Changes in version 1.9.2 (2026-09-03) - Updated Readme & Description - Compatibility with new rgbif R package v3.9 Changes in version 1.9.1 (2026-08-07) - CRAN compliance v3 Changes in version 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 Changes in version 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 Changes in version 1.7.1 - Updated documentation Changes in version 1.7.0 - Updated documentation - Updated package framework - Package structure and verbose updated Changes in version 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() Changes in version 1.6.2 - Updated examples and documentation - Updated vignettes - Updated get_status() - Corrected example issues and code incompatibility Changes in version 1.6.1 - Updated get_status(): new level parameter - Minor naming fix - Updated get_gbif(): new progress bars Changes in version 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 Changes in version 1.5.3 - Improved documentation of package and get_status() - Updated get_gbif() with new backend support (occ_download parameters) Changes in version 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() Changes in version 1.5.1 - Clarified taxonomic harmonization in get_gbif() documentation - Updated gbif.range Rd Changes in version 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() Changes in version 1.4.7 - Added package-level help page - Updated get_gbif() - Used && in GBIF status checks - Updated .gitignore and README.md Changes in version 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 Changes in version 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 Changes in version 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 Changes in version 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 Changes in version 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.