NEWS

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ECOTOXr 1.2.4 (2025-09-24)

• Added extra fail-safe to examples
  • Improved test coverage
  • Fix for new stringr release

ECOTOXr 1.2.2 (2025-08-19)

• Added Code of Conduct
  • Improved documentation
  • Improved test coverage
  • Fixed checks such they will pass even when EPA is temporary offline

ECOTOXr 1.2.1 (2025-04-08)

• Improved test coverage
  • Fixed error in units conversion

ECOTOXr 1.2.0 (2025-03-21)

• Added data sanitisers process_ecotox_numerics(), as_numeric_ecotox(), process_ecotox_units(), as_unit_ecotox(), process_ecotox_dates() and as_date_ecotox()
  • Expanded the documentation with vignettes
  • Fixed check upon attach
  • Correction in database specifications
  • Improved test coverage
  • Tested against 2025-03-13 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr 1.1.1 (2024-09-20)

• Added pkgdown generated website
  • Updated documentation
  • Updated database specifications for 2024-09-12 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr 1.0.9 (2024-01-08)

• switched from the 'magrittr' pipe operator (%>%) to R's native pipe operator (|>)
  • switched from 'httr' to 'httr2' dependency
  • Added functions to check the local build and its version
  • Fix in database build routine
  • Fix in manual to pass CRAN checks
  • Explicit mentioning of required versions of dependencies

ECOTOXr 1.0.5 (2023-10-09)

• Added verify_ssl argument to online functions in order to make it easier to try and avert failing certificate checks.
  • Minor fix in CAS handlers

ECOTOXr 1.0.3 (2023-08-21)

• Adjustments to pass latest CRAN checks

ECOTOXr 1.0.2 (2023-06-18)

• Fixes for 2023 June release of the database:
  • Handling of new fields and tables introduced in the new release.
  • Better handler unintended line-feed characters in source material, when building SQLite file.
  • When table primary key is not unique, update table with latest occurrence of the key. This is also reported to EPA.
  • Keeping track of missing tables and fields, and occurrence of unexpected fields while building. These are added to the build log file.

ECOTOXr 1.0.1 (2023-01-08)

• Experimental features for online searching of ECOTOX and CompTox
  • Switched to roxygen2md for documentation and markdown format for NEWS
  • Added life-cycle badges
  • Some minor fixes in the SQLite building routine after the December 2022 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr 0.2.0 (2022-11-17)

• Major changes:
  • Modified searching routines to make advantage of the sql parser and optimisers implemented in the package 'dplyr'. Performance (i.e. speed) of the search routines have improved considerably.
  • Added support for handling Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers.
  • Several minor adjustments and corrections to code and manual. These include fixes to address notes from CRAN checks.

ECOTOXr 0.1.1 (2021-10-05)

• Updates to DESCRIPTION file and manual in order to comply with CRAN policies.
  • Function progress reports are now shown with 'message' instead of 'cat', such that they can be suppressed.

ECOTOXr 0.1.0

• Initial release which can:
  • Download raw ECOTOX database tables from the EPA website
  • Build an SQLite database from those files
  • Search and extract data from the created local database