Changelog • rphylopic

rphylopic (development version)

Added support for using PhyloPic silhouettes as vertices when plotting igraph networks via a new "phylopic" vertex shape, registered automatically when both packages are loaded (#115, #118)
Added new “Network plots” sections to both advanced vignettes, demonstrating the new igraph integration in base R and the use of geom_phylopic() inside ggraph plots

CRAN release: 2025-11-18

Added add_phylopic_tree() to add silhouettes to base R trees (#110)
Fixed a bug in add_phylopic_base() where all names were reported as not returning PhyloPic results when only a single name actually returned no PhyloPic results
resolve_phylopic() now will retry API calls if they fail
Fixed geom_phylopic() and add_phylopic() under ggplot2 4.0.0 and up (#125)
get_phylopic() now has a “source” argument that can be used to retrieve the original source file from the PhyloPic database (#116)

CRAN release: 2024-09-04

Added ability to specify horizontal and vertical justification of silhouettes (#101)
Added ability to specify width or height for silhouettes (#103)
- Note that all “ysize” and “size” arguments/aesthetics are now deprecated in favor of “height” and “width” arguments/aesthetics

CRAN release: 2024-04-23

CRAN release: 2023-12-20

updated citation
added warning when specified size is more than 1000 times smaller than the y-axis range (mostly useful for when making maps with ggplot2::coord_sf()) (#86)
changed the defaults and behavior of the color and fill argument/aesthetics to better maintain backwards compatibility but also prevent unnecessary outlines (#87)
added resolve_phylopic() (#66)
pick_phylopic() now accepts a list of uuids via the uuid argument (#95)
fixed check behavior on CRAN (all tests and examples are now skipped)
caught a rare error when nothing matched filter

CRAN release: 2023-10-28

CRAN release: 2023-10-10

CRAN release: 2023-08-29

added text argument to get_attribution() (#56)
get_attribution() now handles multiple uuids
added browse_phylopic() function (#60)
added preview argument to get_phylopic() (#59)
switched to maps package in base R advanced vignette
geom_phylopic() now properly handles a single unlisted image object passed to the “img” parameter (#75)
added filter (license) argument to get_uuid(), pick_phylopic(), add_phylopic_base(), add_phylopic(), and geom_phylopic() (#72)
added img argument to get_uuid() and get_attribution()
added verbose argument (calls get_attribution()) to geom_phylopic(), add_phylopic(), and add_phylopic_base() (#71)
split out the functionality of the color argument/aesthetic to color (silhouette outline) and fill (silhouette) arguments/aesthetics in add_phylopic(), geom_phylopic(), and add_phylopic_base() (#58)
- when only the color argument/aesthetic is specified, it is copied to the fill argument/aesthetic (maintaining mostly backwards compatibility with old code)
added plot and print methods for silhouette objects (#73)
fixed the behavior of geom_phylopic() when used with ggplot2::coord_sf()
added phylopic_key_glyph() for using silhouettes inside ggplot legends (#57)

CRAN release: 2023-07-08

CRAN release: 2023-06-30

added functions for transforming PhyloPic silhouettes (flipping and rotating)
save_phylopic() bg argument updated to be “transparent” by default
added geom_phylopic() (#25)
vectorized add_phylopic() and add_phylopic_base() (#42)
recolor_phylopic() now removes white backgrounds by default
fixed the handling of alpha values
get_phylopic() can now return any size raster image (#50)
removed the “thumbnail” and “twitter” format options for get_phylopic()
fixed how silhouettes are gathered from PhyloPic (#51)
pick_phylopic() updated to allow visualization of multiple silhouettes at once (#43)
fixed add_phylopic_base() for multi-panel figures
added three vignettes (#49, #55)

CRAN release: 2023-03-20

rphylopic has now been transferred to the Palaeoverse community (new maintainer: William Gearty and author: Lewis Jones)
The package has been updated to work with PhyloPic API ver. >=2.1.1
The package has been reworked to its core functionality of fetching silhouettes and plotting them in base R and ggplot2:
- get_uuid(): this function enables users to get uuid(s) associated with a taxonomic name (new function)
- get_phylopic(): this function enables users to get the PhyloPic silhouette associated with a specific uuid (replaces image_get())
- pick_phylopic(): this function enables users to pick specific PhyloPic silhouettes when multiple are available for a given taxonomic name (new function)
- add_phylopic_base(): this function retains it’s core functionality and is used to add a silhouette to a base R plot (updated from add_phylopic_base())
- add_phylopic(): this function retains it’s core functionality and is used to add a silhouette to a ggplot2 (updated from add_phylopic())
- get_attribution(): this function enables users to get the attribution data associated with a specific uuid (new function)
- save_phylopic(): this function enables users to save PhyloPic silhouettes using various formats (replaces save_png())

New exported function: gather_images()
New internal functions in zzz.R:
- check_for_a_pkg()
- messager()
- message_parallel()

CRAN release: 2020-06-04

fix to add_phylopic_base(): remove use of par() internally, better behavior (#26) (#28)

CRAN release: 2018-11-19