Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

ALA4R 1.9.1 Unreleased

• ALA4R is deprecated and will be removed from CRAN at the end of 2021. The package to replace ALA4R, galah, is now available on CRAN. For an introduction to galah, visit the GitHub page.
• Minor fixes to functions in response to ALA core infrastructure upgrade

ALA4R 1.9.0 2020-11-01

• Add ability to generate a DOI for data downloads in occurrences() with generate_doi parameter
• Add email_notify parameter to occurrences(), set to FALSE by default
• Set default download reason as “scientific research”

ALA4R 1.8.0 2020-04-04

• remove method parameter for occurrences() and only use offline method to make download more stable
• rename image_info() to images() and add option to download images
• images() makes use of new ALA images web service
• added occurrence_images() function to retrieve image information and download images using occurrence ids

ALA4R 1.7.0 2019-04-02

• remove dependency on RCurl

ALA4R 1.6.3 Unreleased

• changes to API urls (http to https)
• handle new sites_by_species web service

ALA4R 1.6.2 2019-02-13

• updates to handle ALA API field changes
• update vignette to be more robust to server outage

ALA4R 1.6.0 2018-05-22

• added workaround for occurrences(..., method="offline") to cope with server-side bug (see https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/biocache-service/issues/221)
• package documentation via pkgdown (https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/)
• refreshed package vignette
• change of package maintainer

ALA4R 1.5.10 Unreleased

• bugfixes

ALA4R 1.5.6 2017-02-18

• added biocache_version parameter to server configuration, to support use of ALA4R with other server instances (e.g. other national installations using the ALA server infrastructure)
• minor bugfixes

ALA4R 1.5 Unreleased

• updated code,examples and vignette for new ALA taxonomic backbone
• “offline” method added to occurrences(), allowing download of larger datasets with more fields
• fieldguide() function added
• fields=“all” option added to taxinfo_download()
• ala_list() and ala_lists() functions added

ALA4R 1.24 Unreleased

• better handling of text encoding (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/15)

ALA4R 1.23 Unreleased

• added image_number parameter to image_info()

ALA4R 1.21 Unreleased

• added image_info() and occurrence_details() functions

• added extra="all" and qa="all" options to occurrences()

ALA4R 1.20 Unreleased

• fixed as_is behaviour in ala_fields().

• usage of stringr functions now compatible with stringr v1.0.

• parameter occurrence_count added to search_names().

• tests added to tests/testthat.

ALA4R 1.191 Unreleased

• improved parsing of field names in internal function check_fq() (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/13).

ALA4R 1.19 Unreleased

• internal function check_fq() throws a warning not an error if it thinks there is a problem with the fq string (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/13).

ALA4R 1.18 Unreleased

• for improperly classified taxa, the result$classification object returned by species_info() is now a data.frame (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/11).

ALA4R 1.18 Unreleased

• bugfix in species_info() (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R/issues/11).