NEWS

c14bazAAR 5.0.0

removed the databases radon and radon-b and replaced it with the new, merged database rado.nb
- deprecated get_radon and get_radonb
- added a new function get_rado.nb
updated 14cpalaeolithic to the new version v31
fixed an issue with a unicode character in the format function that was called in the plot function and failed in R v4.4.0; just replaced the longer dash \u2015 with -

c14bazAAR 4.1.0

added getter function for neonetatl database: get_neonetatl
small improvements to get_neonet
removed unnecessary Suggests: dependencies lwgeom and rgeos

c14bazAAR 4.0.0

deprecated get_context - this database is not available any more online
slightly reorganized the raw data storage to make it more clear which information is still relevant
defined some NA strings for get_neonet
reformatted the database list in the README; it now includes the database version available through c14bazAAR

c14bazAAR 3.4.2

added getter function for neonet database: get_neonet

c14bazAAR 3.4.1

updated get_14cpalaeolithic to use v29 of the source database
added an additional message to get_c14data on how to prevent download timeouts
minor refactoring

c14bazAAR 3.4.0

added getter function for p3k14c database: get_p3k14c

c14bazAAR 3.3.0

made the default plot function a bit more powerful (#154)

c14bazAAR 3.2.1

simplified many getter functions by replacing the explicit column classes definition with a general colClasses = "character", which should do exactly the same (#153)

c14bazAAR 3.2.0

added getter function for sard database: get_sard

c14bazAAR 3.1.0

added getter function for aida database: get_aida
adjusted getter function for the nerd database (get_nerd)

c14bazAAR 3.0.1

updated get_14cpalaeolithic to be compatible with the latest respective database version v.28

c14bazAAR 3.0.0

deprecated classify_material
deprecated fix_database_country_name

c14bazAAR 2.4.2

fixed an encoding issue in get_pacea

c14bazAAR 2.4.1

some tiny fixes
added an informative figure to the README

c14bazAAR 2.4.0

added getter function for agrichange database: get_agrichange
added getter function for caribbean database: get_caribbean

c14bazAAR 2.3.0

deprecated get_emedyd, because the emedyd database was superseded by the nerd database

c14bazAAR 2.2.0

added getter function for rxpand database: get_rxpand

c14bazAAR 2.1.0

added getter function for NERD database: get_nerd
added getter function for BDA database: get_bda

c14bazAAR 2.0.0

the default lookup tables are now stored in the package and not downloaded from Github any more (#128)
some changes in the internal functioning of the lookup methods (#128)
introduced inspect_lookup_country and inspect_lookup_material which replace the automatic printing in fix_database_country_name and classify_material (#128)

c14bazAAR 1.3.3

modified variable reference table layout (#126)

c14bazAAR 1.3.2

added submission ToDo list to README (#124)
defined version update schema in README (#124)

c14bazAAR 1.3.1

filtered out TL dates from aDRAC in parser function (#123)

c14bazAAR 1.3.0

general changes

added a CITATION file (see citation("c14bazAAR"))
deprecated mark_duplicates to get rid of this extra step. You can get the same result now with remove_duplicates(mark_only = TRUE) (#100)
deprecated coordinate_precision. The functionality was not essential and the calculated precision values probably frequently misleading. Beyond that the name was confusing (#96) (#106)
deprecated finalize_country_name. This wrapper function was rather confusing and the functionality can be very easily be reimplemented if necessary (#96) (#106)
renamed standardize_country_name to fix_database_country_name to make more clear what it does (#96) (#106)
switched from openxlsx to readxl & writexl for handling xlsx files (#105) (#111)
allowed for different calibration curves in calibrate (#118)

new getter functions

added getter function for MesoRAD database: get_mesorad (#112)
added getter function for Katsianis et al. database: get_katsianis (#103)
added getter function for PACEA database: get_pacea (#90)
added getter function for 14C-Palaeolithic database: get_14cpalaeolithic (#90)
added getter function for MedAfriCarbon database: get_medafricarbon (#95)
added getter function for Jōmon population dynamics database: get_jomon (#95)
added getter function for emedyd database: get_emedyd (#102)

database updates

updated the CalPal database from version 2017_04_27 to 2020_08_20 (#108)

bugfixes

lwgeom::st_make_valid was replaced by sf::st_make_valid (#99)
enabled UTF-8 characters in country thesaurus (#96) (#104)
plot.c14_date_list does not choke any more on c14_date_lists without coordinate columns (#112)
fixed some entries in the country thesaurus

c14bazAAR 1.2.0 (2020-01-12)

general changes

unified database names in all functions, tables, variables and documentation (#86)
new logo and some layout changes in the README (#81)

new features

added a basic plot function for c14_date_lists (#82)
added a basic write function for c14_date_lists: write_c14() (#84)
added a version column that documents from which database version a certain date is pulled (#85)

c14bazAAR 1.1.0

general changes

ROpenSci review
moved main development repository to github/ropensci/c14bazAAR (e0e6827f0381be04c50380eec277c01cad44ac7d)
created c14bazAAR project on the OSF platform with a DOI
more work on an article for the Journal of Open Source Software (paper.md + paper.bib)
changed citation to JOSS article after its publication

new features

new download interface as suggested by Enrico Crema in the ROpenSci review: get_c14data() (#76)
replaced hard coded URLs with arguments to get helper functions (caabcb7b)

new getter functions

added getter function for irdd database: get_irdd (#79)

c14bazAAR 1.0.3 (2019-08-02)

general changes

reformatted authors in DESCRIPTION and added ORCIDs (#72)
added a citation section to the README
added a checklist to the README on how to add new getter functions
work on an article for the Journal of Open Source Software (paper.md + paper.bib)
added a vignette with some plotting workflows
created a completely artificial example dataset that replaces the sampled version

new getter functions

added getter function for Palmisano et al. database: get_palmisano (#59)
added getter function for eubar database: get_eubar (#64)

new features

added new options for the deduplication function (see ?duplicates) (#63)
added an internal function clean_labnr to the as.c14_date_list workflow to fix certain syntactically wrong representations of lab numbers in several input databases as part of the downloading process (#61)
better implementation of the c14_date_list as a subclass of tibble for a better integration of the subclass into the tidyverse (#67)

bugfixes

small file path construction fix in context getter function
replaced some deprecated functions by other packages (dplyr::funs & tibble::as.tibble)
replaced RCurl::url.exists with httr::http_error in check_connection_to_url (#68)
fixed as.sf error that occurred when date lists with dates without coordinates were transformed

removed objects

data objects c14bazAAR::country_thesaurus, c14bazAAR::material_thesaurus, c14bazAAR::variable-reference have been removed from the package -- they are queried from here anyway and it's not necessary to put them into the package
some helper functions have been made internal
.Rd files for unexported, internal objects have been removed (@noRd)

c14bazAAR 1.0.2 (2018-10-28)

Release version