William Gearty

rredlist: 'IUCN' Red List Client

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Submitting Author Name: William Gearty Submitting Author Github Handle: @willgearty Other Package Authors Github handles: (comma separated, delete if none) @sckott, @maelle Repository: https://github.com/ropensci/rredlist Version submitted: Submission type: Standard Editor:...

Upcoming version of `rredlist` breaks `taxize`

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I'm the maintainer of the `rredlist` package, and I wanted to make you aware that the next version of the `rredlist` package will break the IUCN functions in the `taxize`...

It looks like the RealFavicon API has changed (probably associated with [this](https://x.com/RealFavicon/status/1842953341024031026)), because it no longer returns the same set of favicons. Of the hardcoded filenames in the BS5 template,...

Improve handling of events that aren't pull requests

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Currently, [it's recommended](https://github.com/cran-task-views/ctv/tree/main/validate-ctv) that the workflow be set to run if a push OR pull_request is made. However, if a push was made to the main branch and there were...

Add some wrapper functions for better UX

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This is the first attempt at some wrapper functions to improve the user experience when getting and handling a large number of assessments. 1. `rl_assessment_list()` is a fancy wrapper for...

Occasionally, our checks fail because one or more `palaeorotate()` tests fail. This appears to happen due to the GPlates and/or Zenodo servers being unresponsive. We used to `RETRY` for our...

#134 added the ability to add a title as part of `axis_geo()`. We should update all of our docs, functions, tests, and vignettes to use this more user-friendly method to...

`group_apply()` discussion

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I recently discovered the `base::by()` function, which, when combined with `base::array2DF()` essentially does what `palaeoverse::group_apply()` does, except marginally faster. Here's an example, followed by some benchmarking: ``` r library(palaeoverse) library(microbenchmark)...

Update to new geom defaults in next version of ggplot2

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See https://github.com/thomasp85/ggforce/pull/332 for an example

Check compatibility with ggbreak

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The [ggbreak package](https://cran.r-project.org/package=ggbreak) allows for having different linear scales for parts of an axis. This sounds pretty useful in conjunction with `coord_geo()`, so I should make sure they are compatible...