finbif v0.9.9

DEFUNCT

• Importing .ods and .xlsx occurrence data files is now defunct. Users
  should use .tsv download files only.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Occurrence download progress indicator has been simplified.
• Location data parsing (country, region, municipality and local area) has
  been improved.

finbif v0.9.8

DEPRECATION

• Importing .ods and .xlsx occurrence data files has been
  deprecated and will be defunct in a future release.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Caching behaviour has been made more consistent.

finbif v0.9.7

NEW FEATURES

• Record pagination has been simplified and improved so that it should
  not be possible to have duplicate records when using
  finbif_occurrences.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• finbif_last_mod can be used without a filter argument value.

• Error handling for API requests has been improved.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue triggered when multi-filter set requests returned
  zero results.

• Fixed bug triggered when dropping columns of all NA data.

• Fixed an issue with file-based caches timing out correctly.

• Fixed an issue triggered when selecting certain variables and zero
  records were returned.

finbif v0.9.6

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New undocumented variable and filter local added from upstream
  API.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused more records than requested to be
  returned for certain values of n.

finbif v0.9.5

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• A more informative error message is given when requesting an access
  token for an email address that has already been assigned one.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue with reading facts for FinBIF record download files.

• Fixed an issue with readling column names using data.table package
  to ingest FinBIF record download files.

finbif v0.9.4

NEW FEATURES

• New undocumented variable "source" can be selected with
  finbif_occurrence.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Record pagination should now often require less queries of FinBIF
  server and be should be faster.

• FinBIF collections field names have been sanitised.

• When filtering records by "collection_id" a full URL ID can be used
  or a QName.

BUG FIXES

• Reading zero observation data downloads will now produce a zero row
  data.frame instead of triggering an error.

finbif v0.9.3

BUG FIXES

• Fix a bug resulting in the incorrect region being assigned to
  occurrences records.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New undocumented variables institution_code and collection_code
  can be selected when using functions finbif_collections and
  finbif_occurrence.

finbif v0.9.2

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug triggered when localising some variables and multiple
  pages of data had been requested.

finbif v0.9.1

NEW FEATURES

• New option finbif_use_cache_metadata to set caching for metadata
  only. Is ignored if finbif_use_cache is TRUE.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug triggered when trying to compute a variable from an
  identifier and data returned contained zero records.

finbif v0.9.0

NEW FEATURES

• New function finbif_update_cache can be used to update all the
  cached objects that have reached their expiration and are no longer
  valid.

• A restricted data API token can be explicitly declared via the
  restricted_api argument to finbif_occurrence.

• Cached data can use a database as a backend by passing a DBI
  database connection object to the package option
  finbif_cache_path.

• Cached data can be assigned a timeout by using a number (hours)
  instead of a logical value for the cache argument to finbif_
  functions or the package option finbif_use_cache.

• Record aggregations with finbif_occurrence can now be combined
  with multi-filter requests. Removing duplicate records or aggregate
  record combinations can be controlled with the duplicates argument
  and adding a column indicating the filter sets can be added with the
  filter_col argument.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug causing an infinite recursion when determining page size
  during record download pagination.

• Fix bug triggered when using aggregation with some selected
  variables.

DEFUNCT

• Mapping utilities finland_map, breaks_xy, hist_xy and the plot
  method for finbif_occ objects are now defunct.

• User access to finbif_records and its classes and methods is now
  defunct.