NEWS.md

In zhangcandrew/rdataretriever: R Interface to the Data Retriever

rdataretriever 1.1.0

NEW COAUTHORS

• We welcome Pranita Sharma and David J. Harris as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Pranita and David!

NEW FEATURES

• Use reticulate to integrate with retriever Python
• Spatial dataset processing Beta version using PostGis

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Use Docker compose for testing
• Switch to Python 3 for testing
• Enhance path search on Windows
• Add a debug script for reporting the environment variables
• Update documentation to match latest version
• Add license file

rdataretriever 1.0.0

NEW PACKAGE NAME

• The EcoData Retriever has been renamed to Data Retriever to reflect its utility outside of ecological data and consequently we have renamed the R package from ecoretriever to rdataretriever

NEW COAUTHORS

• We welcome Henry Senyondo and Shawn Taylor as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Henry and Shawn!

NEW FEATURES

• Add reset which allows a user to delete all the Data Retriever downloaded files
• Add json and xml as output options

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Accommodate new retriever naming conventions in fetch
• Don't change the class or return the update log
• Specify in documentation which functions are for internal use.
• Change dataset names in source and README.md

BUG FIXES

• Search for Anaconda installs of the Data Retriever
• Obtain correct home path in RStudio on Windows

ecoretriever 0.3.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improve documentation for using the connection file

BUG FIXES

• Fix issues with running on some Windows machines by using shell() instead of system() on Windows
• Fix new --subdir functionality (released in 0.2.2)

ecoretriever 0.2

NEW FEATURES We added a new function get_updates which can be used to update the retriever scripts. This is a big improvement for users because it avoids automatically updating the scripts every time the package is imported. The log of the scripts update can be printed in a cleaner format as well. Added support for maintaining subdirectory structure when using the function download.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• default data_dir argument is now set to working directory rather than NULL for the function install()

BUG FIXES

• On windows machine if the data directory was not specified for a dataset install an error would occur. Now the dataset directory is always specified in external calls to retriever install ...

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