Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

SoilTaxonomy 0.1.5 (2022-02-15) Unreleased

• taxon_code_to_taxon and taxon_to_level now support family-level taxa with only one class e.g. “Thermic Typic Quartzipsamments”

SoilTaxonomy 0.1.4 (2021-08-05) 2021-08-05

• Update ST_formative_elements / explainST() with subgroup-level descriptions for missing taxa

SoilTaxonomy 0.1.3 (2021-05-02) 2021-05-03

• Add code_to_level to abstract core from taxon_to_level for higher taxa with letter codes
• Add getChildTaxa counterpart to getParentTaxa; getParentTaxa can now be filtered with level argument
• Fixes for stringsAsFactors defaulting to TRUE on R <4.0

SoilTaxonomy 0.1.2 (2021-04-29) 2021-04-30

• Extend explainST to work on Order, Suborder and Great Group taxonomic names
• Add methods level_to_taxon and taxon_to_level to determine where taxa occur in the hierarchy
• New data sets: ST_features, ST_family_classes for diagnostic horizons/features/properties and family-level class names and related content
  • Derived from 12th Edition Keys to Soil Taxonomy definitions and criteria until official release of 13th Edition
  • Data sourced from https://github.com/ncss-tech/SoilKnowledgeBase/ create_KST module JSON output
• Add parse_family method for separating family-level classes from higher taxonomic names
• Add get_ST_features wrapper method for filtering ST_features data set
• Add getLastChildTaxon method to determine last in Keys at specified level (Order, Suborder, or Great Group)

SoilTaxonomy 0.1.1 (2021-03-15) Unreleased

• Re-factored taxon_code_to_taxon & taxon_to_taxon_code to use LEFT JOIN
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package

SoilTaxonomy 0.1 (2021-02-23) 2021-02-25

• Initial CRAN release