NEWS.md

In BirdStudiesCanada/naturecounts: Access and download data on plant and animal populations from NatureCounts

naturecounts 0.4.1

• Fix use of species_id and record_id in cosewic_ranges().
• Truly allow different columns
• Also allow no species_id or record_id columns

naturecounts 0.4.0

• Add tools for COSEWIC assessments
• Fix bug in search_species() which returned all authorities
• Updated dependency to dplyr 1.1.0
• Updated tests to testthat 3rd edition
• Re-wrote internal requests formatting to improve speed
• nc_dl_data() returns a warning (not an error) if there are no data for the given set of filters (to facilitate looping downloads)
• Warn (not error) when database has been created with an older version of the package

naturecounts 0.3.0

• Add nc_query_table() for arbitrary and custom table queries
• Implement in-memory query caching (lasts 4 hours or until session restarts)
• Added nc_remove_cache() to remove the in-memory cache as needed

naturecounts 0.2.3

• switch back to regular server (not sandbox)
• use house finches as example data frame rather than barred owls

naturecounts 0.2.2

• Arrange returned data fields more sensibly

naturecounts 0.2.1

• Fixed bug with data extraction for nc_data_dl() and nc_counts()

naturecounts 0.2.0

• Clarified access in nc_counts()
• Added extra event columns to format_zero_fill()
• No funny dates in Databases and no warnings for data frames when missing survey_year, survey_month or survey_day in format_dates()

naturecounts 0.1.0

• Initial package development

BirdStudiesCanada/naturecounts documentation built on April 13, 2025, 5:48 p.m.