NEWS
auk 0.8.2 (2025-06-20)
- handle changes to project names resulting from release of eBird Projects
auk 0.8.1 (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 (2025-01-14)
- update for 2024 taxonomy
- added a helper function for processing bar chart data from eBird
process_barcharts()
auk 0.7.0 (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 (2022-10-29)
- update for 2022 eBird taxonomy
auk 0.5.2
- added an
extinct column to taxonomy
auk 0.5.1 (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 (2021-09-16)
- update to align with 2021 eBird taxonomy
auk 0.4.4 (2021-07-21)
- updates to align with readr 2.0
auk 0.4.3 (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 (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 (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 (2019-09-23)
- Updated to 2019 eBird taxonomy
auk_observer() filter addedtidyr::complete_() deprecated, stopped using
auk 0.3.3 (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 (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 (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 (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 rollupauk_rollup() now gives the option of keeping higher taxa via drop_higher argumentauk_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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2017-07-05)
- Patch release converting ebird_taxonomy to ASCII to pass CRAN checks
auk 0.0.1 (2017-07-05)