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• Updated bdc_create_figures: removed outdated dependencies (sp, rgeos), debugged functionality, and added a new "hex" argument.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.

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr 4 months 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.

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr about 2 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/59726_trabalhos_de_professores_da_ueg_sao_premiados_em_eventos
  • https://jhortal.com/geiziane-tessarolo-and-colleagues-win-gbifs-ebbe-nielsen-challenge/

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr about 2 years ago

bdc - v.1.1.2

• Fix database version in taxadb::td_create inside the bdc_query_names_taxadb.
• Remove deprecated dplyr::mutate_all by dplyr::across in the bdc_coordinates_empty.
• Improve tests for bdc_coordinates_empty.
• Little refactor in bdc_clean_names fixing CRAN issues with encoding characters (hiding characters into a file and reading them when needed).

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr about 2 years ago

bdc - v.1.1.1

Notable changes

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

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr almost 3 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

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr about 3 years ago

bdc - v1.0.0

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - R
Published by brunobrr about 3 years ago