NEWS.md

In rvertnet: Search 'Vertnet', a 'Database' of Vertebrate Specimen Records

rvernet 0.8.2

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• vignette fix

rvertnet 0.8.0

NEW FEATURES

• searchbyterm() and bigsearch() reworked: both functions now have the first parameter as ..., which accepts any valid query parameter. There were so many query parameters for these functions it was a bit overwhelming. See ?searchbyterm docs for details (#66)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• decode the request URL before printing to the R console so users can more easily see what request they have done (#67)
• vignette title fix (#68)

BUG FIXES

• searchbyterm() fix: booleans need to be converted to VertNet's expected 0/1 instead of true/false (#66)

rvertnet 0.7.0

BUG FIXES

• add month and day params to searchbyterm (#64)

rvertnet 0.6.2

BUG FIXES

• A small data source used in one function was on the web, and was moved - that data source now within the pkg as quite small, and now pkg won't break when the file is moved again (#61) (#62)

rvertnet 0.6.0

Added Code of Conduct.

NEW FEATURES

• Now using crul package for HTTP requests instead of httr (#57)
• Note that verbose parameter has been replaced with messages throughout the package.
• Now with function for search for trait data: traitsearch() (#55)

DEFUNCT AND DEPRECATED

• All dump functions are now defunct. Those functions tried to help users work with bulk Vertnet data - the setup has gotten too complex (#56)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improvements to documentation for traitsearch() function on what fields have given data (#58) thanks @gaurav
• vertsearch() and searchbyterm() gain new parameter only_dwc, which allows to optionally only return Darwin Core fields

BUG FIXES

• Small fix to vertsummary() (#59)

rvertnet 0.5.0

NEW FEATURES

• searchbyterm() gains new parameter query to allow full text search, much like vertsearch(), but with the ability to also use all the parameters available in searchbyterm() (#53)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Use dplyr::bind_rows instead of the deprecated dplyr::rbind_all (#51)
• remove personal email address from tests (#52)
• Namespace base R pkg fxn calls (methods/stats/utils), and removed some package dependencies that we didn't really need (plyr) (#54)

rvertnet 0.4.4

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Updated docs to better indicate how to use the cursor feature (#49)
• Now using explicit encoding specification when using httr::content() (#47)

BUG FIXES

• Fixed externalptr error in the internal vert_GET() function (#48)

rvertnet 0.4.1

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug in bigsearch() in which we had forgotten to do internal conversion of logical input to 0/1 needed by the web API (#46)

rvertnet 0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• New set of functions to make working with VertNet data dumps easier. dump_links() gives you links to various data dump resources; dump_init() initialized a SQLite database connection; dump_tbl() creates a dplyr::tbl object, which can then be used in a dplyr query. This setup requires that the user manually download data dumps uncompress, and load into SQLite. We hope to make this process easier in the future. (#36)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixes to vertmap() for new ggplot2 version (#43)
• Added note to docs for bigsearch() for how to read in data after obtaining the data (#44)

BUG FIXES

• Fix to the searchbyterm() function. When the parameter stateprovince was used, lead to error, as that param requires different handling than other params. (#45)

rvertnet 0.3.4

NEW FEATURES

• New function vert_id() to get occurrence records by occurenceid, that is, single occurrence ids. (#40)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Explicitly import non-base R functions (#39)

BUG FIXES

• Lowercase occurenceID to occurrenceid to simplify life (#41)

rvertnet 0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• searchbyterm() and bigsearch() have some parameters that accept multiple values. Fixed to allow this (#37)
• Internals of searchbyterm(), spatialsearch(), and vertsearch() reworked to use cursor so we internally do paging for you for bigger result sets. (#25)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Replaced data.table import with dplyr
• Using skip_on_cran() (#38)
• Minor vignette updates (#35)
• Metadata now returned in data requests (#33)

rvertnet 0.2.2

Package completely reworked for the new VertNet API.

NEW FEATURES

• The functions vertavailablemaps(), vertlocations(), vertoccurrence(), vertoccurrencecount(), vertproviders(), verttaxa() are now defunct. You can call these functions, but they print an error message, saying they are defunct.
• Gained new functions bigsearch(), searchbyterm(), spatialsearch(), and vertsummary().
• Gained new author: Chris Ray

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• RJSONIO replaced with jsonlite
• Changed from CC0 to MIT license

rvertnet 0.0-5

NEW FEATURES

• released to CRAN

rvertnet documentation built on May 14, 2021, 1:07 a.m.