gbif.range 1.9.2

• Updated Readme & Description
• Compatibility with new rgbif R package v3.9

gbif.range 1.9.1

• CRAN compliance v3

gbif.range 1.9.0

• Added merge_range()
• Improved speed of get_range()
• Corrected cluster convergence bug in get_range()
• Corrected column error when get_status set with level = "all"
• CRAN compliance v2
• Corrected documentation
• Added gbif_have() helper for example run

gbif.range 1.8.0

• Move manuscript plots in a dedicated vignette
• Updated the examples and vignettes
• Lower the size and time length of the examples
• Debugging
• Documentation updated
• CRAN compliance v1

gbif.range 1.7.1

• Updated documentation

gbif.range 1.7.0

• Updated documentation
• Updated package framework
• Package structure and verbose updated

gbif.range 1.6.3

• Added pkgdown website
• Added Part 0 vignette “Getting Started” with pre-computed figures
• Updated all vignettes with pre-computed figures
• Updated README.md
• Updated parameters in get_gbif() and get_status()

gbif.range 1.6.2

• Updated examples and documentation
• Updated vignettes
• Updated get_status()
• Corrected example issues and code incompatibility

gbif.range 1.6.1

• Updated get_status(): new level parameter
• Minor naming fix
• Updated get_gbif(): new progress bars

gbif.range 1.6.0

• Added disk-based batch workflow for large multi-species GBIF exports: split_gbif_by_species(), species_csvs_to_ranges(), read_range_rds()
• Added Collate field to DESCRIPTION for explicit R file load ordering
• Added three focused workflow vignettes
• Updated README.md with Vignettes section

gbif.range 1.5.3

• Improved documentation of package and get_status()
• Updated get_gbif() with new backend support (occ_download parameters)

gbif.range 1.5.2

• Added area_data: bundled dataset of gbif.range- vs. IUCN-derived range area estimates, added alongside new examples mirroring the draft paper plots.
• Updated test routine
• Updated get_status()

gbif.range 1.5.1

• Clarified taxonomic harmonization in get_gbif() documentation
• Updated gbif.range Rd

gbif.range 1.5.0

• Polished documentation and CI
• Updated evaluation functions and examples
• Added get_gbif_count(): estimate record volume before downloading
• Changing functions name to: make_ecoreg(), get_ecoreg(), check_and_get_ecoreg()

gbif.range 1.4.7

• Added package-level help page
• Updated get_gbif()
• Used && in GBIF status checks
• Updated .gitignore and README.md

gbif.range 1.4.0

• Added evaluate_range(): validate range maps against independent distribution data (SDMs, IUCN polygons) with precision, sensitivity, specificity, and TSS
• Added cv_range(): cross-validate a get_range() output against its own occurrence data using spatial or random folds
• Added make_blocks(): split observations into balanced random or spatially structured folds for cross-validation workflows
• Added area_data: bundled dataset of gbif.range- vs. IUCN-derived range area estimates for validation examples
• Added internal helper functions (helpers.R) for argument checking and shared utilities across functions
• Introduced formal R5 reference classes getRange and getGBIF (classes.R) to store function outputs with their original arguments
• Added check_and_get_bioreg() and get_bioreg() as helpers for ecoregion download and caching

gbif.range 1.1.0

• Added make_ecoregion(): build custom ecoregion layers from environmental rasters via k-means clustering
• Moved dependencies from Depends to Imports for cleaner namespace handling.
• Added sf and cluster as dependencies
• Expanded get_range() with additional ecoregion flexibility and resolution control via the res argument

gbif.range 1.0.0

• First stable release under the name gbif.range on GitHub
• Full migration from raster to terra (SpatRaster/SpatVector compatibility)
• Renamed get_taxonomy() to get_status(): added IUCN Red List status retrieval and infra-specific taxa (subspecies, varieties) lookup
• Improved get_gbif() synonym handling and tiling robustness
• Added read_ecoreg() and ecoreg_list for bundled ecoregion management

gbif.range 0.2.0

• Renamed package from wsl.gbif to gbif.range
• Same for function containing ‘wsl’: wsl_doi() to get_doi(), wsl_gbif() to get_gbif(), wsl_obs_filter() to obs_filter()
• Added get_range(): ecoregion-constrained species range inference
• Added conv_function(): internal polygon builder used by get_range()
• Added get_taxonomy() (later renamed get_status()): GBIF backbone taxonomy inspection including accepted names and synonyms
• Expanded get_gbif() with dynamic moving-window tiling for > 100,000 records and improved synonym-aware downloads
• Added ClusterR, FNN, geometry, mclust, and rgeos as dependencies

wsl.gbif 0.1.0

• First release under the name wsl.gbif() (October 2022), hosted on EnviDat (10.16904/envidat.352) and GitHub (https://github.com/8Ginette8/wsl.gbif)
• Core functions: wsl_gbif() (occurrence download with synonym support), wsl_obs_filter() (grid-based occurrence thinning), wsl_taxonomy() (GBIF backbone taxonomy lookup), wsl_doi() (GBIF-derived DOI generation), make_tiles() (geographic tiling for rgbif)
• Credential-free GBIF download with 13 post-processing filters via CoordinateCleaner
• Dynamic moving-window tiling for datasets exceeding 100,000 observations.