Changes in version 1.4.1.9000                      

  - Reverts required R version from ≥ 4.1.0 to ≥ 3.5.0.

                 Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 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).

                 Changes in version 1.3.0 (2025-03-05)                  

Dependency changes

  - nnpn no longer depends on the sp or raster packages
  - terra is now a suggested dependency and users will be prompted to
    install it only when it is needed
  - rnpn now requires the xml2 package instead of XML
  - rnpn now has dplyr as a dependency instead of plyr
  - rnpn 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.

                        Changes in version 1.2.9                        

NEW FEATURES

  - Fixed failed tests due vignette calling geoserver directly

                        Changes in version 1.2.8                        

NEW FEATURES

  - Fixed failed tests due to server migration

                        Changes in version 1.2.7                        

NEW FEATURES

  - Migrate back end to cloud instances

                 Changes in version 1.2.6 (2023-08-30)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Remove rgdal dependencies
  - Update maintainer to Jeff Switzer

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 1.2.4 (2021-11-10)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Skipping more API-dependent unit tests.

                 Changes in version 1.2.3 (2021-10-25)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Skipping failing API-dependent unit tests and improved
    documentation.

                 Changes in version 1.2.2 (2021-10-05)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Fixing failing unit tests

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2021-04-07)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Fixing failing unit tests

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2021-03-23)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - Graceful fails when NPN data services are unavailable

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 0.1.0 (2016-04-20)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - released to CRAN