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Source: NEWS.md

naturecounts 0.5.1

  • Expose iao_buffer argument to allow users to change from the 500 km buffer to a custom amount. Useful for oceanic islands out of the range of Natural Earth’s map of Canada (fixes #53).

naturecounts 0.5.0

  • Generalize cosewic_ranges() (fixes #40)
    • argument species now deprecated in favour of group
    • Add option to supply custom IAO grid to cosewic_ranges()
    • Add option to clip EOO in cosewic_ranges() to a particular shapefile before calculating area
    • Add option to change the CRS
    • Update default CRS for cosewic_ranges() to an Albers Equal Area Projection for Canada (ESRI:102001)
    • Use a general prop_include = 1 rather than eoo_p = 1 and default to 1 rather than 0.95.
  • Make cosewic_plot()s report-ready (fixes #41)
    • Add option to scale records in cosewic_plot()
    • Add North arrow and scale to cosweic_plot()
    • Add option to change the CRS
    • Add more details to cosewic_plot() caption
  • Change API to naturecounts.ca (#29)
  • Fix bug with request ids where tried to download unapproved collections (#32)
  • Clarify metadata (fixes #30
    • Clarify metadata versions as dates
    • Clarify which metadata is stored locally
    • Add checks and warn users if local metadata >4 weeks old
  • Make ‘extended’ the default field set (#31)
  • Explicitly alert users if format_zero_fill() used when there are ‘X’ values (#8)

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