NEWS.md

In CornellLabofOrnithology/auk: eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

auk 0.8.0

• update for 2024 taxonomy
• added a helper function for processing bar chart data from eBird process_barcharts()

auk 0.7.0

• update for 2023 eBird taxonomy
• no need to restart after setting AWK and EBD paths
• retain breeding codes in auk_zerofill()
• changes to conform with deprecation of .data$ in tidyselect expressions
• changes to package-level documentation in roxygen2
• removed non-ASCII characters from datasets

auk 0.6.0

• update for 2022 eBird taxonomy

auk 0.5.2

• added an extinct column to taxonomy

auk 0.5.1

• drop data.table dependency, no longer needed with readr speed improvements
• fix bug arising from 'breeding bird atlas code' being renamed to 'breeding code' (issue #58)

auk 0.5.0

• update to align with 2021 eBird taxonomy

auk 0.4.4

• updates to align with readr 2.0

auk 0.4.3

• get_ebird_taxonomy() now fails gracefully when eBird API is not accessible, fixing the CRAN check errors https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_auk.html

auk 0.4.2

• new auk_county() filter
• new auk_year() filter
• Drop taxonomy warnings since there was no taxonomy update this year

auk 0.4.1

• Family common names now included in eBird taxonomy
• auk_select() now requires certain columns to be kept
• Better handling of file paths with prefix argument in auk_split()
• Fixed bug causing undescribed species to be dropped by auk_rollup()
• Add a ll_digits argument to filter_repeat_visits() to round lat/lng prior to identifying sites
• Change of default parameters to filter_repeat_visits()
• auk_bbox() now takes sf/raster spatial objects and grabs bbox from them

auk 0.4.0

• Updated to 2019 eBird taxonomy
• auk_observer() filter added
• tidyr::complete_() deprecated, stopped using

auk 0.3.3

• Dates can now wrap in auk_date(), e.g. use date = c("*-12-01", "*-01-31") for records from December or January
• Fixed bug preventing dropping of age/sex column
• Allow for a wider variety of protocols in auk_protocol()
• Addresing some deprecated functions from rlang
• Fixed bug causing auk_set_awk_path() to fail

auk 0.3.2

• Work around for bug in system2() in some R versions: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17508
• Adding a filter for PROALAS checklists to auk_protocol()

auk 0.3.1

• rlang::UQ() and rlang::UQS() deprecated, switching to !! and !!!
• auk_unique() now keeps track of all sampling event and observer IDs that comprise a group checklist

auk 0.3.0

• Updated to 2018 taxonomy; new function get_ebird_taxonomy() to get taxonomy via the eBird API
• Better handling of taxonomy versions, many functions now take a taxonomy_version argument and use the eBird API to get the taxonomy
• auk_getpath() renamed auk_get_awk_path(), and added auk_set_awk_path()
• Added auk_set_ebd_path() and auk_get_ebd_path() to set and get the EBD_PATH environment variable. Now users only need to set this once and just refer to the file name, rather than specifying the full path every time.
• Functions to prepare data for occupancy modeling: filter_repeat_visits() and format_unmarked_occu()
• New auk_bcr() function to extract data from BCRs
• Added bcr_codes data frame to look up BCR names and codes
• "Area" protocol added to auk_protocol() filter.
• auk_extent() renamed auk_bbox(); auk_extent() deprecated and redirects to auk_bbox()
• auk_zerofill() now checks for complete checklists and gives option to not rollup
• auk_rollup() now gives the option of keeping higher taxa via drop_higher argument
• auk_clean() deprecated
• Fixed package load error when EBD_PATH is invalid
• Fixed bug when reading files with a blank column using readr

auk 0.2.2

• Updated to work with EDB version 1.9
• Modified tests to be more general to all sample data
• ebird_species() now returns 6-letter species codes
• Fixed bug causing auk to fail on files downloaded via custom download form
• Fixed bug with normalizePath() use on Windows
• Fixed bug with system2() on Windows

auk 0.2.1

• Patch release fixing a couple bugs
• Removed all non-ASCII characters from example files, closes issue #14
• Fixed issue with state filtering not working, closes issue $16

auk 0.2.0

• New function, auk_split(), splits EBD up into multiple files by species
• New object, auk_sampling, and associated methods for working with the sampling data only
• New function, auk_select(), for selecting a subset of columns
• auk_date() now allows filtering date ranges across years using wildcards, e.g. date = c("*-05-01", "*-06-30") for observations from May and June of any year
• New function, auk_state() for filtering by state
• Now using AWK arrays to speed up country and species filtering; ~20% speed up when filtering on many species/countries
• Allow selection of a subset of columns when filtering
• Remove free text columns in auk_clean() to decrease file size
• Updated to work with Feb 2018 version of EBD
• Fixed broken dependency on countrycode package

auk 0.1.0

• eBird taxonomy update to August 2017 version, users should download the most recent EBD to ensure the taxonomy is in sync with the new package
• Manually set AWK path with environment variable AWK_PATH in .Renviron file
• auk_distance, auk_breeding, auk_protocol, and auk_project filters added
• Users can now specify a subset of columns to return when calling auk_filter using the keep and drop arguments
• Many changes suggested by rOpenSci package peer review process, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/136 for details
• New vignette added to aid those wanting to contribute to package development

auk 0.0.2

• Patch release converting ebird_taxonomy to ASCII to pass CRAN checks

auk 0.0.1

• First CRAN release

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