Changelog

auk 0.8.2

CRAN release: 2025-06-20

handle changes to project names resulting from release of eBird Projects

auk 0.8.1

CRAN release: 2025-05-04

allow ebird_species() to search for species codes in addition to scientific and common names
handle changes to EBD column names resulting from release of eBird Projects (issue #91)

auk 0.8.0

CRAN release: 2025-01-14

update for 2024 taxonomy
added a helper function for processing bar chart data from eBird process_barcharts()

auk 0.7.0

CRAN release: 2023-11-14

update for 2023 eBird taxonomy
no need to restart after setting AWK and EBD paths
retain breeding codes in auk_zerofill()
changes to conform with deprecation of .data$ in tidyselect expressions
changes to package-level documentation in roxygen2
removed non-ASCII characters from datasets

auk 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2022-10-29

update for 2022 eBird taxonomy

auk 0.5.2

added an extinct column to taxonomy

auk 0.5.1

CRAN release: 2021-10-27

drop data.table dependency, no longer needed with readr speed improvements
fix bug arising from ‘breeding bird atlas code’ being renamed to ‘breeding code’ (issue #58)

auk 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2021-09-16

update to align with 2021 eBird taxonomy

auk 0.4.4

CRAN release: 2021-07-21

updates to align with readr 2.0

auk 0.4.3

CRAN release: 2020-11-23

get_ebird_taxonomy() now fails gracefully when eBird API is not accessible, fixing the CRAN check errors https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_auk.html

auk 0.4.2

CRAN release: 2020-10-19

new auk_county() filter
new auk_year() filter
Drop taxonomy warnings since there was no taxonomy update this year

auk 0.4.1

CRAN release: 2020-04-03

Family common names now included in eBird taxonomy
auk_select() now requires certain columns to be kept
Better handling of file paths with prefix argument in auk_split()
Fixed bug causing undescribed species to be dropped by auk_rollup()
Add a ll_digits argument to filter_repeat_visits() to round lat/lng prior to identifying sites
Change of default parameters to filter_repeat_visits()
auk_bbox() now takes sf/raster spatial objects and grabs bbox from them

auk 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2019-09-23

Updated to 2019 eBird taxonomy
auk_observer() filter added
tidyr::complete_() deprecated, stopped using

auk 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2019-06-23

Dates can now wrap in auk_date(), e.g. use date = c("*-12-01", "*-01-31") for records from December or January
Fixed bug preventing dropping of age/sex column
Allow for a wider variety of protocols in auk_protocol()
Addresing some deprecated functions from rlang
Fixed bug causing auk_set_awk_path() to fail

auk 0.3.2

CRAN release: 2019-02-04

Work around for bug in system2() in some R versions: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17508
Adding a filter for PROALAS checklists to auk_protocol()

auk 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2018-12-07

rlang::UQ() and rlang::UQS() deprecated, switching to !! and !!!
auk_unique() now keeps track of all sampling event and observer IDs that comprise a group checklist

auk 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2018-10-04

Updated to 2018 taxonomy; new function get_ebird_taxonomy() to get taxonomy via the eBird API
Better handling of taxonomy versions, many functions now take a taxonomy_version argument and use the eBird API to get the taxonomy
auk_getpath() renamed auk_get_awk_path(), and added auk_set_awk_path()
Added auk_set_ebd_path() and auk_get_ebd_path() to set and get the EBD_PATH environment variable. Now users only need to set this once and just refer to the file name, rather than specifying the full path every time.
Functions to prepare data for occupancy modeling: filter_repeat_visits() and format_unmarked_occu()
New auk_bcr() function to extract data from BCRs
Added bcr_codes data frame to look up BCR names and codes
“Area” protocol added to auk_protocol() filter.
auk_extent() renamed auk_bbox(); auk_extent() deprecated and redirects to auk_bbox()
auk_zerofill() now checks for complete checklists and gives option to not rollup
auk_rollup() now gives the option of keeping higher taxa via drop_higher argument
auk_clean() deprecated
Fixed package load error when EBD_PATH is invalid
Fixed bug when reading files with a blank column using readr

auk 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2018-07-23

Updated to work with EDB version 1.9
Modified tests to be more general to all sample data
ebird_species() now returns 6-letter species codes
Fixed bug causing auk to fail on files downloaded via custom download form
Fixed bug with normalizePath() use on Windows
Fixed bug with system2() on Windows

auk 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2018-03-28

Patch release fixing a couple bugs
Removed all non-ASCII characters from example files, closes issue #14
Fixed issue with state filtering not working, closes issue $16

auk 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2018-03-20

New function, auk_split(), splits EBD up into multiple files by species
New object, auk_sampling, and associated methods for working with the sampling data only
New function, auk_select(), for selecting a subset of columns
auk_date() now allows filtering date ranges across years using wildcards, e.g. date = c("*-05-01", "*-06-30") for observations from May and June of any year
New function, auk_state() for filtering by state
Now using AWK arrays to speed up country and species filtering; ~20% speed up when filtering on many species/countries
Allow selection of a subset of columns when filtering
Remove free text columns in auk_clean() to decrease file size
Updated to work with Feb 2018 version of EBD
Fixed broken dependency on countrycode package

auk 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2017-10-21

eBird taxonomy update to August 2017 version, users should download the most recent EBD to ensure the taxonomy is in sync with the new package
Manually set AWK path with environment variable AWK_PATH in .Renviron file
auk_distance, auk_breeding, auk_protocol, and auk_project filters added
Users can now specify a subset of columns to return when calling auk_filter using the keep and drop arguments
Many changes suggested by rOpenSci package peer review process, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/136 for details
New vignette added to aid those wanting to contribute to package development

auk 0.0.2

CRAN release: 2017-07-05

Patch release converting ebird_taxonomy to ASCII to pass CRAN checks

auk 0.0.1