NEWS
rnpn 1.4.1.9000
- Reverts required R version from ≥ 4.1.0 to ≥ 3.5.0.
rnpn 1.4.1 (2025-08-25)
- -9999 is now converted to
NA for all columns in data returned by npn_download_*() functions (#119, #121).
- compatibility with vcr v2.0.0 (fixed in #125 by @skott)
Bug fixes
- fixed bug that caused some
npn_download_*() functions to error when sections of the data were NA (#107 reported by @ezylstra)
- Fixed a bug where returned value of
npn_get_point_data() was inconsistent depending on whether it was cached or not (same bug and solution as #42)
- Fixed a bug in data download functions that errored uniformatively if no data was returned. Now an empty tibble is returned.
rnpn 1.4.0 (2025-03-25)
New features
npn_download_individual_phenometrics() and npn_download_site_phenometrics() gain period_start and period_end arguments for defining a custom "window" or season for phenometrics.
Deprcations & changes
- The
speciesid argument of npn_stations_with_spp() has been deprecated in favor of species_id for uniformity.
- Changed behavior of
kingdom arguments in npn_species_state() and npn_species_types(). Now provide either "Plantae", "Animalia", or c("Plantae", "Animalia") (the default). A column for kingdom is added to the return value of npn_species_types().
- The
return_all argument of npn_get_phenophases_for_taxon() has been deprecated. Use date = "all" to return data for all dates instead. return_all = 1 will continue to work (with a warning) in this version.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug that caused an error when
agdd_layer was used in download functions.
- Download times and memory requirements had increased drastically with changes to phenometrics functions in v1.3.0 (#104). This is now fixed with #105. The only user-facing difference should be that there is no longer a progress indicator when retrieving data (sorry about that).
rnpn 1.3.0 (2025-03-05)
Dependency changes
nnpn no longer depends on the sp or raster packagesterra is now a suggested dependency and users will be prompted to install it only when it is neededrnpn now requires the xml2 package instead of XMLrnpn now has dplyr as a dependency instead of plyrrnpn now uses httr2 instead of httr and curl internally for functions that get observational data- data download functions now return tibbles instead of
data.table objects. rnpn no longer depends on data.table
Changes to function arguments
npn_phenophase_details() now takes a vector of phenophase IDs rather than a list- Documented a behavior of
npn_species_type() where setting kingdom to NULL returns results for both Plantae and Animalia.
... is no longer used for functions that get observational data
Changes to function outputs
- Functions that previously returned
data.frame objects now return tibbles. Where they previously returned NULL on errors, they now return empty 0x0 tibbles.
- Missing values returned by download functions are now automatically converted from -9999 to
NA
- Missing values returned by
npn_stations_by_state() previously returned as the string "emptyvalue" are now returned as NAs.
npn_groups(use_hierarchy = TRUE) now returns a nested list rather than a tibble with a list-column.npn_abundance_categories(), npn_phenophases_by_species(), and npn_get_phenophases_for_taxon() now return tibbles with any list-columns unnested.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug (#42) where returned value of
npn_get_agdd_point_data() was inconsistent depending on whether it was cached or not.
rnpn 1.2.9
NEW FEATURES
- Fixed failed tests due vignette calling geoserver directly
rnpn 1.2.8
NEW FEATURES
- Fixed failed tests due to server migration
rnpn 1.2.7
NEW FEATURES
- Migrate back end to cloud instances
rnpn 1.2.6 (2023-08-30)
NEW FEATURES
- Remove rgdal dependencies
- Update maintainer to Jeff Switzer
rnpn 1.2.5 (2022-04-20)
NEW FEATURES
- New vignette, #8 on Data Cleaning
- Changes to reflect repository being transferred from ropensci to usa-npn in github
rnpn 1.2.4 (2021-11-10)
NEW FEATURES
- Skipping more API-dependent unit tests.
rnpn 1.2.3 (2021-10-25)
NEW FEATURES
- Skipping failing API-dependent unit tests and improved documentation.
rnpn 1.2.2 (2021-10-05)
NEW FEATURES
- Fixing failing unit tests
rnpn 1.2.1 (2021-04-07)
NEW FEATURES
- Fixing failing unit tests
rnpn 1.2.0 (2021-03-23)
NEW FEATURES
- Graceful fails when NPN data services are unavailable
rnpn 1.1.1 (2020-12-02)
NEW FEATURES
- Total overhaul of the rNPN package
- Added functions for directly downloading different observation record data types
- Added additional utility and lookup type functions
- Added functions for downloading USA-NPN raster data and geospatial values by latitude/longitude
- Deprecated the following functions: lookup_names, npn_allobssp, npn_indsatstations, npn_indspatstations, npn_species_comm, npn_species_itis, npn_species_sci, npn_stationsbystate, npn_stationswithspp
rnpn 0.1.0 (2016-04-20)
NEW FEATURES