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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.
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.
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.
Add capacity to request a random sample of FinBIF records.
Add more content to vignettes.
Initial release.