NEWS

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occCite 0.5.8 (2024-09-05)

• Moved taxize package to Suggests, as it is now orphaned.
• studyTaxonList() allows user to skip taxonomic rectification, which relies on functions from taxize package. studyTaxonList() automatically skips taxonomic rectification if taxize is unavailable.

occCite 0.5.7 (2024-06-23)

• Fixed warning in occCitation() when getting GBIF citations
• Updated date formatting using format() instead of as.character()
• Updated test files to incorporate rgbif 3.8.0 output changes, make more efficient
• In occResults, renamed "Dataset", "DatasetKey", and "DataService" to "datasetName", "datasetKey", "dataService", respectively.
• Made an option for removing package citations

occCite 0.5.6 (2022-08-05)

• Added "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters" column in processed occurrence results table.

occCite 0.5.5

• Further adjustment in testing to be CRAN-compatible

occCite 0.5.4 (2022-03-21)

• Adjustment to testing strategy to comply with CRAN policies.
• Links changed to reflect inclusion on ROpenSci.

occCite 0.5.2 (2022-03-04)

• Resubmission after archiving due to dependency archiving.
• Functions that rely on getting data from servers via an internet connection now behave more gracefully and informatively when the server cannot be reached.

occCite 0.5.1 (2021-11-01)

• Minor update to fix a server connection timeout error.

occCite 0.5.0 (2021-10-13)

• Legends for source waffle plots are now wrapped to enhance readability.
• Now fails more gracefully if servers cannot be reached.

occCite 0.4.9 (2021-07-23)

• In gbifRetriever, changed rgbif::name_suggests to rgbif::name_backbone. More robust for our purposes.
• Now fills in "Dataset" column in GBIF search results from GBIF citation information.
• No longer throws out GBIF occurrences with missing day and month information.

occCite 0.4.8 (2021-06-11)

• Fixed problem with occCitation that caused an error when dataset keys had no associated BIEN data.

occCite 0.4.7 (2021-04-27)

• Internal logic made more robust to various error scenarios.
• Now warns user if no taxonomic matches exist for a given name (but doesn't crash!).

occCite 0.4.6 (2021-02-21)

• Taxonomic sources were renamed in the Global Names Resolver.

occCite 0.4.5 (2020-11-28)

• sumFig() function is now a plot method for objects of class occCiteData.
• map.occCite() has been renamed occCiteMap() to avoid confusion with existing method naming conventions.

occCite 0.4.0 (2020-10-21)

• Removed a package dependency that was causing warnings on some systems.
• Adjusted function behaviors to more gracefully handle species with no occurrences returned from a search.

occCite 0.3.0 (2020-10-06)

• Updated to meet CRAN reviewer guidelines
• Citations now include packages used.

occCite 0.2.0

• Updated to reflect new object structures returned by searches with update rgbif, version 3.1.
• Examples updated to permit testing when possible.

occCite 0.1.0

• Version submitted for evaluation in Ebbe Nielsen Challenge.

occCite 0.0.0

• The package now works.