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ReLTER

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An Interface for the eLTER Community. Contribute to ropensci/ReLTER development by creating an account on GitHub.

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An interface to Europe's long-term ecosystem research network that went quiet after 2.0.

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◆Current state
ReLTER provides programmatic access to the eLTER network — the European long-term ecosystem research infrastructure — pulling site metadata, datasets and activities from DEIMS-SDR and enriching them with taxonomic resolution via PESI and WORMS and raster layers from European OpenDataScience. Version 1.0.0 consolidated the function surface and passed into rOpenSci review; 1.1.0 addressed the reviewers' feedback and added vignettes and a Docker install path. Version 2.0.0 was tagged in late 2022 with release notes consisting only of a merge commit message, and nothing has shipped since.
◆Where it's heading
The visible arc runs from a scattered set of getSite* functions to a reviewed, documented package, and then stops. The absence of notes on the 2.0.0 tag makes it impossible to say from this feed what that major version changed, and the three-year silence afterwards is the more informative signal. What the package does remains useful — the eLTER data it wraps has no other R interface — but the release history gives no evidence of active development.
◆Prediction
Nothing in these entries supports a confident prediction about future releases; the feed shows a major version with no notes followed by silence. Whether the package is dormant or simply publishing releases elsewhere cannot be determined from what is here.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3y ago

    ReLTER an Interface for the 'eLTER' Community v2.0.0

    A major version tag whose release notes contain only a merge commit message, so what changed between 1.1.0 and 2.0.0 is not documented in this feed. It is the last release in the package's public history and marks the start of a multi-year silence.

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  2. 4y ago

    ReLTER v1.1.0

    The rOpenSci review response release: reviewer suggestions incorporated, documentation revised throughout, vignettes created, and two functions added for OpenDataScience site retrieval and WORMS taxon identifiers. A Docker install path also arrives, which matters for a package with this many geospatial dependencies.

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  3. 4y ago

    ReLTER v1.0.0

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    The release that gave the package a coherent shape — collapsing the getSite* family behind a single category parameter, renaming everything to CRAN conventions, and adding capabilities beyond metadata retrieval. It is the foundation the rOpenSci review in 1.1.0 was conducted against.

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