Changelog • wildRtrax

wildRtrax 1.2.0

wt_chop() now recurses across all input files
Moving geospatial assets to new repository to lighten package size. Asset requests are now made only through usage of wt_qpad_offsets().

Improvements to APIs and acoustic convenience functions to resolve issues and PRs
Improvements to test suite, testing dependencies, code coverage
Addition of Camera data wrangling vignette and additional tutorials

wildRtrax now honours new WildTrax report structures. Future changes will incorporate standardized naming in syncing functions.
Replaced geospatial functionalities from rgdal, rgeos and maptools with sf, sp and terra packages. Added functionality with the suntools package. Users should re-download the package by October 2023 in-line with the former package retirement: https://geocompx.org/post/2023/rgdal-retirement/.

Tweaks to Acoustic data wrangling for (#16)
Addition of geospatial assets. Users should be warned package size is now ~40 MB.
Moved TMTT predictions from csv to .RDS file.
Work flow repairs to wt_get_species() and wt_tidy_species() (#21)
Replaced utils::read.csv() to readr::read_csv() in wt_download_report() (#20)

Improvements to wt_audio_scanner()
- Addition of flac as file type
- Addition of extra_cols argument to enable faster scanning when argument is set to FALSE. This also deals with headerless file errors for (#2)
- Enabled parallel file scanning; microbenchmarked base scanning at 5.6x faster on a dual-core machine
- Moved progress bars to the progressr package
Addition of wt_glean_ap() function to acoustic pre-processing work flow to extract desired data from a wt_run_ap() output
Addition of linking functions in order to add desired media and metadata to WildTrax: wt_make_aru_tasks(), wt_kaleidoscope_tags() and wt_songscope_tags()
Addition of convenience functions: wt_location_distances() and wt_chop()
Alignment of wt_download_report() with column headers released in WildTrax Phase 8 to resolve (#3, #4, #5)
Addition of additional acoustic functions to prepare data for analysis: wt_replace_tmtt(), wt_make_wide(), wt_format_occupancy(), wt_qpad_offsets()
Addition of wt_get_species() to download the WildTrax species table and wt_tidy_species() to filter various taxa
Addition of wt_download_tags() to download images, spectrograms and audio clips from tags
Experimental testing of customizable, automated reports with wt_report()
Long-form documentation available for full-cycle environmental work flows and new articles for usage of acoustic and camera data analysis functions

Moved wt_run_ap() to furrr::future_map from dopar loop to lessen package dependencies
Quiet console output from wt_run_ap() for Windows users
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package
Renamed wt_ind_det to wt_ind_detect()