Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

traits.build 2.0.0

  • traits.build paper published in Sep 2024 in Ecological Informatics (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102773)
  • Added standard error and standard deviation as value types
  • Moved functions to austraits package and made austraits package a dependancy
  • Renamed some of the functions that are now moved to austraits package
    • bind_databases <– build_combine
    • convert_df_to_list <– util_df_to_list
    • convert_list_to_df1 <– util_list_to_df1
    • convert_list_to_df2 <– util_list_to_df2
  • Renamed functions still also assigned their old name, with a deprecation warning indicating the new name
  • plot_trait_distribution_beeswarm, trait_pivot_longer and trait_pivot_wider had been in both austraits and traits.build packages and have now been removed from traits.build
  • Import new austraits function flatten_database (had been suggested to be database_create_combined_table)
  • Refactoring of test functions used by dataset_test
  • Added tests using the dataset_test function, so it is checked explicitly by traits.build (run on Example datasets)
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Minor updates to ontology (now version 1.0)

traits.build 1.1.0

  • Small bugfixes in dataset_test
  • Add Onotology
  • Add Hex sticker

traits.build 1.0.1

As described in #134, fixes some minor issues with

  • testing of datasets in dataset_test
  • generating of reports
  • standardising of taxonomic names.

traits.build 1.0.0

This is the first major release of the {traits.build} package, providing a workflow to harmonise trait data from diverse sources. The code was originally built to support AusTraits (see Falster et al 2021, doi:10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6, https://github.com/traitecoevo/autraits.build) and has been generalised here to support construction of other trait databases. Detailed instructions are available at