September 2024 Release

• Moved taxize package to Suggests, as it is now orphaned.
• studyTaxonList() allows user to skip taxonomic rectification, which relies on functions from taxize package. studyTaxonList() automatically skips taxonomic rectification if taxize is unavailable.

Summer 2024 Release

occCite 0.5.7

• Fixed warning in occCitation() when getting GBIF citations
• Updated date formatting using format() instead of as.character()
• Updated test files to incorporate rgbif 3.8.0 output changes, make more efficient
• In occResults, renamed "Dataset", "DatasetKey", and "DataService" to "datasetName", "datasetKey", "dataService", respectively.
• Made an option for removing package citations

Early August 2022 Release

• Added "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters" column in processed occurrence results table.

Late March 2022

• Minor testing issues addressed to comply with CRAN policies and avoid archiving
• Updated metadata and documentation to reflect joining ROpenSci

March 2022 Update

• Resubmission after archiving due to dependency archiving.
• Functions that rely on getting data from servers via an internet connection now behave more gracefully and informatively when the server cannot be reached.
• Cleaned up a variety of details after review by ROpenSci

October 2021 Update

• Legends for source waffle plots are now wrapped to enhance readability.
• Now fails more gracefully if servers cannot be reached.

July 2021 Update

• In gbifRetriever, changed rgbif::name_suggests to rgbif::name_backbone. More robust for our purposes.
• Now fills in "Dataset" column in GBIF search results from GBIF citation information.
• No longer throws out GBIF occurrences with missing day and month information.

June 2021 Update

• Fixed problem with occCitation that caused an error when dataset keys had no associated BIEN data.

April 2021 Update

• Internal logic made more robust to various error scenarios.
• Now warns user if no taxonomic matches exist for a given name (but doesn't crash!).

February 2020 Update

Updated to resolve conflicts with taxonomic resource name changes in Global Names Resolver.