ECOTOXr v1.0.9 (Release date: 2024-01-07)

• 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 v1.0.5 (Release date: 2023-10-09)

• Added verify_ssl argument to on-line functions in order to make it easier to try and avert failing certificate checks.

• Minor fix in CAS handlers

ECOTOXr v1.0.3 (Release date: 2023-08-21)

• Adjustments to pass latest CRAN checks

ECOTOXr v1.0.2 (Release date: 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 v1.0.1 (Release date: 2023-01-01)

• Experimental features for on-line 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 v0.2.0 (Release date: 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 v0.1.1 (Release date: 2021-10-04)

• 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 v0.1.0 (Release date: 2021-10-03)

• 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