finbif v0.5.0

NEW FEATURES

• Getting records from FinBIF can now be speed up (~1.5x) with
  asynchronous processing. If the future package is available and an
  asynchronous strategy (e.g., plan(multisession, workers = 2)) is
  selected then downloading records and processing them will occur
  simultaneously in separate threads, often leading to a significant
  speed up over sequential processing.

• Occurrence records can now be requested using multiple sets of
  filters at the same time. If a list of filters (with unnamed
  elements) is supplied then a record request will be made for each
  set of filters and the results of all requests combined and all
  duplicate records removed.

• Occurrence records can now be read directly from FinBIF download
  request files. The function finbif_occurrence_load can load data
  from a local file or remotely using a persistent identifier URI
  (e.g., http://tun.fi/HBF.49381).

• Aggregation of records can now be performed at the recording "event"
  level as well as the "record" level.

finbif v0.4.1

NEW FEATURES

• New functions scientific_name and common_name are now available
  to get scientific and common names for taxa (given a taxon name or
  FinBIF ID code) or extract names from a finbif_taxa- class object.

• Add ability to extract complex record variables such as those
  associated with record media (currently undocumented).

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Collection name can be selected as a variable for occurrence
  records. Previously it had to be manually translated from collection
  ID.

• Variables restriction_reasons_conservation,
  restriction_reason_embargo and restriction_reason_custom are no
  longer in use upstream and can no longer be selected.

finbif v0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• Occurrence record requests can now be made with aggregation,
  aggregate = c("records", "species", "taxa"). This returns the
  number of records, and/or species or taxa for each combination of
  the selected variables instead of the occurrence records themselves.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Error is triggered when attempting to request less than one record.

• New content on requesting aggregated occurrence records added to
  vignette: 2. Occurrence records from FinBIF.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed two bugs in print method for FinBIF occurrence records that
  were triggered when attempting to print only one row of data.

• Fixed bug triggering error when attempting to print occurrence
  record objects with zero rows.

• Fixed bug triggered when trying to print occurrence record data with
  NA values.

• Fixed bug causing incorrect subsetting of occurrence records when
  using logical vectors to subset rows.

• Fixed bug that printed occurrence records with multi-element data
  incorrectly when there was a single element.

• Fixed bug triggered by some system locales (#1).

finbif v0.3.1

NEW FEATURES

• Occurrence records can be ordered by the total number of records or
  total number of Finnish records of the taxon (variables:
  n_total_records & n_total_finnish_records, currently
  undocumented).

• New Finnish occurrence status, records_only, added.

• New administrative statuses added to filters.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Filtering vignette updated to reflect changes to data quality
  filters.

finbif v0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• All user facing functions with a finbif_ prefix can now also be
  used with the alternative shorter prefix fb_.

• Crop Wild Relative, CWR, added to admin statuses.

• There are two new utility functions, to_dwc and to_native for
  converting variable names to and from Darwin Core style.

• Users can select and order by variables in Darwin Core style when
  using finbif_occurrence.

• Some changes in variables and filters have flowed from upstream
  changes to "api.laji.fi". The variables is_unidentifiable,
  record_reliable, collection_reliability, taxon_reliability,
  taxon_reliability_message and taxon_reliability_source have been
  deprecated and replaced with requires_verification,
  requires_identification, record_reliability and
  record_quality. The filters collection_reliability and
  taxon_reliability have been deprecated and replaced with
  requires_verification, collection_quality, record_reliability,
  record_quality, and expert_verified.

• Vernacular names are now localised. Users can select a language to
  use for taxon vernacular names. Missing names will fallback
  gracefully to other languages. A package-wide locale can be set and
  is by default set to the system locale (if not set or can't be
  determined it will default to English).

• New vignettes on getting occurrence records, selecting and ordering
  variables, metadata and plotting have been added.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Caching defaults to in memory caching instead of relying on the
  temporary directory.

• Front matter of vignettes is now visible when using the R help
  browser.

• Retired "quiet" option for "on_check_fail" argument in function
  finbif_occurrence().

• Improved error messages when taxa fail checking in
  finbif_occurrence().

• Global option to set timezone, "finbif_tz", as default value for
  "tzone" argument to finbif_occurrence(). Avoids having to set
  system environment variable TZ or specify "tzone" every time
  finbif_occurrence() is run.

• Now when a record has no time information the start time is assumed
  to be midday. Previous behaviour was to assume start time was
  midnight, making errors potentially biased.

• Package options are now documented in the package level man page.

• News file is now accessible via R internal help system.

• The number of default variables selected when accessing occurrence
  records has been reduced to speed up downloads and improve the
  display of finbif_occ objects.

• The print method for occurrence record objects has been updated. It
  is now aware of console width and when truncating variable values is
  more considerate of the context.

• Variables can now be "deselected" when using the select argument
  to finbif_occurrence by prepending the variable name with a "-".

• After some failures, API requests are now automatically retried up
  to three times.

BUG FIXES

• Ordering by descending variables did not work when ordering by both
  ascending and descending variables.

• Fixed bug in handling of duplicates that could result in an infinite
  recursion.

• Fixed bug that (when "on_check_fail" = "warn") all taxa failed
  checks 'finbif_occurrence()' would proceed as if no taxa had been
  selected.

• Fixed bug in print method for finbif_occ objects that caused error
  when trying to display a single column objects with a list-col only.

finbif v0.2.0

NEW FEATURES

• Add capacity to request a random sample of FinBIF records.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Add more content to vignettes.

finbif v0.1.0

INITIAL RELEASE