rbefdata 0.3.5
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* Adds a vizaliation function. Now you can use "bef.portal.vizualize.keywords()" to 
  get a nice wordcoud of your BEFdata portal.  
* Improves the functionality of the bef.portal.get.paperproposal function to return 
  the data instead of returning the information about the proposal.
* Shorter versions of function names now available as aliases  
* Adds helper to get datagroups (title, description, column_count, category_count)
* Adds dataset update function "bef.portal.update.dataset()" 
* Adds freeformat attachment function "bef.portal.attach.to_dataset()" and 
  "bef.portal.attach.to_proposal()"
* Adds helper for categories URLs 
* Admin interface:
  + get categories of a datagroup bef.portal.get.categories_for() 
  + New method to upload categories for harmonization 
* removes the tematres functions as they are now provided via the rtematres 
  package

rbefdata 0.3.4
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* Introduces a helper "bef.extract.metadata()" which is a wrapper to the function 
  attributes() and helps to extract the metadata information of a dataset object. 
* Introduces a helper that opens the URL to a dataset in the browser given an id 
  bef.goto.dataset_page(id).
* Adds base API for tematres bef.tematres.api() to easily exploit the vocabulary. 
* Adds base API for media wiki bef.mediawiki.api() to easily get descriptions of a term 
  from a media wiki. It takes a term and the language of the Wikipedia queried can be changed
  by two character country code Wikipedia uses for its sub domains.
* Adds an upload method for datasets (bef.portal.upload.dataset()). It takes a dataset 
  object (data frame) or file path (to CSV file) for upload and a title.
* Re-factors several functions as well as some names. Defuncts the old deprecates and adds 
  new de-functioned functions. 
* Improves the metadata read from eml (ecological metadata language files) provided by 
  the BEF-Data portal for each dataset. Now also supporting information about related 
  material provided as freeformats for the dataset. 

      x = bef.portal.get.metadata(dataset = 72)
      names(x)
      x$title
      x$abstract
      x$publicationDate
      x$language
      x$creators
      x$authors
      x$intellectualRights
      x$distribution
      x$keywords
      x$taxonomicextent
      x$sampling
      x$spatial_coverage
      x$temporal_coverage
      x$columns
      x$related_material

rbefdata 0.3.3
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* Adds aliases to all functions that omit the portal and tematres in the name e.g 
  bef.portal.get.dataset -> bef.get.dataset 
* Small bugfix release: Removes internet connection test that made tests fail
 

rbefdata 0.3.2 
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* minor bug fix release fixes broken tests 
* Brings back functions under the old names. But now a deprecation warning is displayed. 
  The old function names will be removed in one of the next release cycles.

rbefdata 0.3.1
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* minor bugfix: Changed portal URL in options

rbefdata 0.3  
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* New naming scheme introduced with this version. The names are now scoped via period. Deprecation notice
  is shown for old function names. 

* User credentials can be set globally via `bef.options(user_credentials="your key")`.
  Note this won't affect user provided full urls.

* Download of free format files is now possible. The download folder can be set via the bef.options. 

* Improved wrapper bef.portal.get()

* fixed error on empty fields in xml 

rbefdata 0.2 
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* New function `bef.getdata()` that wraps around all the getter functions of 
  the BEFdata R package. So you can use the function to retrieve datasets, metadata 
  as well as all associated datasets from a paper proposal and a range of datasets 
  in one step if you provide the ids.

* New functions `bef.searchTematres("keyword")`, `bef.searchTematresUpper("keyword")`, and 
  `bef.searchTematresLower("keyword")` to query keywords from a tematres thesaurus server. 
  You can set the URL via the `bef.options(tematres_url="http://your.url.com")` function

rbefdata 0.1  
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* Initial setup of the BEFdata R package. It provided basic functionality 
  to query data and metadata from a BEFdata portal dataset.
