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letsRept NEWS

Version 1.1.0 — 2025-10-20

• General:
  • Official manuscript release https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/24329
  • Package website release https://joao-svalencar.github.io/letsRept/
  • improved functions documentation (corrected errors and missing information)
  • updated internal datasets (RDB September 2025 version)
  • updated vignettes
• internal functions:
  • safeParallel modified to safely stop all clusters upon user interruption
  • implemented safeRequest to safely address server workload
  • clean_species_names, fixed hyphened names like “Simotes tri-notatus”
• reptAdvancedSearch:
  • improved output in case of detecting single species (when searching for synonyms) = reptSearch
• reptCompare:
  • implemented argument compareDataset to detect missing names in comparison with another dataset

-reptSpecies: - Only runs with parallel sampling, default is cores = 1.

• reptSplitCheck:
  • implemented argument exact for optional search only for exact matches
• reptSync:
  • status “synonymization” changed to “merge”
  • try fuzzy match before giving status “not_found”
  • added statuses “updated_typo” and “fuzzy_ambiguous” after fuzzy match
• reptSynonyms:
  • Now works with vectors of valid names, does not require species links.
  • Only runs with parallel sampling, default is cores = 1.

Version 1.0.1 — 2025-08-23

• Fixed CRAN test issues by skipping network-dependent tests.
• Made parallel calls safe on macOS (cores = 1 for tests).
• Minor bugfixes and test updates.

Version 1.0.0 — 2025-08-05

The package was renamed to letsRept

Major changes

• reptSync() was fully redesigned for improved performance and flexibility. This change breaks compatibility with previous versions.
• Added new function reptSplitCheck(). This function checks for potential taxonomic splits departing from a user defined date.
• Added new function reptTidySyn(). This function prints to the console the outcomes of reptSync and reptSplitCheck with an optional “filter” argument.
• Added new function reptCompare(). This function compares a user species list with the internal dataset or with a subset provided by users
• Added new function reptRefs(). This function retrieves the references and links to access them from a species account.
• Added new function reptStats(). This function summarizes higher taxa information.
• Added helper splitCheck() to support reptSplitCheck().

Other changes

• I updated and expanded the vignettes to include the major changes

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