icesVocab 1.3.2 (2025-05-26)

• bug fix in get requests with spaces in keys. Url encoding is now used to encode spaces as %20 in the URL.
• CamelCase function adapted to work with NULL values
• If code not found, functions return NULL instead of mixed return type

icesVocab 1.3.1 (2025-05-01)

• Switched to new webservices returning JSON instead of XML.
• Added caching of webservice calls to avoid repeated calls to the same service.
• Added new function getCodeTypeRelation() to get the lookup table of relation between code types, such as between fish stock and area code.

icesVocab 1.2.0 (2022-02-10)

• Internal bug fixes

icesVocab 1.1.10 (2021-09-13)

• Use read_xml to read directly from url to avoid local encodings when using download.file

icesVocab 1.1.9 (2020-10-26)

• Keys for all codes are always characters

icesVocab 1.1.8 (2020-09-28)

• internal bug fixes changes

icesVocab 1.1.7 (2020-09-17)

• remove options(warn = -1) from internal simplify function

icesVocab 1.1.6 (2020-09-09)

• made example ‘donttest’, findAphia fails gracefully if web service is down, and examples reinstated

icesVocab 1.1-4 (2019-03-12)

• made all examples ‘dontrun’ as errors in database were causing r package build failures.

icesVocab 1.1-3 (2019-03-12)

• Switched to using https route to webservice to fix errors introduced by http redirection from http to https on the web server for systems unable to handle http redirection.

icesVocab 1.1-2 (2016-12-08)

• Fixed mistake in using wget method in download.file. Now if download.file is unsuccessful, the slower url() function will be used place.

icesVocab 1.1-0 (2016-12-08)

• Added function findAphia() to look up species codes.
• Added function findCode() to look up codes given a code type.
• Added function findCodeType() to look up code types.
• Improved XML parsing, so both leading and trailing white space is removed.
• Improved XML parsing, so “” and “NA” is converted to NA.
• Improved XML parsing of code details so that child and parent relations are returned.
• Improved url reading to avoid the use of RCurl.

icesVocab 1.0-0 (2016-09-15)

• Initial release.