spocc v0.6.0

NEW FEATURES

• Added a new data source: Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), under
  the abbreviation ala (#98)
• Added a new data source: Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS),
  under the abbreviation obis (#155)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added note to docs and minor tweak to internal methods to account
  for max results from iDigBio of 100,000. Now when you request more than
  100K, you should get a warning saying as much (#169)

BUG FIXES

• Made occ2df() more robust to varied inputs - allowing for users
  that may on purpose or not have a subset of the data source slots
  normally in the occdat class object (#171)

spocc v0.5.4

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• rvertnet, a dependency dealing with data from Vertnet, was failing
  on certain searches. rvertnet was fixed and a new version on CRAN now.
  No changes here other than requiring the new version of rvertnet (#168)
• Fix to internal INAT parsers to handle JSON data output instead of
  CSV output. And fix to internal date parsing; INAT changed field for date
  from datetime to observed_on.
• Move all is() to inherits(), and namespace all setNames() calls
• We are now using rgbif::occ_data() instead of rgbif::occ_search()
• We are now using rvertnet::searchbyterm() instead of
  rgbif::vertsearch()

BUG FIXES

• Fixes to iDigBio internal plugin - we were dropping scientificname
  if geometry was passed by the user. Fixed now. (#167)
• Fixed bug in GBIF internal plugin - when more than 1 result given back
  (e.g., multiple searches were done, resulting in a list of objects)
  we weren't parsing the output correctly. Fixed now. (#166)

spocc v0.5.0

NEW FEATURES

• occ() now allows queries that only pass from and one of the data
  source opts params (e.g., gbifopts) - allows specifying any options
  passed down to the internal functions used to do data queries without
  having to use the other params in occ (#163)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Now using tibble for representing data.frames (#164)
• Now using explicit encoding="UTF-8" in httr::content() calls
  to parse raw data from web requests (#160)
• Now using ridigbio as its on CRAN - was using
  internal fxns prior to this (#154)

BUG FIXES

• There was a problem in the ebird parser where it wasn't processing
  results from ebird with no data. A problem with has_coords also
  fixed. (#161)

v0.4.5

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Using data.table::setDF() instead of data.frame() to set a data.table
  style table to a data.frame
• Added many more tests to make it less likely errors will occur
• Added vertnet as an option to occ_options() to get the options for passing
  to vertopts in occ()

BUG FIXES

• Fix to print.occdatind() - which in last version introduced a bug in this
  print method - wasn't fatal as only applied to empty slots in the output
  of a call to occ(), but nonetheless, not good (#159)

spocc v0.4.4

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New import data.table for fast list to data.frame

BUG FIXES

• Fix to ecoengine spatial search - internally we were not making the
  bounding box correctly - fixed now (#158)

spocc v0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• New function as.vertnet() to coerce various inputs (e.g., result from occ(), occ2df(), or a key itself) to occurrence data objects (#142)
• occ() gains two parameters start and page to facilitate paging
  through results across data sources, instead of having to page
  individually for each data source. Some sources use the start parameter,
  while others use the page parameter. See Paging section in ?occ for
  details on Paging (#140)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added Code of Conduct

BUG FIXES

• wkt_vis() now works with WKT polygons with multipe polygons, e.g.,
  spocc::wkt_vis("POLYGON((-125 38.4, -121.8 38.4, -121.8 40.9, -125 40.9, -125 38.4), (-115 22.4, -111.8 22.4, -111.8 30.9, -115 30.9, -115 22.4))") (#147)
• Fix to print.occdatind() to print more helpful info when a
  geometry search is used as opposed to a taxonomy based search (#149)
• Fix to print.occdatind() to not fail when first element not present;
  proceeds to next slot with data (#143)
• Fixed problem where occ() failed when multiple geometry elements
  passed in along with taxonomic names (#146)
• Fix to occ2df() for combining outputs to not fail when AntWeb
  doesn't give back dates (#144) (#145) - thanks @timcdlucas
• Fix to occ2df() to not fail when date field missing (#141)

spocc 0.3.2

NEW FEATURES

• Added iDigBio as a new data source in spocc (#136) (#124)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added much more detail on what parameters in child packages are being used inside of the occ() function. Each data source is taken care of in a separate package or set of wrapper functions, and the man file now details what API parameters are being queried (#138)

