Recent Releases of bdc

bdc - v.1.1.5

  • Move {doParallel} from Suggests to Imports (Thanks, @black-snow; PR #251).
  • Minor adjustments in bdc_correct_coordinates for improved functionality.
  • Debugged bdc_quick_map: updated dependency handling for the dplyr package.
  • Enhanced bdc_country_standardize function: added an internal function to improve country name checking and standardization.
  • Deprecated rgnarspser lifecycle. Added a tutorial on the bdc website (https://brunobrr.github.io/bdc/articles/help/installing_gnparser.html) with installation instructions for gnparser on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
  • Updated bdc_parse_names documentation for clarity.
  • Updated bdc_create_figures: removed outdated dependencies (sp, rgeos), debugged functionality, and added a new "hex" argument.
  • Updated README file.

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Published by brunobrr over 1 year ago

bdc -

  • Adaptation of the databases to the latest version of {taxadb} (0.2.0), temporarily discontinuing the tpl, fb and iucn databases (see here).

  • bdc_query_names_taxadb() now informs the database provider and its version and does not create Output directory when export_accepted=FALSE.

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Published by brunobrr about 3 years ago

bdc -

  • bdc_standardize_datasets now throws an error when dataset names defined in the metadata file are not unique.
  • Fix minor bug in bdc_coordinates_country_inconsistent() (see: 5c4e0aa).
  • {countrycode} and {rangeBuilder} dependencies were removed. Country names now are derived from Stefan Gabos repository following the ISO 3166-1 standard.

  • {bdc} wins the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge GBIF 2022 (see links below)!

    • https://www.gbif.org/news/6J94JrRZtDCPhUZMMiTALq/gridder-and-bdc-share-top-honors-in-2022-gbif-ebbe-nielsen-challenge
    • https://www.sibbr.gov.br/noticia/gridder-e-bdc-propostas-vencedoras-do-desafio-ebbe-nielsen-2022.html?lang=pt_BR
    • https://ecoevol.ufg.br/n/160758-ferramenta-biodiversity-data-cleaning-bdc-agraciada-com-o-primeiro-lugar-do-desafio-ebbe-nielsen-2022-do-gbif
    • http://www.ueg.br/noticia/59726trabalhosdeprofessoresdauegsaopremiadosem_eventos
    • https://jhortal.com/geiziane-tessarolo-and-colleagues-win-gbifs-ebbe-nielsen-challenge/

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Published by brunobrr about 3 years ago

bdc - v.1.1.2

  • Fix database version in taxadb::tdcreate inside the bdcquerynamestaxadb.
  • Remove deprecated dplyr::mutateall by dplyr::across in the bdccoordinates_empty.
  • Improve tests for bdccoordinatesempty.
  • Little refactor in bdccleannames fixing CRAN issues with encoding characters (hiding characters into a file and reading them when needed).

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Published by brunobrr about 3 years ago

bdc - v.1.1.1

Notable changes

  • bdccountryfrom_coordinates now filter out countries with no data (NA).
  • fix a minor issue of bdccleannames character encoding on debian-clang CRAN server.

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Published by brunobrr almost 4 years ago

bdc -

Notable changes

  • bugfix in bdc_country_from_coordinates() reported in #209.
  • new argument added to function bdc_coordinates_country_inconsistent
  • Improve tests
  • Add messages when no data is available to create figures and report
  • bdc_coordinates_from_locality: adding error message when there is no column named locality
  • bdc_country_from_coordinates: adding message when there is no record missing country names. Avoiding returning a NULL object.
  • bdc_create_report: adding coordinates transposed to the report; improve test and the message returned
  • bdc_clean_names: adding code to remove strange characters (e.g., accents) from names and return a message when these character were not automatically removed.
  • bdc_coordinates_transposed: avoid error when a column ".summary" is already present in the provided dataset
  • bdc_standardize_datasets: convert all columns to character before merging datasets

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Published by brunobrr almost 4 years ago

bdc - v1.0.0

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Published by brunobrr almost 4 years ago