NEWS.md

In florabr: Explore Flora e Funga do Brasil Database

florabr 1.3.0 (September 2024)

New Features and Enhancements

• The package now distinguishes species, subspecies and varieties.
• get_binomial allows extracting infraspecific epithet (subspecie or variety).
• get_synonym() allows returns the subspecies and varieties that are synonyms of a species
• check_names() supports parallel processing.
• Fix bugs and improve performance of filter_florabr(), get_pam(), get_synonym() and solve_discrepancies() functions.
• Update data example: added varieties and subspecies to the dataset.
• get_florabr(): Added argument to remove unnecessary downloaded files.
• Added package citation to the paper describing the package.

florabr 1.2.0 (May 2024)

New Features and Enhancements

• Dataset names have been updated in functions and documentation to reflect the new phase of the project, now known as Flora e Funga do Brasil.
• Introducing the get_synonym() function, which retrieves synonyms for species.
• Introducing the solve_discrepancies() function, designed to resolve inconsistencies between species and subspecies/varieties information.
• The get_florabr() function now integrates the solve_discrepancies() function to address discrepancies when the solve_discrepancy parameter is set to TRUE.
• Fixed a bug with get_binomial related to species whose Genus or Specific epithet contains '-' or '×' characters.
• Improved handling of whitespace in get_binomial, addressing leading, trailing, and between words.
• The filtering procedure in select_species() and get_attributes() is now case insensitive, treating uppercase and lowercase letters as equivalent.
• Updated data example (bf_data) to use a subset of version 393.401 of the Brazilian Flora database.
• get_attributes() now supports more than one attribute and returns a list with the available options for each attribute.
• Removed Attributes data, as it is no longer necessary for get_attributes() to function.
• Short version of data loaded with load_florabr now incorporates three additional columns: phylum, class, and order.
• The select_species function now allows filtering by phylum, class, and order.
• Updated README, DESCRIPTION and vignettes to include descriptions of the new functions and modifications.

Testing

• Added test_that statements for all functions.

florabr 1.1.0 (March 2024)

• get_florabr now fixes inconsistencies between species and subspecies/varieties information
• Introducing get_pam function, which converts a dataframe containing species distribution information into a presence-absence matrix.
• Added a new vignette providing a detailed description of the get_pam function and its usage.

florabr 1.0.0 (November 2023)

• Initial CRAN submission.

florabr documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 9:10 p.m.