NEWS

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ebirdst 3.2022.4

• add capability to download and load data coverage layers
• Northern Goshawk species code was incorrect
• on some VPNs downloading from https raises an error, switch to http in these cases

ebirdst 3.2022.3 (2024-03-05)

• arrow is back on CRAN, move from Suggests back to Imports
• add 6 new species for Australia

ebirdst 3.2022.2 (2024-02-23)

• switch terminology from "trajectory" to "migration chronology"
• ensure rasterize_trends() works for older versions of terra (issue #7)
• move arrow package to Suggests until it is back on CRAN (see https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/39806)

ebirdst 3.2022.1 (2023-12-08)

• Documented which functions are deprecated and defunct relative to version 2.2021.3 under topics ebirdst-defunct and ebirdst-deprecated and added them back into the package. This allows other packages to conditionally reference them when 2.2021.3 is installed while still passing CRAN checks.

ebirdst 3.2022.0 (2023-11-15)

• new 2022 status data and trends data released for the first time!
• major overhaul to allow more targeting downloading of data
• all stixel-level results (PPMS/PIs/PDs) removed, replaced with spatialized raster versions
• no more restart required after updating API key
• change package-level documentation as per roxygen2 suggestions

ebirdst 2.2021.3 (2023-05-09)

• fix bug causing stixels with missing bounds to raise an error in ebirdst_habitat()
• add a function to estimate MCC-F1 for ebirdst_ppms()

ebirdst 2.2021.2 (2023-04-27)

• add a more robust grid sampling function.

ebirdst 2.2021.1 (2023-04-06)

• release the final batch of 300 species for 2021 bringing the total to 2,282

ebirdst 2.2021.0 (2023-01-18)

• transition from using raster to terra for handling raster data
• move the following packages from Imports to Suggests: gbm, mgcv, precrec, PresenceAbsence
• move package to the eBird GitHub organization https://github.com/ebird/ebirdst

ebirdst 1.2021.3 (2023-01-11)

• patch to fix a bug introduced in last release causing missing config files from data downloads [issue #44]

ebirdst 1.2021.2 (2023-01-06)

• fix bug causing species with same base code to be downloaded together, e.g. leafly also downloads leafly2 [issue #43]

ebirdst 1.2021.1 (2022-12-07)

• fix bug with extent in load_fac_map_parameters(), GitHub issue #40
• use dynamic PAT cutoff in PPM calculations
• update species list to account for second release of eBird data this year

ebirdst 1.2021.0 (2022-11-09)

• update for the v2021 eBird Status and Trends data

ebirdst 1.2020.1 (2022-07-08)

• CRAN checks found files created and left behind in ~/Desktop, relocated test files to tempdir() and deleting after test completion with withr::defer()

ebirdst 1.2020.0 (2022-07-07)

• major update to align with the new eBird Status and Trends API
• update to align with the 2020 eBird Status Data Products
• transition from rappdirs to tools::R_user_dir() for handling download directories
• all new vignettes

ebirdst 0.3.5 (2022-04-01)

• bug fix: API update is causing all data downloads to fail

ebirdst 0.3.4 (2022-03-16)

• rename master branch to main on GitHub requires different download path for example data

ebirdst 0.3.3 (2021-11-12)

• move example data to GitHub

ebirdst 0.3.2 (2021-09-15)

• again try to prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

ebirdst 0.3.1 (2021-08-18)

• prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

• prevent tests and examples from leaving files behind to pass CRAN checks

ebirdst 0.3.0 (2021-08-10)

• add support for new data structures used for 2020 eBird Status and Trends
• functionality to handle partial dependence data added
• overhaul of package API to be more intuitive and streamlined
• all documentation and vignettes updated

ebirdst 0.2.2 (2021-01-16)

• add support for variable ensemble support in compute_ppms()

ebirdst 0.2.1 (2020-03-23)

• bug fix: corrected date types in seasonal definitions
• bug fix: fixed possibility that ebirdst_extent could produce invalid date (day 366 of 2015)
• added import of pipe operator
• velox was archived, removed dependency from Suggests
• fasterize was archived, removed dependency from Imports

ebirdst 0.2.0 (2020-02-26)

• change maintainer to Matthew Strimas-Mackey
• update to access 2019 status and trends data
• partial dependence data no longer available, all references to PDs removed
• bug fix: load_raster() gave incorrect names to seasonal rasters
• bug fix: didn't properly implement quantile binning
• date_to_st_week() gets the status and trends week for a give vector of dates

ebirdst 0.1.0 (2019-04-04)

• first CRAN release