traitdataform 0.5.7

• Preparing for R 4.0.0 change to read.table() and data.frame(): handling of factor data (trait and taxon names) is now locale-independent
• updating download links for Data Dryad

traitdataform 0.5.6

• fix broken data calls to datadryad.org

traitdataform 0.5.5

• upgrading vignette to knitr v1.23 upon request of CRAN

traitdataform 0.5.4

• enforce UTF-8 environment in Latin-1 locale now works for

traitdataform 0.5.3 (released on CRAN 2019-04-16)

• character issues in strict Latin-1 locale have been resolved (apostrophe and en-dash)
• a dependency on an external resource (ETS.csv) is now static.

traitdataform 0.5.2 (released on CRAN 30.12.2018)

• solve minor compliance issues with CRAN: use LICENSE template

traitdataform 0.5.1

• thorough spell-checking
• set heavy examples to ‘dontrun’

traitdataform 0.5.0 (released 04.12.2018)

stable, for submission on CRAN. From this point on, backwards compatibility will be maintained.

minor changes (since v0.4):

• complete package vignette
• improved unit handling
• solid demo data import

traitdataform 0.4.4

• finalize vignette (include section on writing data)

traitdataform 0.4.3

• update rbind.traitdataform() to specify metadata handling

traitdataform 0.4.2

• finalize package vignette
• simplify demo data calls
• fix handling of measurementID as factor
• fix return of output in standardize()

traitdataform 0.4.1

• update package vignette
• fix print methods
• fix thesaurus function
• set helper functions internal (not exported)
• fix file import for carabids

traitdataform 0.4.0 (released 26.11.2018)

bugfixes

• fix locale issues with pulldata() on linux (still not solved on Mac OS X)
• eliminate dependency on ‘reshape’ package

Minor changes

• the functions cast.traitdata() and mutate.traitdata() now support units.

traitdataform 0.3.4

• update as.trait() and as.thesaurus() as well as print methods
• update dependencies on units()

traitdataform 0.3.3

• rename and update standardize_taxa() <- standardize.taxonomy()
• rename standardize_traits() <- standardize.traits()
• fix environment issues with pulldata()

traitdataform 0.3.1

• clean rewrite of get_gbif_taxonomy()
• test_that implementation
• Travis CI implementation
• add Code of Conduct and CONTRIBUTING

traitdataform 0.3.0

• solve all errors, warnings and notes on R CHECK
• complete man pages
  
• fix matching bug for get_gbif_taxonomy()

traitdataform 0.2.6

• fix function mutate.traitdata() (remove method dependency to dplyr)
• update documentation for as.trait()
• successful build of vignette

traitdataform 0.2.5

• fix export of get_gbif_taxonomy()
• handle subspecies and superspecies cases
• handle warnings in taxon mapping output
• update documentation on taxon mapping

traitdataform 0.2.4

• fix export of standardize.exploratories() to include all columns by default.
• start fixing install warnings

traitdataform 0.2.3

• fixing broken NAMESPACE export
• update documentation website

traitdataform 0.2.2

• fix bug in standardize.taxonomy(): reset row.names.
• update data attributes in dataset carabids for handling in as.traitdata().

traitdataform 0.2.1

• add function as.metadata() for templating of metadata into an object class, including method print.metadata()
• update as.traitdata, print.traitdata, rbind.traitdata to make use of as.metadata
• provide metadata and thesaurus as attributes in data object ‘carabids’
• update as.traitdata(): enable forwarding of attributes of input object (for metadata etc. )

traitdataform 0.2

Major changes

• updated terms to traitdata standard v0.6.
• datasets are not loaded by default, but wait for a prompt using data(). Also added documentation for all datasets and added more datasets.
  
• adding function method rbind.traitdata() for merging standardised datasets into a unified table. includes handling of metadata object in attributes
• metadata can be stored in the attributes of a dataset and will be preserved when updating the dataset. Information will be handled when merging or combining multiple datasets.
• trait thesauri can be added more easily from a data frame or from a list of ‘trait’ objects.

Minor changes

• update vignette: add section on merging and combining data.
• added print methods for traits and thesaurus objects.

traitdataform 0.1.7

Major changes

• add function standardize.exploratories() to extract georeference data for a plotID.
• add function read.service() (provided by Dennis Heimann & Andreas Ostrowski) for access of datasets on BExIS. I added a secure masked prompt using the ‘getPass’ package.

Bug fixes

• Spelling of ‘occurrence’