Wallace v2.1.3

What's Changed

• Fixed NULL error in poccs_selectOccs Rmd code
• Updated JK's email
• Added model name (FC + RM) to file name when prediction downloaded
• Fixed vis_responsePlot knitting to Rmd
• Fixed predictor variable bug in vis_responsePlot Rmd
• Fixed NA value warning in userEnvs
• Fixed broken function to disable xfer_time when using envs_userEnvs
• Replaced raster::getdata with geodata functions
• WorldClim v2.1 bioclimatic variables now available for Envs & Xfer_time!
• Added tryCatch for querying worldclim data (envs_wc & xfer_time)

Wallace v2.1.2

Wallace v2.1.2

• Fixed FAIL in test_occs_queryDB
• Fixed bug in error msgs for xfer_time
• Fixed broken link in v1 vignette
• Added markdown to imports
• Updated team members

Wallace 2.1.1

This is the new version of Wallace after the retirement of the rgeos, rgdal, and maptools.
Since v2.0.0, this version has added:

• Add install.packages from CRAN in the vignette
• Remove BISON as option to download occurrences due to it is no longer available in spooc package (i.e. rbison archived in CRAN, and BISON data is available via GBIF).
• Workaround for test when fails to download data from vertnet and ecoClimate
• Fix conditional in test for occs_queryDB
• Added Spanish translation of vignette
• Updates to v2 vignette
• skip_on_cran() added to several tests
• added try() to test_envs_worldclim.R
• fixed broken links in guidance texts refs
• fixed typo in thinOccs documentation
• Removed paleobioDB (package off CRAN)
• Removed rgdal (package expiring)
• Changed Maintainer e-mail
• Removed rgeos (package expiring)
• Updated team bios
• Added clarification to occs_queryDb guidance text
• Added error msgs to xfer_time
• Fixed bug in occ density grid & niche overlap
• Updated licensing
• Updated developers & pkg maintainer

Wallace v2.0.0

What is new in this version?

1. Stop and start your work whenever you want: This version allows you to save a session partway through the workflow and then restart it. Try this out via the “Save session” tab if you think that is something that matches the way you would run analyses (intermediate-to-advanced users).

2. Greater reproducibility regarding occurrence records: As a step towards greater documentation and reproducibility in biodiversity informatics, this version of Wallace provides an option of querying GBIF and receiving a DOI for the data provided. If you are already a registered GBIF user, check the “Include Data Source Citations” option under the Query Database (Present) module of the OccData component.

3. Cross-time transfers: If you will later be interested in transferring your models to estimates of future (or past) climate, try out the updated Transfer component. This version now has data from WorldClim and EcoClimate (which also has reconstructed data for the past). Make your original model with the same climatic data source that you would like to use for transferring across time periods.

4. Make models for multiple species in the same Wallace session: This advancement supports two important other functionalities: comparisons of species in environmental space (see below). If you are interested in either of these, try making models for more than one species now. To get the data to do this, in the OccData component either run the query multiple times or do it once with scientific names separated by commas. Then, in later components use the pull-down menu in the top center of the interface to indicate the species that you want to work with.

5. Environmental space comparisons: It may not be as directly linked to conservation as many of the other advances, but this version now has several modules in the EnvSpace component, which allows users to examine characteristics of environmental space across species, like niche overlap. If this matches your research interests (for academic purposes, or to study invasive species, for example), try them out.

6. Redesigned R-markdown functionalities: Because of the way this version of Wallace is redesigned, it now makes the documentation files in a new way (Reproduce component). In addition to making sure that you can download the documentation in ways readable to humans (like pdf), it would be helpful to the development team to have users download the executable RMD code and confirm that it runs successfully in R (intermediate-to-advanced users).

Summary of new features:

• General - Several species in the same session
• General - New download sub-tab at each component
• General - Save and reload session
• Occs - PaleobioDB - Fossil occs (New module!)
• Occs - BIEN (New option!)
• Occs - GBIF OccCite (New option!)
• Occs - Delimitator and Separator (New option!)
• Envs - EcoClimate (New module, including paleo reconstructions!)
• General - Select variables with pickerInput
• General - Batch option (to repeat decisions for other species)
• Process Env - Draw polygon (New module!)
• Environmental Space - NEW COMPONENT with various new modules
• Model - maxnet and maxent.jar - Categorical variables (New option!)
• Model - maxnet and maxent.jar - Parallel (New option!)
• Vis - New bioclim plot
• Vis - New maxent plots
• Vis - mapPred - New threshold option
• Xfer - userXfer - User specified rasters
• Xfer - user background extent (New Option!)
• Xfer - user-specified transferring extent (New option!)
• Xfer - New Time - Ecolimate (New Option!)
• Rep - RMD - New Structure
• Rep - Metadata - based on rangeModelMetadata package (New module!)
• Rep - RefPackages (New module!)

