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datapack 1.4.2

CRAN release: 2025-10-10

BUGS

  • Fix documentation errors due to API changes (#139)

datapack 1.4.1

CRAN release: 2022-06-10

BUGS

  • Remove LazyData from DESCRIPTION (#132)
  • Remove dependency on hash package (#133)
  • Replace instances of if (class(...)) with inherits(...) (#136)

NEW FEATURES

  • Refactor BagIt serialization to match new specification (#109)

datapack 1.4.0

CRAN release: 2020-11-04

BUGS

  • Handle dc:creator in resource map properly (#116)

NEW FEATURES

  • Use SHA-256 as the default hash algorithm (#117)
  • Added ‘checksumAlgorithm’ argument to DataObject initialization method (#117)
  • Update tests for compatibility with testthat 3e (#125)
  • Added ‘targetPath’ argument to DataObject to set ‘prov:atLocation’ for an object (#109)

datapack 1.3.2

CRAN release: 2019-10-15

BUGS

  • Ensure that a ‘dc:creator’ element is always present (#93)
  • Ensure that the resource map dcterms:modified time is always present/updated. (#93)
  • Ensure that a DataPackage is marked as updated after addAccessRule, setPublicAccess, clearAccessPolicy methods called (#92).
  • Remove dependency on redland::getNextResult (#110)

NEW FEATURES * Added function removeRelationships() which can remove all or specified relationships from a DataPackage (#99)

datapack 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2017-08-29

BUGS

  • fixed bug in updateMetadata() that would cause package relationships for the metadata object to be lost.

datapack 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2017-08-03

NEW FEATURES

  • Added support for DataPackage download, edit, upload workflow. (#85)

  • Added new method parseRDF() to parses an RDF/XML resource map from a file. (#85)

  • Added new method removeMember() which removes a member from a Package. (#85)

  • Added new method replaceMember() which replaces the raw data or file associated with a DataObject. (#85)

  • Added new method selectMember(0) which selects package members based on slot values. (#85)

  • Added new method updateRelationships() which updates package relationships by replacing an old identifier with a new one. (#85)

  • Added new method updateMetadata() to update XML content of a DataOBject in a DataPackage. (#85)

  • Added new method getValue() which gets values for selected DataPackage member slots. (#85)

  • Added new method setValue(0) which sets values for selected DataPackage member slots. (#85)

  • Added new method removeAccessRule() to SystemMetadata, DataObject, DataPackage classes. (#78)

  • Added new method hasAccessRule() to DataObject, DataPackage classes. (#78)

  • Added new method clearAccessPolicy() DataObject, DataPackage classes. (#78)

  • Added new method addAccessRule() to DataPackage. class (#85)

  • Added new method setPublicAccess() to DataPackage. class (#85)

  • Access policies can now be modified for DataPackage, DataObject. (#78)

  • Resource map identifiers now include metadata object identifier. (#82)

BUGS

  • fixed bug where resource maps had invalid XML names for blank node identifiers. (#79)

  • fixed bug where resource maps did not include creator or modification time. (#80)

DEPRECATED

  • deprecated function addData(), renamed to addMember().

datapack 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2017-04-07

BUGS

  • Fixed bug where replicationAllowed was not set correctly when parsing if it is false (#61)

  • Fixed bug where numberReplicas was not set correctly when parsing (#63)

  • Fixed bug where the mediaType argument to DataObject initialize() was not being handled correctly and resulted in an invalid system metadata object to be serialized from the DataObject. (#67)

  • Added argument ‘mediaTypeProperty’ to DataObject initialize() which was needed to fully support ‘mediaType’. (#67)

NEW FEATURES

DEPRECATED

  • The method recordDerivation is deprecated in this release and may be marked as Defunct and removed in a future release (#68)

datapack 1.1.0

This # datapack was not released publicly.

datapack 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2016-05-20

BUGS

  • Fixed bug where Roxygen example for serializePackage() was writing to the “/tmp” directory

  • Serializing system metadata to XML with serializeSystemMetadata() now gathers all elements together for a so that the subject does not appear under multiple elements.

datapack 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2016-03-25

NEW FEATURES

  • Initial # datapack (see help topic for ‘datapack’, e.g. “?datapack”)

  • Provides an API for building and serializing packages of data and associated metadata.

  • The package name has been changed from ‘datapackage’ to ‘datapack’

NEW S4 CLASSES

  • Class DataPackage for building and serializing data packages.

  • Class SystemMetadata and DataObject for representing a member of a data package.

  • Class ResourceMap for building and serializing a Resource Description Framework representation of a data package.