get_dataset() now fails with url timeout error

[AMBarbosa]

Hi, get_dataset() was working alright until the last time I used it (March this year), but now it's consistently failing (for the same taxa, and even for the Examples in the help file) with Error in url::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Timeout was reached: [wnapi.neotomadb.org] Connection timed out after 10008 milliseconds, even if I greatly increase getOption('timeout') in my R installation. Cheers

[SimonGoring]

Hi @AMBarbosa thank you for reaching out. The package neotoma has now been deprecated. Unfortunately our wnapi.neotomadb.org server reached end of life and was no longer operable.

The package has been replaced by neotoma2. As much as possible we have kept many of the same patterns, but there are new data structures.

The wnapi server was only passing along data submitted before June 2020. The new package accesses all data up until the present. Please contact us directly either by email (goring@wisc.edu) or on our slack workspace (there is an it_r channel) and we can help assist you in migrating to neotoma2.

My sincere apologies.

[AMBarbosa]

Thanks for the reply! I'll try 'neotoma2' the next time I need it (I was going to use it during a course, which has ended in the meantime). But I suggest adding a message about this when 'neotoma' is installed and/or loaded (like what happens e.g. when running library(maptools)). Right now, people are installing and loading the package with no idea that it has been replaced.