ALA4R 1.8.0

• remove method parameter for occurrences() and only use offline method to make download more stable
• rename image_info() to images() and add option to download images
• images() makes use of new ALA images web service
• added occurrence_images() function to retrieve image information and download images using occurrence ids

ALA4R 1.7.0

• remove dependency on RCurl

ALA4R 1.6.3

• changes to API urls (http to https)
• handle new sites_by_species web service

ALA4R 1.6.2

• updates to handle ALA API field changes
• update vignette to be more robust to server outage

ALA4R 1.6.0

• added workaround for occurrences(..., method="offline") to cope with server-side bug (see https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/biocache-service/issues/221)
• package documentation via pkgdown (https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/)
• refreshed package vignette
• change of package maintainer

ALA4R 1.5.10

• bugfixes

ALA4R 1.5.6

• added biocache_version parameter to server configuration, to support use of ALA4R with other server instances (e.g. other national installations using the ALA server infrastructure)
• minor bugfixes

ALA4R 1.5

• updated code,examples and vignette for new ALA taxonomic backbone
• “offline” method added to occurrences(), allowing download of larger datasets with more fields
• fieldguide() function added
• fields=“all” option added to taxinfo_download()
• ala_list() and ala_lists() functions added

ALA4R 1.24

• better handling of text encoding (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/15)

ALA4R 1.23

• added image_number parameter to image_info()

ALA4R 1.21

• added image_info() and occurrence_details() functions

• added extra="all" and qa="all" options to occurrences()

ALA4R 1.20

• fixed as_is behaviour in ala_fields().

• usage of stringr functions now compatible with stringr v1.0.

• parameter occurrence_count added to search_names().

• tests added to tests/testthat.

ALA4R 1.191

• improved parsing of field names in internal function check_fq() (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/13).

ALA4R 1.19

• internal function check_fq() throws a warning not an error if it thinks there is a problem with the fq string (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/13).

ALA4R 1.18

• for improperly classified taxa, the result$classification object returned by species_info() is now a data.frame (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/11).

ALA4R 1.18

• bugfix in species_info() (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/11).