Scott Chamberlain

to future proof for future gov't shutdowns. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/

git tags and release notes

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we're trying to get all ropensci pkgs to use git tags and release notes, as it's common software practice. In our packaging guide we have some notes on this https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/blob/master/packaging_guide.md#-news...

Allow users to specify jq options

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see the flags under https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Invokingjq section - @richfitz do you know if this is possible? Some of them I think only make sense on the command line outside of R,...

Dont pipe

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Sometimes you don't want to pipe together jq commands. But right now, that's the only option when we `%>%` together commands, they get `|` together Would be nice to have...

Fix flags

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`--stream` and `--seq`

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Modules > Modules are files whose names end in `.jq`

for a single JSON output, like `[program]` instead of `program`

Right now using the new database downloaded rank info - need to allow falling back to using ritis to get that info

vignette on how to contribute a new data source

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- do you make a new pkg and then taxize imports it OR add some code via a PR directly? - instruction on how to hook into the high level...

Extend functions for user specified data sources

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via https://github.com/ropensci/taxa/issues/208 E.g., one could define an s3 method for `classification()` ```r library(taxize) classification.foobar