butterfly 1.1.2 (2025-04-04)

• Rephrased the DESCRIPTION description to avoid “This package” completely (#44).
• I have added British Antarctic Survey as “cph”, as per the LICENSE (#44).

butterfly 1.1.1 (2025-04-02)

DOCUMENTATION FIXES

• Adding rOpenSci Reviewers to DESCRIPTION.
• Updating URLs to match rOpenSci (#43).
• Adding rhub yaml (#43).
• Spelling checks in DESCRIPTION (#43).
• Elaborate package description in DESCRIPTION (#43).
• Changing @returns to @return to comply with tags check (#43)

butterfly 1.1.0 (2025-03-04)

NEW FEATURES

• Adding new butterfly::timeline() function, which checks if a time series is continuous. The user can specify the difference between timesteps expected (#24).
• Adding new butterfly::timeline_group() function, which groups a time series in distinct, but continuous groups (#24).
• Adding new butterflymess dataset, which provides a “messy” version of butterflycount for testing purposes (#33).

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Enabled further passing of waldo parameters (such as tolerance) (#18).
• Improved CONTRIBUTING.md (#29).
• Adding further tests, using butterflymess, to test function response to badly formatted datasets (#33).
• Improved loupe() feedback when there are no new rows (#34).

DOCUMENTATION FIXES

• Added section on contributing to README (#32).
• Improved introduction of main vignette (#35).
• Explicitly mentioned shell scripts are run in Bash (#35).
• Improve description of what loupe() does (#36).
• Elaborate on all.equal(), in addition to waldo::compare() (#36).
• Fix error in catch() description, where it was mentioned the function uses inner_join(), when actually it uses anti_join() (#36).
• Clarified timeline() description on how the expected lag units work for different periods of time (days, weeks) (#39).
• Grammar and punctuation fixes (#35, #36).

butterfly 1.0.0 (2024-10-24)

NEW FEATURES

• Initial release:

  • butterfly::loupe() - examines in detail whether previous values have changed, and returns TRUE/FALSE for no change/change.
  • butterfly::catch() - returns rows which contain previously changed values in a dataframe.
  • butterfly::release() - drops rows which contain previously changed values, and returns a dataframe containing new and unchanged rows.
  • butterfly::create_object_list() - returns a list of objects required by all of loupe(), catch() and release(). Contains underlying functionality.
  • butterflycount - a list of monthly dataframes, which contain fictional butterfly counts for a given date.