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version 1.3.0

In this release, sbtools underwent a significant migration from josso login to keycloak-based two factor authentication. See #314 for details of the changes.

A vignette showing the old and new login methods is now included see: vignette("sbtools")

In addition to login modifications, a pkgdown site was created, and the package code was reorganized significantly.

  • Added initialize_sciencebase_session() to support tokenized login.
  • Sciencebase session object no longer returned by authenticate_sb()
  • current_session() now returns the active login token.
  • Removed session_logout() and session_age_reset() there is now an internal function sbtools:::clean_session() to accomplish the same goal.
  • Removed sbtools_DELETE() as the method is no longer the accepted way to delete sciencebase items.
  • Modified item deletion functions to use a delete helper that ensures files are removed from all locations.

Version 1.2.0 (2023-04-28)

CRAN release: 2023-04-30

  • added item_publish_cloud() to push files to S3 public cloud storage. #302
  • update URLs for new repository. #303
  • improved handling of authentication and invalid logins
  • check error messages for firewall blocks

Version 1.1.21 (2022-11-03)

CRAN release: 2022-11-03

  • All web calls now use httr::RETRY() to be a bit more robust. #213
  • Password management can now be done with the keyring
  • File uploads for very large files should now be more robust with longer time out tolerances.

Version 1.1.20 (2022-10-27)

CRAN release: 2022-10-28

Added checksum validation to both regular and cloud uploads.

Version 1.1.19 (2022-07-14)

CRAN release: 2022-07-14

CRAN checks on failing donttest examples.

Version 1.1.18 (2022-05-26)

CRAN release: 2022-05-26

  • Added support for cloud file upload and download. See item_upload_cloud() and item_list_files() and item_file_download().
  • Added ability to pull jossoSessionId from session_details(), This is useful for pulling files directly from sciencebase via R functions that do not use the sbtools session for authentication. See session_details() description for more.
  • Removed deprecated item_get_wfs() function.
  • Renamed master branch to main.
  • Added facets to locations that sciencebase files can be found. See item_list_files() description for more info. Note that the response from item_list_files() has changed. A “facet” attribute which lists the name of the facet the file came from is included.

Version 1.1.16/1.1.17 (2021-07-01)

CRAN release: 2021-07-01

Versions 1.1.16 and 1.1.17 were minor changes for CRAN.

Version 1.1.15 (2021-06-07)

CRAN release: 2021-06-04

  • Added scrape_files parameter to item_upload_files() and item_append_files()
  • Fixed CRAN check issues with ScienceBase availability. 10 second timeout was added for all web service calls.

Version 1.1.14 (2020-03-01)

CRAN release: 2021-02-16

Version 1.1.10 to 1.1.14 are all minor changes for CRAN.

Version 1.1.9 (2020-01-07)

CRAN release: 2020-01-08

  • Fixed travis build and addressed CRAN test failures.
  • Deprecated item_get_wfs – will be removed in a future version.
  • Changed maintainer to
  • See repository for other updates.

Version 1.1.3 (2016-08-18)

CRAN release: 2016-08-19

  • Fix items_create to properly handle cases creating one item

  • Add sbtools to user agent string

  • Alter item_list_children to use query_sb so item return limit can be > 1000. raw option removed to support this functionality.

Version 1.0.3 (2016-06-30)

  • Fix item_rm bug

Version 1.0.2 (2016-06-22)

CRAN release: 2016-06-23

  • Cleanup for CRAN release

Version 0.19.3 (2016-06-17)

  • Bunch of changes from reviews

  • item_get_parent now returns sbitem, not just ID

  • fixed probablem with query_sb_doi

  • query_sb_spatial no longer has awkard bounding box specification, just uses lat/long arrays and determines box from those

  • sb_ping returns boolean TRUE/FALSE for success/fail

  • set_endpoint no longer includes verbose message and properly uses match.arg

  • item_list_children now returns list of sbitem to be uniform with rest of sbtools

  • Lots of documentation updates and new demos

Version 0.18.5 (2016-06-01)

  • Fixed issue with query_sb_datatype

  • New and improved item_get_wfs. Better performance and no longer requires hard-to-install external dependencies.

Version 0.18.0 (2016-04-10)

  • Improved version of query_sb() now requests useful metadata so sbitem list has key metadata

  • query_item_identifier() now returns an sbitem list instead of a data.frame. Also, *_item_identifier() funcitons now have unified parameter order

Version 0.17.0 (2016-04-10)