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Published June 23, 2020 | Version v3.0.0
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ropensci/rgbif: rgbif v3.0.0

Authors/Creators

  • 1. rOpenSci
  • 2. INBO
  • 3. Nielsen
  • 4. @inbo
  • 5. Florida Museum of Natural History
  • 6. University of California, Berkeley @ucberkeley
  • 7. College of Charleston
  • 8. UC Berkeley
  • 9. UCLA
  • 10. University of Washington
  • 11. University of Melbourne
  • 12. Australian Antarctic Division, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) CRC

Description

BREAKING CHANGE
  • Many functions (occ_search, occ_get, name_usage, name_lookup, name_suggest, name_backbone, and dataset_search) have a return parameter to toggle what is returned from the function call. To simplify rgbif maintainence, we've deprecated the return parameter. We've left it in each of the functions, but it no longer does anything, other than raising a warning if used. This means that function calls to these functions now always return the same data structure, making it easier to reason about for the user, as well as for us developers trying to make sure the package works as expected under a variety of conditions. If you have been using the return parameter, do the same function call as before, but now index to the output you need. This is a breaking change, thus the major version bump (#413)
NEW FEATURES
  • new function occ_download_cached(), which takes the same input as occ_download(), but instead of starting a query, it checks if you've recently made the same request (with configureable settings for what "recent" means). This can save time when you're doing occurrence download requests that you may have done in the recent past (#308)
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
  • configured package to be able to use two different base urls, api.gbif-uat.org and api.gbif.org. We have only used the latter previously, but now can configure rgbif to use the former, mostly for testing purposes (#398)
  • occ_download_import() gains encoding parameter that is passed down to data.table::fread to make it very clear that encoding can be configured (even though you could have before via ...) (#414)
BUG FIXES
  • fix tibble construction (#412)

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https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif/tree/v3.0.0 (URL)