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In ebvcube: Working with netCDF for Essential Biodiversity Variables

ebvcube 0.5.2

Bug fixes

• ebv_create_taxonomy: change 'ebv_spatial_*' to 'ebv_geospatial_*'
• ebv_create_taxonomy: if entity names are NA in the CSV throw error

Minor changes

• ebv_create_taxonomy: update help page regarding taxonomy-key
• changed package maintainer

ebvcube 0.5.1

Minor changes

• ebv_create(_taxonomy): allocate space in cubes during creation, not in in ebv_add_data

Bug fixes

• ebv_create_taxonomy: remove bug in max_char_entity (remove NA)
• ebv_i_utils: remove NA from the char-vectors (taxonomy)
• ebv_i_datacubepath: error if scenario or metric are NA
• ebv_add_data: fillvalue definition was missing

ebvcube 0.5.0

Major changes

• ebv_create_taxonomy:
  • renamed entity_list and entity_levels to entity_taxonomy_table and entity_taxonomy_levels (ebv_properties still reads the old naming for now)
  • remove lsid and replace by taxonomy_key, add attribute to variable which refers to the name of the entity_taxonomy_key of the authority of the taxonomic backbone (long_name)
• ebv_properties:
  • read either from entity_list and entity_levels or entity_taxonomy_table and entity_taxonomy_levels
  • read both: lsid and entity_taxonomy_key

Bug fixes

• set ignore_RAM to TRUE for the tests

ebvcube 0.4.0

Major changes

• renamed metadata terms: 'ebv_spatial_scope' to 'ebv_geospatial_scope' and 'ebv_spatial_description' to 'ebv_geospatial_description'
• ebv_create(_taxonomy): add date_metadata_modified and date_modified
• added new metadata terms: publisher_url, creator_url

Minor changes

• ebv_download: add doi (now available in API)
• ebv_properties: add time_coverage_start and time_coverage_end + date_metadata_modified and date_modified
• add new test-data, update tests regarding updated metadata terms and JSONs

Bug fixes

• ebv_create_taxonomy: remove rhdf5-Na.OK attribute from entity_list
• DelayedArray errors on ubuntu dev

ebvcube 0.3.3

Bug fixes

• update EBV Data Portal website URL

ebvcube 0.3.2

Bug fixes

• add read-only flag to test-file (test-ebv_utils.R)

ebvcube 0.3.1

Bug fixes

• correct old url in News.md

ebvcube 0.3.0

Major changes

• new function: ebv_metadata
• new helper functions: ebv_i_vector_intersect, ebv_i_contained, ebv_i_check_iso_res, ebv_i_check_iso_date
• new Shiny App: ebv_taxonomy_app
• add DOI to ebv_create(_taxonomy) and ebv_properties
• GitHub repo transfer to https://github.com/EBVcube/ebvcube/

Minor changes

• ebv_add_data: add argument 'raw' to ignore scale and offset values

Bug fixes

• ebv_download: corrected ID-missmatch when giving ID by title
• ebv_map: fix color scales, fix bug 'length of breaks and labels differ', add scenario to subtitle
• ebv_properties: ensure that metric or datacube argument is given

ebvcube 0.2.3

Bug fixes

• edit test file for ebv_download: make sure the portal website is up
• new helper function: ebv_i_check_url

ebvcube 0.2.1

Bug fixes

• remove old url of codecov from badge

ebvcube 0.2.0

Major changes

• all (affected) functions: define timestep(s) also as an ISO formatted date
• add new arguments: define metric and scenario by name & index instead of the datacubepath
• new function: ebv_create_taxonomy including new utils function ebv_i_char_variable
• add taxonomy-info the ebv_properties
• ebv_create(_taxonomy): if one timestep but start and end date differ, apply end date

Bug fixes

• ebv_map: remove outdated stuff from guide_bins
• ebv_write: DelayedArray 'name' variable was not defined

ebvcube 0.1.7

Major changes

• ebv_download: download via DOI
• ebv_create: lon and lat units changed (see below)
• EBVcube format: geospatial units: 'degrees'/'meters' to 'degree'/'meter'
• ebv_download: return path of netCDF file also if it is already downloaded

Bug fixes

• remove ebv_i_file_opened from the functions
• ebv_read: read-access only

ebvcube 0.1.6

Major changes

• ebv_resample: added more methods
• ebv_create: lower compression to 5
• ebv_download: return path
• ebv_map: col_rev does not reverse the numbers in the legend

Bug fixes

• ebv_download: fix the internet check
• ebv_add_data: array data error (transpose)
• ebv_attribtue: change 'coordinate' to 'coordinates' (black-list attribute)

ebvcube 0.1.4

Major changes

• ebv_properties: speed up for nc with many entities

Bug fixes

• ebv_datacubepaths: implement CRAN feedback - read-only flag was missing at one point

ebvcube 0.1.3

Major changes

• ebv_trend: alter trend-plot (dashed-lines, subtitle)
• ebv_map: correct the display of binary maps
• ebv_create: implemented paleo and irregular dates netCDFs (terranova)
• ebv_create: correct typo: coordinates instead of coordinate for entity coordinate
• ebv_properties: remove backwards compatibility to old standard (before ACDD)
• replaced h5ls by h5dump to make ebv_properties and ebv_datacubepaths faster
• ebv_properties: rename 'timesteps_natural' to 'dates' (changes across functions)

Bug fixes

• ebv_create: contributor_name, content coverage type and domain corrected (comma + white space)
• ebv_i_file_opened: solve error on MAC OS (CRAN)
• ebv_i_eval_epsg: suppress warning by terra when assigning a crs (test error). #23 by Roger Bivand

ebvcube 0.1.2

Major changes

• implement CRAN feedback (ebv_i_file_opened (lsof to fuser), examples and test (writing to user library))

Bug fixes

• ebv_create: keywords for spatial_scope
• ebv_attribute: ebv_cube attributes connected to metric (changes over all scenarios)

ebvcube 0.1.1

Major changes

• implement CRAN feedback (examples(dontrun))

Bug fixes

ebvcube 0.1.0

Major changes

• using ggplot2 for plots
• using terra for geospatial operations (removing dependencies: gdalUtils, rgdal, raster and sp)

Bug fixes

ebvcube 0.0.1

First version of the package

ebvcube documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:24 p.m.