NEWS.md

In pepijn-devries/ECOTOXr: Download and Extract Data from US EPA's ECOTOX Database

ECOTOXr v1.2.1.0001

• Added Code of Conduct

ECOTOXr v1.2.1

• Improved test coverage
• Fixed error in units conversion

ECOTOXr v1.2.0

• Added data sanitisers process_ecotox_numerics(), as_numeric_ecotox(), process_ecotox_units(), as_unit_ecotox(), process_ecotox_dates() and as_date_ecotox()
• Expanded the documentation with vignettes
• Fixed check upon attach
• Correction in database specifications
• Improved test coverage
• Tested against 2025-03-13 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr v1.1.1

• Added pkgdown generated website
• Updated documentation
• Updated database specifications for 2024-09-12 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr v1.0.9

• switched from the 'magrittr' pipe operator (%>%) to R's native pipe operator (|>)
• switched from 'httr' to 'httr2' dependency
• Added functions to check the local build and its version
• Fix in database build routine
• Fix in manual to pass CRAN checks
• Explicit mentioning of required versions of dependencies

ECOTOXr v1.0.5

• Added verify_ssl argument to online functions in order to make it easier to try and avert failing certificate checks.
• Minor fix in CAS handlers

ECOTOXr v1.0.3

• Adjustments to pass latest CRAN checks

ECOTOXr v1.0.2

• Fixes for 2023 June release of the database:
  • Handling of new fields and tables introduced in the new release.
  • Better handler unintended line-feed characters in source material, when building SQLite file.
  • When table primary key is not unique, update table with latest occurrence of the key. This is also reported to EPA.
• Keeping track of missing tables and fields, and occurrence of unexpected fields while building. These are added to the build log file.

ECOTOXr v1.0.1

• Experimental features for online searching of ECOTOX and CompTox
• Switched to roxygen2md for documentation and markdown format for NEWS
• Added life-cycle badges
• Some minor fixes in the SQLite building routine after the December 2022 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr v0.2.0

• Major changes:
  • Modified searching routines to make advantage of the sql parser and optimisers implemented in the package 'dplyr'. Performance (i.e. speed) of the search routines have improved considerably.
  • Added support for handling Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers.
• Several minor adjustments and corrections to code and manual. These include fixes to address notes from CRAN checks.

ECOTOXr v0.1.1

• Updates to DESCRIPTION file and manual in order to comply with CRAN policies.
• Function progress reports are now shown with 'message' instead of 'cat', such that they can be suppressed.

ECOTOXr v0.1.0

• Initial release which can:
  • Download raw ECOTOX database tables from the EPA website
  • Build an SQLite database from those files
  • Search and extract data from the created local database

pepijn-devries/ECOTOXr documentation built on April 17, 2025, 11:40 p.m.