NEWS.md

rcites 1.0.0.9000

• Fix a bug that prevented spp_taxonconcept() from downloading all the taxon concepts, see #42.

rcites 1.0.0

• new features:

  • spp_taxonconcept() now includes an auto-pagination that allows to retrieve all entries for queries that have more than 500 results;
  • spp_taxonconcept(), spp_eu_legislation(), spp_cites_legislation() and spp_references() now supports vectors as taxon_id argument which allows bulk analysis.
  • Functions spp_* now returns S3 objects:
    • spp_taxonconcept() returns an object of class spp_taxon;
    • spp_cites_legislation() returns an object of class spp_cites_leg or spp_cites_leg_multi;
    • spp_eu_legislation() returns an object of class spp_eu_leg or spp_eu_leg_multi;
    • spp_distributions() returns an object of class spp_distr or spp_distr_multi;
    • spp_references() returns an object of class spp_refs or spp_refs_multi;
  • Moreover:
    • spp_raw class is defined for all functions including the argument raw, it returns the parsed output from the API as a list object.

• add function parameters:

  • taxonomy, with_descendants, language, updated_since, per_page, seq_page, raw, verbose in spp_taxonconcept();
  • scope, language and raw to spp_cites_legislation();
  • scope, language and raw to spp_eu_legislation();
  • language and raw to spp_distributions().

• change function names:

  • set_token() instead of sppplus_login();
  • spp_taxonconcept() instead of sppplus_taxonconcept();
  • spp_cites_legislation() instead of taxon_cites_legislation();
  • spp_eu_legislation() instead of taxon_eu_legislation();
  • spp_distributions() instead of taxon_distribution();
  • spp_references() instead of taxon_references();
  • rcites_simplify() instead of sppplus_simplify();
  • rcites_ instead of sppplus_ for helper functions.

• follow goodpractice:

  • use '<-' for assignment instead of '=',
  • omit "Date" in DESCRIPTION,
  • avoid 1:length(...), 1:nrow(...), 1:ncol(...),

rcites 0.1.0

First release

Features

• spp_taxonconcept( ): access the Speciesplus taxon concept
• spp_cites_legislation( ): access CITES legislation data
• spp_eu_legislation( ): access EU legislation data
• spp_distributions( ): access a taxon distribution data
• spp_references( ): access a listing reference data