v3.0.1

rdataretriever 3.0.1

New Coauthors

We welcome Apoorva Pandey and Hao Ye as coauthors on the package.
Thanks for the great contributions!

New Features

• Add provenance support
• Add support for new online/offline dataset feature in retriever
• Automatically update dataset status
• Check that the retriever Python package is sufficiently up-to-date
• Update and simplify installation instructions
• Add get citation function
• Update and simplify internals to benefit from updates to reticulate
• Add vignettes

Minor Improvements

• Improvements to code style and documentation
• Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing for stability
• Add get_version function, returns the version of the Data Retriever

v.2.0.0

rdataretriever v2.0.0

New Coauthors

We welcome Harshit Bansal as a coauthor on the package.
Thanks for the great help!

New Features

• Add a customize installation to directory using data dir
• Use Dockers for testing
• Add spatial support using Postgis
• Using reticulate
• Add get_citation function
• Update Reset retriever to include reseting specific scripts or data

Minor Improvements

• Improve the test platform and use reticulate in the tests
• Test using custom service names specific to project
• Add potential path for retriever in Windows

Bug Fixes

• No scripts when using reticulate based install on retriever

rdataretriever v1.0.0

This is a major update over the last release. It implements a package name change, adds features, and fixes several important bugs.

New Package Name

The EcoData Retriever has been renamed to Data Retriever to reflect its utility outside of ecological data and consequently we have renamed the R package from ecoretriever to rdataretriever

New Coauthors

We welcome Henry Senyondo and Shawn Taylor as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Henry and Shawn!

New Features

Add reset which allows a user to delete all the Data Retriever downloaded files
Add json and xml as output options

Minor Improvements

Accommodate new retriever naming conventions in fetch
Don't change the class or return the update log
Specify in documentation which functions are for internal use.
Change dataset names in source and README.md

Bug Fixes

Search for Anaconda installs of the Data Retriever
Obtain correct home path in RStudio on Windows

v0.2.2

This is a bug fix release:

• Fixed --subdir download by removing extra argument

ecoretriever v0.2.1

This version launched on CRAN 2015-11-18

New Features

• We added a new function get_updates which can be used to update the retriever scripts. This is a big improvement for users because it avoids automatically updating the scripts every time the package is imported. The log of the scripts update can be printed in a cleaner format as well.
• Added support for maintaining subdirectory structure when using the function download.

Minor improvements

• default data_dir argument is now set to working directory rather than NULL for the function install()

Bug fixes

• On windows machine if the data directory was not specified for a dataset install an error would occur. Now the dataset directory is always specified in external calls to retriever install ...

ecoretriever v0.1

this version launched on CRAN 9/28/14