finch 0.4.0

BUG FIXES

• fix various package imports: plyr and rappdirs no longer needed; import EML::read_eml instead of the whole package; import digest::digest instead of whole package; import hoardr::hoard instead of whole package (#27)

finch 0.3.0

BUG FIXES

• fix to unit tests and dwc_read() for a new version of EML package (v0.2) (#26) thanks @cboettig

finch 0.2.0

CACHING CHANGES

Caching has changed in finch. We changed to using package hoardr for managing caching. Now with hoardr on the package loading we create an object that holds methods and info about where to cache, with operating specific routes. In addition, you can set your own cache directory (and we do this in examples/tests using a temp dir instead of user dir).

The old functions dwca_cache_delete, dwca_cache_delete_all, dwca_cache_details, and dwca_cache_list are defunct and replaced with the single dwca_cache object. The dwca_cache object is an R6 object that has methods/functions and variables. See the ?dwca_cache and ?finch-defunct manual files for details.

BUG FIXES

• fix to dwca_read(): ... wasn’t being passed on to data.table::fread internally (#18) (#19) thanks @gustavobio !

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• replaced Suggested package httr with crul (#16)
• using markdown docs now (#24)
• improvement to dwca_read() to download zip files as binary because without that wasn’t working on Windows machines (#17) thanks @gustavobio !
• fix for failures on CRAN: don’t write to user directory in examples/tests (#23)

finch 0.1.0

NEW FEATURES

• Released to CRAN.