rdataretriever 1.0.0

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

Accomodate 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

ecoretriever 0.3.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

Improve documentation for using the connection file

BUG FIXES

Fix issues with running on some Windows machines by using shell() instead of system() on Windows
Fix new --subdir functionality (released in 0.2.2)

ecoretriever 0.2

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 ...