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug where when latitude/longitude columns missing, caused problems downstream in printing outputs, etc. Now we put in NA's when those columns missing (#139)
• Fixed bug in inat data source - Datetime variable changed to datetime
• Fixed bug in vertnet data source - occurrenceID variable changed to occurrenceid

spocc 0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• Mapping functions all gone, and put into a new package spoccutils (https://github.com/ropensci/spoccutils) (#132)
• occ() gains new parameter has_coords - a global parameter (except for ebird and bison) to return only records with lat/long data. (#128)
• type (#134) and rank (#133) parameters dropped from occ()
• When object returned by occ() is printed, we now include a message that total count of records found (not returned) is not completely known if ebird is included, because eBird does not include data on records found on their servers with requests to their API (#111)
• New functions as.*() (e.g., as.gbif) for most data sources. These functions take in occurrence keys or sets of keys, and retrieve detailed occurrence record data for each key (#112)
• New data source: VertNet (#110)
• occ2df() now returns more fields. This function collapses all essential fields that are easy to get in all data sources: name, lat, long, prov, date, key. The key field is the occurrence key for each record, which you can use to keep track of individual records, get more data on the record, etc. (#103) (#108)
• New function inspect() - takes output from occ() or individual occurrence keys and gets detailed occurrence data.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Now importing packages: jsonlite, V8, utils, and methods. No longer importing: ggmap, maptools, rworldmap, sp, rgeos, RColorBrewer, rgdal, and leafletR. Pkgs removed mostly due to splitting off some functionality into spoccutils. related issues: (#131) (#132)
• Now importing explicitly all non-base R functions that we use: now importing methods, utils (#120)
• We now attempt to standardize dates across all data sources, and return that in the output of a call to occ2df() (#106)
• wkt_vis() now only has an option to view a WKT shape in the browser.

BUG FIXES

• Fixes to being able to pass curl options on to each data source's functions (#107)

v0.2.4

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved documentation for bounding boxes, their expected format, etc. (#96)
• Remove dependency on the following packages: assertthat, plyr, data.table, and XML (#102)
• Using package gistr now to post interactive geojson maps on GitHub gists (#100)
• rgbif now must be v0.7.7 or greater (the latest version on CRAN).
• Removed the startup message.

BUG FIXES

• Duplicate, but not working correctly, function occ2sp() removed. The function occ_to_sp() function is the working version. (#97)
• Fixed bug where some records returned form GBIF did not have lat/long column headers, and we internally rearranged columns, which caused complete stop when that happened. Fixed now. (#101)
• Changed all \donttest to \dontrun in examples as requested by CRAN maintainers (#99)

v0.2.2

NEW FEATURES

• Added new function occ_names() to search only for taxonomic names. The goal here is to use ths function if there is some question about what names you want to use to search for occurrences with. (#84). Suggested by @jarioksa
• New function occ_names_options() to quickly get parameter options to pass to occ_names().
• New summary() method for the occdat S3 object that is output from occ() (#83)
• In many places in spocc (README, vignette, occ() documentation file, at package startup), we make it clear that there could be duplicate records returned in certain scenarios. And a new documentation page detailing what to watch out for: ?spocc_duplicates. (#77)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• All latitude/longitude column headers are now changed to latitude and longitude, whereas they use to vary from latitude, decimalLatitude, Latitude, lat, and decimal_latitude. (#91)
• Default is 500 now for the limit parameter in occ() (#78)
• You can now pass in limit to each functions options parameter, and it will work. Each data source can have a different parameter internally from limit, but now internally within spocc, we allow you to use limit so you don't have to know what the data source specific parameter is. (#81)
• There is a now a startup message to give information on the package (#79)
• occ_options() gains new parameter where to print either in the console or to open man file in the IDE, or prints to console in command line R.