diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2e3572a..8a22f7a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: auk
 Title: eBird Data Extraction with AWK
 Version: 0.0.2
-Date: 2017-07-01
+Date: 2017-07-05
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Matthew", "Strimas-Mackey", email = "mes335@cornell.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
   person("Eliot", "Miller", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 2426579..c8ad048 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# auk 0.0.1.900
+# auk 0.0.2
+
+- patch release converting ebird_taxonomy to ASCII to pass CRAN checks
 
 # auk 0.0.1
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2efaa79..ecb523e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ f <- system.file("extdata/ebd-sample_messy.txt", package = "auk")
 tmp <- tempfile()
 # remove problem records
 auk_clean(f, tmp)
-#> [1] "/var/folders/mg/qh40qmqd7376xn8qxd6hm5lwjyy0h2/T//RtmpCNSRcS/file116bf55764336"
+#> [1] "/var/folders/mg/qh40qmqd7376xn8qxd6hm5lwjyy0h2/T//RtmpwDbC8o/file1181b70c4a691"
 # number of lines in input
 length(readLines(f))
 #> [1] 101
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index d978cdb..73ab52d 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Patch release
+
+- removed all non-ASCII characters from package to pass CRAN checks
+
 # Test environments
 
 - local OS X install, R 3.3.3
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 00551ce..bc59691 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ <h3 class="hasAnchor">
 tmp &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw">tempfile</span>()
 <span class="co"># remove problem records</span>
 <span class="kw"><a href="reference/auk_clean.html">auk_clean</a></span>(f, tmp)
-<span class="co">#&gt; [1] "/var/folders/mg/qh40qmqd7376xn8qxd6hm5lwjyy0h2/T//RtmpkNwJbG/file116cf79d3acf4"</span>
+<span class="co">#&gt; [1] "/var/folders/mg/qh40qmqd7376xn8qxd6hm5lwjyy0h2/T//RtmpkyPP7k/file1182b33bec016"</span>
 <span class="co"># number of lines in input</span>
 <span class="kw">length</span>(<span class="kw">readLines</span>(f))
 <span class="co">#&gt; [1] 101</span>
diff --git a/docs/news/index.html b/docs/news/index.html
index 2c5de35..28b909a 100644
--- a/docs/news/index.html
+++ b/docs/news/index.html
@@ -82,9 +82,12 @@ <h1>Change log <small>All releases</small></h1>
     </div>
 
     <div class="contents">
-    <div id="auk-0-0-1-900" class="section level1">
+    <div id="auk-0-0-2" class="section level1">
 <h1 class="hasAnchor">
-<a href="#auk-0-0-1-900" class="anchor"></a>auk 0.0.1.900</h1>
+<a href="#auk-0-0-2" class="anchor"></a>auk 0.0.2</h1>
+<ul>
+<li>patch release converting ebird_taxonomy to ASCII to pass CRAN checks</li>
+</ul>
 </div>
     <div id="auk-0-0-1" class="section level1">
 <h1 class="hasAnchor">
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ <h1 class="hasAnchor">
     <div id="tocnav">
       <h2>Contents</h2>
       <ul class="nav nav-pills nav-stacked">
-        <li><a href="#auk-0-0-1-900">0.0.1.900</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#auk-0-0-2">0.0.2</a></li>
         <li><a href="#auk-0-0-1">0.0.1</a></li>
       </ul>
     </div>