ausplotsR News

Changes in version 2.0.0

Default data download in get_ausplots now only includes $site.info table (and not vegetation point intercept - $veg.PI - nor vegetation vouchers - $veg.vouch as per previous default) due to increasing size of the dataset. Users can still select to extract vegetation point-intercept or vouchers as well as all the other modules available in ausplotsR. All downloaded data objects include a data $citation.
Consistent implementation of logical arguments in functions, meaning some existing calls using character strings as selections will no longer work.

New and improved name standardisation fields according to the Australian Plant Census and Australian Plant Name Index. Original herbarium determinations remain available.
Filter site downloads in get_ausplots based on unique site/visit codes as well as partial code match/wildcard feature. Previously, only the site_location_name code could be used to filter by text match.
Improved handling and interpretation of revisit data:
- Survey visit dates are now presented as R-readable dates in the $visit_date column and the sites table is appended with revisit numbers for each plot (i.e., 1, 2, 3 and so on) to simplify identification of revisits and their chronological order in column $visit_number.
- Visualisation of vegetation change (species composition, diversity or input community indices) along a sequence of visits to a plot with new function ausplots_trajectory.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

Updated basal area calculations where per species values are requested in ‘basal_area’ to better reflect whole site species means (sum of species means = site mean).

Corrected plot order in ausplots_visual. Some plots and sets of visits had missing calculations that upset order and formatting of plots. This has been corrected.
Various minor corrections to avoid nuisance messages.