Wallace v.1.1 - Compatibility with ENMeval v2

There is a new version of ENMeval v2 (thanks to the awesome work of @jamiemkass). We needed to make some internal changes on Wallace to make it compatible with ENMeval. The only changes that you will see in the interface are the new evaluation plots.

Wallace v1.0.6

Wallace no longer needs rJava to run! Oh happy days! Wallace is now compatible with ENMeval 0.3.0, which now has no rJava dependency and runs Maxent using maxnet by default (CRAN package maxnet; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecog.03049). This means Wallace no longer loads rJava automatically when using the ENMeval partition functions or running Maxent. You can still select the Java implementation of Maxent by choosing "maxent.jar" in the Maxent module, whereupon rJava will load. Below are more changes:

• Wallace now works on computers that error when some non-ASCII characters are used. This problem was discovered during a workshop in Vietnam on some Chinese computers.
• Users can now select bioclimatic variables when using 30 arc second data.
• Added more instructions on how to troubleshoot installing rJava.
• Occurrence points with NA environmental values now disappear from the map.
• We also fixed some other small bugs dealing with the shiny code and Markdown file.
• MESS color gradient.
• Small changes in text guidance.

Thanks to Wallace Google Group users and those who raised Github issues.

Wallace v1.0.5

Again, thank you Wallace Google Group users and those who raised Github issues for helping to improve Wallace! We fixed a lot of bugs and added some requested functionality with this version. Most importantly, we now have a vignette! Below are the changes, which you can also find in the NEWS file.

• A brand new vignette was finally added to our website. Please find it here: https://wallaceecomod.github.io/vignettes/wallace_vignette.html
• Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper published in April 2018 -- DOI remains the same.
• The lambdas file for each Maxent model can now be viewed in a subtab of Results.
• Projections in the Project component no longer overlap with map predictions from the Visualize component.
• Added more options to Draw toolbar to allow users to erase drawn polygons. Until leaflet.extras enables programmatic removal of drawn polygons again, the Reset button will only reset the data, and not affect polygons.
• Pagination was added back to the model results table.
• Enabled download of the model results table as .csv.
• Removed the pop-up field from the occurrence table for downloads.
• Fixed a problem with downloading rasters as .png.
• Fixed bug that made the app crash if Project is selected after pressing Reset to remove the polygon in the Project component.
• There is now a check to see that rgdal is installed before downloads of rasters are allowed. This turns out to be an issue with raster package, as the rgdal dependency for this function doesn't seem to be functional.
• The slider for regularization multipliers is now restricted to a minimum of 0.5, and is able to be set to increments of 0.5. An RM value of 0 caused errors for Hinge models, and it's not clear whether RM of 0 is recommendable for other FCs, so it was removed.
• In the highly improbable case users select all points in the Select Occs module, the app now does not crash, and instead informs the user to select a subset instead.

Wallace v1.0.4

Some small changes below. Thank you again Wallace Google Group users, and those who raised Github issues, for helping to improve Wallace!

• Fixed the mapped display for the user-drawn polygon in Module: Select Occurrences On Map so that it remains displayed after the Finish button is pressed.
• Changed all system.file() calls to files in the wallace package to relative paths, which ensures that in those cases where the user downloads from Github and doesn't have the package installed from CRAN, or the package being developed is not the one installed from CRAN, the correct files can be found. To make this work, the folders inst/Rmd, inst/css, and inst/js have been moved to inst/shiny. An exception is the run_wallace() function, which retains system.file() because it is not in the inst/shiny folder.
• Fixed the intro tab text formatting and added a bulleted list.
• Minor changes to simplify code.
• Added link to DOI of Early View manuscript in MEE.

Wallace v1.0.3

This release has some small cosmetic changes to the UI and some bugs fixed. Thank you Wallace Google Group for your help identifying bugs! Please see the NEWS.md for more details.

Wallace v1.0.0

This Github version of v1.0.0 includes a preliminary vignette, the Travis .yml, the Selenium .jar necessary for developing RSelenium tests, and the .Rproj file. Besides the vignette, these files are related to development, and were removed from the CRAN version. The vignette will be updated in the near future for the next version.