NEWS

---

flora 0.3.8

• Updated dataset (11th Jan 2024)

flora 0.3.7

• Updated dataset (7th Jul 2022)
• Included the June 2022 MMA threatned species list (7th Jul 2022)

flora 0.3.6

• Updated dataset (18th Mar 2022)

flora 0.3.5

• Updated dataset (7th Jan 2021)

flora 0.3.4 (2020-04-28)

• Updated dataset (10th April 2020)
• Fixed threat statuses

flora 0.3.3

• Updated dataset (6th Feb 2020)
• Threat status now comes from CNC Flora
• Domain and endemism are now available

flora 0.3.2

• Updated dataset (29th Oct 2019)

flora 0.3.1

• Vegetation type and life form are now included in the dataset
• Updated dataset (29th Jan 2019)

flora 0.3.0 (2017-12-04)

• Much improved performance
• Updated dataset (27th Oct 2017)

flora 0.2.9

• New function to retrieve information on vegetation types for a list of taxa ('get_vegtype')

flora 0.2.8 (2017-01-12)

• New function to list all the synonyms of a name ('get.synonyms')
• New functions to get phytogeographic domains ('get_domains')
• Removed shiny from imports

flora 0.2.7 (2016-02-26)

• Updated dataset (21st Feb 2016)
• New parse option in 'get.taxa' to remove authors using the GBIF parser
• Changed the name of the data source from Brazilian Flora Checklist to Brazilian Flora 2020

flora 0.2.6

• Updated dataset (31st July)
• Export taxa in the Phylomatic format

flora 0.2.5

• Updated dataset (April 29th)
• Fixed linkouts in 'web.flora'
• Fixed species occurrences

flora 0.2.4 (2015-03-20)

• Updated dataset (March 15th)
• Added option to crosscheck the returned taxa against the CNC Flora red list

flora 0.2.3 (2014-07-17)

• Fixed the name suggestion code
• More conservative approximate name matching to avoid incorrect suggestions
• Included a slider in the web app to control the name matching conservativeness

flora 0.2.2 (2014-07-03)

• Fixed a bug where duplicate names where not processed correctly
• Speed improvements
• New shiny web app included

flora 0.2 (2014-05-30)

• All needed data is now included in the package. No internet connection needed
• New function 'get.taxa' to get taxonomic data
• New function 'occurrence' to get occurrence data
• New function 'fixCase' to fix name casing
• New function 'lower.taxa' to get downstream taxa
• New function 'remove.authors' to attempt to remove authors from names
• New function 'standardize.names' to standardize taxon names
• New function 'trim' to trim whitespace characters from names
• New function 'vernacular' to search for taxa using vernacular names
• Much improved 'suggest.names'
• 'get.taxon.info' is now deprecated
• 'fmt.taxa' is now deprecated