NEWS.md

In ISAAKiel/c14bazAAR: Download and Prepare C14 Dates from Different Source Databases

5.1.0

• added getter function for xronos database: get_xronos
• applied various technical changes to avoid warnings about deprecated functionality in dependencies
• small changes in the data processing of get_palmisano and get_bda, specifically in joins across source tables - causes minimal changes to the result of these functions

5.0.0

• removed the databases radon and radon-b and replaced it with the new, merged database rado.nb
• deprecated get_radon and get_radonb
• added a new function get_rado.nb
• updated 14cpalaeolithic to the new version v31
• fixed an issue with a unicode character in the format function that was called in the plot function and failed in R v4.4.0; just replaced the longer dash \u2015 with -

4.1.0

• added getter function for neonetatl database: get_neonetatl
• small improvements to get_neonet
• removed unnecessary Suggests: dependencies lwgeom and rgeos

4.0.0

• deprecated get_context - this database is not available any more online
• slightly reorganized the raw data storage to make it more clear which information is still relevant
• defined some NA strings for get_neonet
• reformatted the database list in the README; it now includes the database version available through c14bazAAR

3.4.2

• added getter function for neonet database: get_neonet

3.4.1

• updated get_14cpalaeolithic to use v29 of the source database
• added an additional message to get_c14data on how to prevent download timeouts
• minor refactoring

3.4.0

• added getter function for p3k14c database: get_p3k14c

3.3.0

• made the default plot function a bit more powerful (#154)

3.2.1

• simplified many getter functions by replacing the explicit column classes definition with a general colClasses = "character", which should do exactly the same (#153)

3.2.0

• added getter function for sard database: get_sard

3.1.0

• added getter function for aida database: get_aida
• adjusted getter function for the nerd database (get_nerd)

3.0.1

• updated get_14cpalaeolithic to be compatible with the latest respective database version v.28

3.0.0

• deprecated classify_material
• deprecated fix_database_country_name

2.4.2

• fixed an encoding issue in get_pacea

2.4.1

• some tiny fixes
• added an informative figure to the README

2.4.0

• added getter function for agrichange database: get_agrichange
• added getter function for caribbean database: get_caribbean

2.3.0

• deprecated get_emedyd, because the emedyd database was superseded by the nerd database

2.2.0

• added getter function for rxpand database: get_rxpand

2.1.0

• added getter function for NERD database: get_nerd
• added getter function for BDA database: get_bda

2.0.0

• the default lookup tables are now stored in the package and not downloaded from Github any more (#128)
• some changes in the internal functioning of the lookup methods (#128)
• introduced inspect_lookup_country and inspect_lookup_material which replace the automatic printing in fix_database_country_name and classify_material (#128)

1.3.3

• modified variable reference table layout (#126)

1.3.2

• added submission ToDo list to README (#124)
• defined version update schema in README (#124)

1.3.1

• filtered out TL dates from aDRAC in parser function (#123)

1.3.0

general changes

• added a CITATION file (see citation("c14bazAAR"))
• deprecated mark_duplicates to get rid of this extra step. You can get the same result now with remove_duplicates(mark_only = TRUE) (#100)
• deprecated coordinate_precision. The functionality was not essential and the calculated precision values probably frequently misleading. Beyond that the name was confusing (#96) (#106)
• deprecated finalize_country_name. This wrapper function was rather confusing and the functionality can be very easily be reimplemented if necessary (#96) (#106)
• renamed standardize_country_name to fix_database_country_name to make more clear what it does (#96) (#106)
• switched from openxlsx to readxl & writexl for handling xlsx files (#105) (#111)
• allowed for different calibration curves in calibrate (#118)

new getter functions

• added getter function for MesoRAD database: get_mesorad (#112)
• added getter function for Katsianis et al. database: get_katsianis (#103)
• added getter function for PACEA database: get_pacea (#90)
• added getter function for 14C-Palaeolithic database: get_14cpalaeolithic (#90)
• added getter function for MedAfriCarbon database: get_medafricarbon (#95)
• added getter function for Jōmon population dynamics database: get_jomon (#95)
• added getter function for emedyd database: get_emedyd (#102)

database updates

• updated the CalPal database from version 2017_04_27 to 2020_08_20 (#108)

bugfixes

• lwgeom::st_make_valid was replaced by sf::st_make_valid (#99)
• enabled UTF-8 characters in country thesaurus (#96) (#104)
• plot.c14_date_list does not choke any more on c14_date_lists without coordinate columns (#112)
• fixed some entries in the country thesaurus

1.2.0

general changes

• unified database names in all functions, tables, variables and documentation (#86)
• new logo and some layout changes in the README (#81)

new features

• added a basic plot function for c14_date_lists (#82)
• added a basic write function for c14_date_lists: write_c14() (#84)
• added a version column that documents from which database version a certain date is pulled (#85)

1.1.0

general changes

• ROpenSci review
• moved main development repository to github/ropensci/c14bazAAR (e0e6827f0381be04c50380eec277c01cad44ac7d)
• created c14bazAAR project on the OSF platform with a DOI
• more work on an article for the Journal of Open Source Software (paper.md + paper.bib)
• changed citation to JOSS article after its publication

new features

• new download interface as suggested by Enrico Crema in the ROpenSci review: get_c14data() (#76)
• replaced hard coded URLs with arguments to get helper functions (caabcb7b)

new getter functions

• added getter function for irdd database: get_irdd (#79)

1.0.3

general changes

• reformatted authors in DESCRIPTION and added ORCIDs (#72)
• added a citation section to the README
• added a checklist to the README on how to add new getter functions
• work on an article for the Journal of Open Source Software (paper.md + paper.bib)
• added a vignette with some plotting workflows
• created a completely artificial example dataset that replaces the sampled version

new getter functions

• added getter function for Palmisano et al. database: get_palmisano (#59)
• added getter function for eubar database: get_eubar (#64)

new features

• added new options for the deduplication function (see ?duplicates) (#63)
• added an internal function clean_labnr to the as.c14_date_list workflow to fix certain syntactically wrong representations of lab numbers in several input databases as part of the downloading process (#61)
• better implementation of the c14_date_list as a subclass of tibble for a better integration of the subclass into the tidyverse (#67)

bugfixes

• small file path construction fix in context getter function
• replaced some deprecated functions by other packages (dplyr::funs & tibble::as.tibble)
• replaced RCurl::url.exists with httr::http_error in check_connection_to_url (#68)
• fixed as.sf error that occurred when date lists with dates without coordinates were transformed

removed objects

• data objects c14bazAAR::country_thesaurus, c14bazAAR::material_thesaurus, c14bazAAR::variable-reference have been removed from the package -- they are queried from here anyway and it's not necessary to put them into the package
• some helper functions have been made internal
• .Rd files for unexported, internal objects have been removed (@noRd)

1.0.2

Release version

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