finbif v0.8.0

DEPRECATION

• Mapping utilities finland_map, breaks_xy, hist_xy and the plot
  method for finbif_occ objects have been deprecated as they are
  out-of-scope.

• User access to finbif_records and its classes and methods is
  deprecated in favour of finbif_occurrence.

NEW FEATURES

• Record aggregations with finbif_occurrence can now include
  "individual" and "pair" sums.

finbif v0.7.2

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Updated deprecated use of tidy::pivot_wider.

• Added new filters and variables from upstream API.

finbif v0.7.1

NEW FEATURES

• New function finbif_mod_date to get last modified date for FinBIF
  occurrence data.

• Region is now a selectable variable for finbif_occurrence and can
  also be used to filter records.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• For the sake of clarity "province" is now referred to as
  "bio-province".

• Many variables, including sex, life_stage and record_quality
  are now localised.

• The variable restriction_reasons is now referred to in the
  singular as restriction_reason.

• For consistency, lang argument to finbif_collections has been
  changed to locale.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug that caused locale to be set incorrectly for multipage
  requests.

finbif v0.7.0

NEW FEATURES

• New function taxon_id that returns FinBIF taxon identifiers given
  a scientific name, vernacular name or other taxon identifier.

• New filters complete_list_taxon_id and complete_list_type now
  available.

• New global option finbif_hide_progress to suppress progress bars
  when downloading, importing or processing FinBIF records.

• For the sake of clarity and consistency the term "administrative
  status" is now refered to as "regulatory status" throughout.

• Regulatory status, informal taxonomic group and habitat data are now
  localised.

• Option unlist added to finbif_occurrence that casts list columns
  to strings. If a cell has multiple values the values are cast to a
  string separated by semi-colons.

• New argument facts added to finbif_occurrence that can be used
  to automatically extract facts when downloading occurrence records.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug triggered by incorrect data type applied to
  taxonomic_order.

• Fixed bug preventing locale switching of vernacular name data.

finbif v0.6.6

NEW FEATURES

• New option to exclude all records with any NA values for any of the
  selected variables added to finbif_occurrence.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• The warning/error message returned when an invalid taxon is
  requested with finbif_occurrence has been made more detailed,
  warning the user they may be using synonyms or other invalid taxon
  names.

BUG FIXES

• Fix applied for a print method error triggered by clashing class
  names.

• Fixed issue with ordering by some variables.

finbif v0.6.5

NEW FEATURES

• New variables and filters (currently undocumented) have been added
  for the forthcoming Finnish atlas of breeding birds.

• Skip rows argument added to finbif_occurrence_load so files can be
  read in chunks.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• For clarity, KKJ coordinate reference system is now refered to as
  YKJ.

• When selecting all available variables for download file imports
  using finbif_occurrence_load "extra" variables will no longer be
  automatically added.

finbif v0.6.4

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New administrative statuses added.

• The number of (and interval between) api request retries can be
  configured (currently undocumented).

• For some museum collections scientific names have been added for
  non-Finnish species.

• New fields have been added to citable download imports.

• New argument aggregate_counts (defaulting to TRUE) added to
  finbif_occurrence to toggle the inclusion of aggregation count
  fields on and off.

• New bird association area, occurrence types and location tag
  metadata added.

• New filters and variables (currently undocumented) added from
  upstream API.

BUG FIXES

• Fix bug triggered when printing occurrence records where all records
  have no coordinate uncertainty.

finbif v0.6.3

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Argument drop_na_facts has been changed to drop_facts_na for
  function finbif_occurrence_load to avoid problems due to partial
  matching of argument drop_na.

• Data quality description has been appended to description field in
  data.frame returned by finbif_collections().

• Occurrence record filtering can now be done using open-ended date
  ranges.

• New administrative statuses added.

BUG FIXES

• Fix bug in importing of file downloads triggered by string quotation
  errors.

finbif v0.6.2

NEW FEATURES

• New package option, finbif_allow_query, with default value,
  TRUE. If set to FALSE then remote API queries will trigger an
  error meaning only cached requests will run if a cache is found.

• Records can now be aggregated by document.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• A client-side error will be triggered if an attempt is made to
  filter by taxon and aggregate data by event with
  finbif_occurrence.

BUG FIXES

• Fix bug preventing loading of FinBIF archives that is triggered when
  all variables are selected with select = "all".

• Fix bug preventing finbif_occ objects from printing when one or
  more columns contain missing data only.

finbif v0.6.1

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a regression in the last release that prevented collection
  names being converted from their URIs.