NEWS
ebvcube 0.5.3 (2026-05-30)
Bug fixes
- ebv_download / ebv_i_check_url: fix undefined variable used as timeout
in external URL connection checks
- ebvcube-package: complete truncated sentence in package-level documentation
Minor changes
- ebv_download: wrap external portal calls (dataset list, metadata,
DOI redirect, file downloads) in tryCatch for informative error messages
ebvcube 0.5.2 (2025-07-29)
Bug fixes
- ebv_create_taxonomy: change 'ebv_spatial_*' to 'ebv_geospatial_*'
- ebv_create_taxonomy: if entity names are NA in the CSV throw error
Minor changes
- ebv_create_taxonomy: update help page regarding taxonomy-key
- changed package maintainer
ebvcube 0.5.1 (2025-06-18)
Minor changes
- ebv_create(_taxonomy): allocate space in cubes during creation, not in in ebv_add_data
Bug fixes
- ebv_create_taxonomy: remove bug in max_char_entity (remove NA)
- ebv_i_utils: remove NA from the char-vectors (taxonomy)
- ebv_i_datacubepath: error if scenario or metric are NA
- ebv_add_data: fillvalue definition was missing
ebvcube 0.5.0 (2025-04-28)
Major changes
- ebv_create_taxonomy:
- renamed entity_list and entity_levels to entity_taxonomy_table and entity_taxonomy_levels (ebv_properties still reads the old naming for now)
- remove lsid and replace by taxonomy_key, add attribute to variable which refers to the name of the entity_taxonomy_key of the authority of the taxonomic backbone (long_name)
- ebv_properties:
- read either from entity_list and entity_levels or entity_taxonomy_table and entity_taxonomy_levels
- read both: lsid and entity_taxonomy_key
Bug fixes
- set ignore_RAM to TRUE for the tests
ebvcube 0.4.0 (2025-03-05)
Major changes
- renamed metadata terms: 'ebv_spatial_scope' to 'ebv_geospatial_scope' and 'ebv_spatial_description' to 'ebv_geospatial_description'
- ebv_create(_taxonomy): add date_metadata_modified and date_modified
- added new metadata terms: publisher_url, creator_url
Minor changes
- ebv_download: add doi (now available in API)
- ebv_properties: add time_coverage_start and time_coverage_end + date_metadata_modified and date_modified
- add new test-data, update tests regarding updated metadata terms and JSONs
Bug fixes
- ebv_create_taxonomy: remove rhdf5-Na.OK attribute from entity_list
- DelayedArray errors on ubuntu dev
ebvcube 0.3.3 (2024-12-17)
Bug fixes
- update EBV Data Portal website URL
ebvcube 0.3.2
Bug fixes
- add read-only flag to test-file (test-ebv_utils.R)
ebvcube 0.3.1 (2024-12-05)
Bug fixes
- correct old url in News.md
ebvcube 0.3.0
Major changes
- new function: ebv_metadata
- new helper functions: ebv_i_vector_intersect, ebv_i_contained, ebv_i_check_iso_res, ebv_i_check_iso_date
- new Shiny App: ebv_taxonomy_app
- add DOI to ebv_create(_taxonomy) and ebv_properties
- GitHub repo transfer to https://github.com/EBVcube/ebvcube/
Minor changes
- ebv_add_data: add argument 'raw' to ignore scale and offset values
Bug fixes
- ebv_download: corrected ID-missmatch when giving ID by title
- ebv_map: fix color scales, fix bug 'length of breaks and labels differ', add scenario to subtitle
- ebv_properties: ensure that metric or datacube argument is given
ebvcube 0.2.3 (2024-07-10)
Bug fixes
- edit test file for ebv_download: make sure the portal website is up
- new helper function: ebv_i_check_url
ebvcube 0.2.1 (2024-06-11)
Bug fixes
- remove old url of codecov from badge
ebvcube 0.2.0
Major changes
- all (affected) functions: define timestep(s) also as an ISO formatted date
- add new arguments: define metric and scenario by name & index instead of the datacubepath
- new function: ebv_create_taxonomy including new utils function ebv_i_char_variable
- add taxonomy-info the ebv_properties
- ebv_create(_taxonomy): if one timestep but start and end date differ, apply end date
Bug fixes
- ebv_map: remove outdated stuff from guide_bins
- ebv_write: DelayedArray 'name' variable was not defined
ebvcube 0.1.7 (2024-02-21)
Major changes
- ebv_download: download via DOI
- ebv_create: lon and lat units changed (see below)
- EBVcube format: geospatial units: 'degrees'/'meters' to 'degree'/'meter'
- ebv_download: return path of netCDF file also if it is already downloaded
Bug fixes
- remove ebv_i_file_opened from the functions
- ebv_read: read-access only
ebvcube 0.1.6 (2023-10-11)
Major changes
- ebv_resample: added more methods
- ebv_create: lower compression to 5
- ebv_download: return path
- ebv_map: col_rev does not reverse the numbers in the legend
Bug fixes
- ebv_download: fix the internet check
- ebv_add_data: array data error (transpose)
- ebv_attribtue: change 'coordinate' to 'coordinates' (black-list attribute)
ebvcube 0.1.4 (2023-04-19)
Major changes
- ebv_properties: speed up for nc with many entities
Bug fixes
- ebv_datacubepaths: implement CRAN feedback - read-only flag was missing at one point
ebvcube 0.1.3 (2023-04-12)
Major changes
- ebv_trend: alter trend-plot (dashed-lines, subtitle)
- ebv_map: correct the display of binary maps
- ebv_create: implemented paleo and irregular dates netCDFs (terranova)
- ebv_create: correct typo: coordinates instead of coordinate for entity coordinate
- ebv_properties: remove backwards compatibility to old standard (before ACDD)
- replaced h5ls by h5dump to make ebv_properties and ebv_datacubepaths faster
- ebv_properties: rename 'timesteps_natural' to 'dates' (changes across functions)
Bug fixes
- ebv_create: contributor_name, content coverage type and domain corrected (comma + white space)
- ebv_i_file_opened: solve error on MAC OS (CRAN)
- ebv_i_eval_epsg: suppress warning by terra when assigning a crs (test error). #23 by Roger Bivand
ebvcube 0.1.2 (2022-11-24)
Major changes
- implement CRAN feedback (ebv_i_file_opened (lsof to fuser), examples and test (writing to user library))
Bug fixes
- ebv_create: keywords for spatial_scope
- ebv_attribute: ebv_cube attributes connected to metric (changes over all scenarios)
ebvcube 0.1.1 (2022-11-09)
Major changes
- implement CRAN feedback (examples(dontrun))
Bug fixes
ebvcube 0.1.0
Major changes
- using ggplot2 for plots
- using terra for geospatial operations (removing dependencies: gdalUtils, rgdal, raster and sp)
Bug fixes
ebvcube 0.0.1
First version of the package