finbif v0.9.12

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added a new function to renew access tokens.
• Fixed issue with fetching collection metadata due to upstream API changes

finbif v0.9.11

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added capacity to import new DarwinCore archive formatted FinBIF
  download files.
• Added new variables and filters from upstream API (undocumented).

finbif v0.9.10

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improvements have been made to the way errors in parsing json are handled.

finbif v0.9.9

DEFUNCT

• Importing .ods and .xlsx occurrence data files is now defunct. Users
  should use .tsv download files only.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Occurrence download progress indicator has been simplified.
• Location data parsing (country, region, municipality and local area) has
  been improved.

finbif v0.9.8

DEPRECATION

• Importing .ods and .xlsx occurrence data files has been
  deprecated and will be defunct in a future release.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Caching behaviour has been made more consistent.

finbif v0.9.7

NEW FEATURES

• Record pagination has been simplified and improved so that it should
  not be possible to have duplicate records when using
  finbif_occurrences.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• finbif_last_mod can be used without a filter argument value.

• Error handling for API requests has been improved.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue triggered when multi-filter set requests returned
  zero results.

• Fixed bug triggered when dropping columns of all NA data.

• Fixed an issue with file-based caches timing out correctly.

• Fixed an issue triggered when selecting certain variables and zero
  records were returned.

finbif v0.9.6

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New undocumented variable and filter local added from upstream
  API.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused more records than requested to be
  returned for certain values of n.

finbif v0.9.5

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• A more informative error message is given when requesting an access
  token for an email address that has already been assigned one.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue with reading facts for FinBIF record download files.

• Fixed an issue with readling column names using data.table package
  to ingest FinBIF record download files.

finbif v0.9.4

NEW FEATURES

• New undocumented variable "source" can be selected with
  finbif_occurrence.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Record pagination should now often require less queries of FinBIF
  server and be should be faster.

• FinBIF collections field names have been sanitised.

• When filtering records by "collection_id" a full URL ID can be used
  or a QName.

BUG FIXES

• Reading zero observation data downloads will now produce a zero row
  data.frame instead of triggering an error.

finbif v0.9.3

BUG FIXES

• Fix a bug resulting in the incorrect region being assigned to
  occurrences records.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• New undocumented variables institution_code and collection_code
  can be selected when using functions finbif_collections and
  finbif_occurrence.