Changelog
Source:NEWS.md
rredlist 0.5.0
CRAN release: 2018-07-19
NEW FEATURES
- gains new function
rl_use_iucn
to help with API key setup (#31) by @maelle - gains new functions
rl_comp_groups
andrl_comp_groups_
to interface with the comprehensive groups API route (#26) -
rl_sp
gains two new parameters:all
(logical) to toggle getting all results or not, if selected we do paging internally;quiet
parameter (logical) suppresses progress (#29)
rredlist 0.4.0
CRAN release: 2017-08-26
NEW FEATURES
- Gains new functions
rl_growth_forms()
andrl_growth_forms_()
. added tests for them as well (#20) thanks @stevenpbachman
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Now using markdown documentation (#22)
- Fixed many man files which for
region
parameter described requiring a taxonomic name - fixed to describe accurately. Also improved docs in general (#21) - Added the options for
category
parameter inrl_sp_category()
function - Added in docs for
rl_sp_country
how to get acceptable country codes to pass tocountry
parameter - Added to package level manual file
?rredlist-package
a note from the IUCN Redlist API documentation about that they suggest using taxonomic names instead of IDs because IDs can change through time
rredlist 0.3.0
CRAN release: 2017-01-11
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- User agent string like
r-curl/2.3 crul/0.2.0 rOpenSci(rredlist/0.3.0)
sent in all requests now to help IUCN API maintainers know how often requests come from R and this package (#19) - Taxon names are now given back in
rl_threats
- we didn’t do anything in the package - the API now gives the names back and adds them in a column (#10) - Type checking all parameter inputs now both in terms of class and length - with helpful error messages on fail (#17)
- Simplify package codebase by having single internal function for a suite of half a dozen or so functions that have similar pattern (#18)
- Removed
key
parameter fromrl_version()
andrl_citation()
as API key not required for those methods - More thorough test suite
rredlist 0.2.0
CRAN release: 2016-10-15
NEW FEATURES
- New methods added to get historical assessments:
rl_history()
andrl_history_()
(#8)
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Fixed description of what
rl_common_names
does. In addition, clarified description of what other functions do as well, whenever it was unclear (#12)