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Source: NEWS.md

ebirdst 3.2022.4

  • add capability to download and load data coverage layers
  • Northern Goshawk species code was incorrect
  • on some VPNs downloading from https raises an error, switch to http in these cases

ebirdst 3.2022.3

CRAN release: 2024-03-05

  • arrow is back on CRAN, move from Suggests back to Imports
  • add 6 new species for Australia

ebirdst 3.2022.2

CRAN release: 2024-02-23

ebirdst 3.2022.1

CRAN release: 2023-12-08

  • Documented which functions are deprecated and defunct relative to version 2.2021.3 under topics ebirdst-defunct and ebirdst-deprecated and added them back into the package. This allows other packages to conditionally reference them when 2.2021.3 is installed while still passing CRAN checks.

ebirdst 3.2022.0

CRAN release: 2023-11-15

  • new 2022 status data and trends data released for the first time!
  • major overhaul to allow more targeting downloading of data
  • all stixel-level results (PPMS/PIs/PDs) removed, replaced with spatialized raster versions
  • no more restart required after updating API key
  • change package-level documentation as per roxygen2 suggestions

ebirdst 2.2021.3

CRAN release: 2023-05-09

ebirdst 2.2021.2

CRAN release: 2023-04-27

  • add a more robust grid sampling function.

ebirdst 2.2021.1

CRAN release: 2023-04-06

  • release the final batch of 300 species for 2021 bringing the total to 2,282

ebirdst 2.2021.0

CRAN release: 2023-01-18

  • transition from using raster to terra for handling raster data
  • move the following packages from Imports to Suggests: gbm, mgcv, precrec, PresenceAbsence
  • move package to the eBird GitHub organization https://github.com/ebird/ebirdst

ebirdst 1.2021.3

CRAN release: 2023-01-11

  • patch to fix a bug introduced in last release causing missing config files from data downloads [issue #44]

ebirdst 1.2021.2

CRAN release: 2023-01-06

  • fix bug causing species with same base code to be downloaded together, e.g. leafly also downloads leafly2 [issue #43]

ebirdst 1.2021.1

CRAN release: 2022-12-07

  • fix bug with extent in load_fac_map_parameters(), GitHub issue #40
  • use dynamic PAT cutoff in PPM calculations
  • update species list to account for second release of eBird data this year

ebirdst 1.2021.0

CRAN release: 2022-11-09

  • update for the v2021 eBird Status and Trends data

ebirdst 1.2020.1

CRAN release: 2022-07-08

  • CRAN checks found files created and left behind in ~/Desktop, relocated test files to tempdir() and deleting after test completion with withr::defer()

ebirdst 1.2020.0

CRAN release: 2022-07-07

  • major update to align with the new eBird Status and Trends API
  • update to align with the 2020 eBird Status Data Products
  • transition from rappdirs to tools::R_user_dir() for handling download directories
  • all new vignettes

ebirdst 0.3.5

CRAN release: 2022-04-01

  • bug fix: API update is causing all data downloads to fail

ebirdst 0.3.4

CRAN release: 2022-03-16

  • rename master branch to main on GitHub requires different download path for example data

ebirdst 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2021-11-12

  • move example data to GitHub

ebirdst 0.3.2

CRAN release: 2021-09-15

  • again try to prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

ebirdst 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2021-08-18

  • prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

ebirdst 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2021-08-18

  • prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

ebirdst 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2021-08-10

  • add support for new data structures used for 2020 eBird Status and Trends
  • functionality to handle partial dependence data added
  • overhaul of package API to be more intuitive and streamlined
  • all documentation and vignettes updated

ebirdst 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2021-01-16

  • add support for variable ensemble support in compute_ppms()

ebirdst 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2020-03-23

  • bug fix: corrected date types in seasonal definitions
  • bug fix: fixed possibility that ebirdst_extent could produce invalid date (day 366 of 2015)
  • added import of pipe operator
  • velox was archived, removed dependency from Suggests
  • fasterize was archived, removed dependency from Imports

ebirdst 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2020-02-26

  • change maintainer to Matthew Strimas-Mackey
  • update to access 2019 status and trends data
  • partial dependence data no longer available, all references to PDs removed
  • bug fix: load_raster() gave incorrect names to seasonal rasters
  • bug fix: didn’t properly implement quantile binning
  • date_to_st_week() gets the status and trends week for a give vector of dates

ebirdst 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2019-04-04

  • first CRAN release