Changelog
Source:NEWS.md
rdataretriever 3.1.0
CRAN release: 2022-05-18
New Features
- Add rdatasets and Socrata API
- Remove Travis and use GitHub actions
- Change default branch from master to main
- Add Joss Paper and DOI badge
- Update and simplify installation instructions
- Remove windows specific install instructions
- Update the vignettes
Minor Improvements
- Rename the function to data_retriever_version
- Add get_version function
- Automatically reload the scripts
- Reactivate MariaDB tests
- Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing
- Simplify the interface to retriever module add function to install retriever
- Add tests for get-script-citation
- Add get citation function
rdataretriever 3.0.1
New Coauthors
We welcome Apoorva Pandey and Hao Ye as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great contributions!
New Features
Add provenance support
Add support for new online/offline dataset feature in retriever
Automatically update dataset status
Check that the retriever Python package is sufficiently up-to-date
Update and simplify installation instructions
Add get citation function
Update and simplify internals to benefit from updates to reticulate
Add vignettes ## Minor Improvements
Improvements to code style and documentation
Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing for stability
Add get_version function, returns the version of the Data Retriever
rdataretriever 3.0.0
CRAN release: 2020-09-17
New Coauthors
We welcome Apoorva Pandey and Hao Ye as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great contributions!
New Features
- Add provenance support
- Add support for new online/offline dataset feature in retriever
- Automatically update dataset status
- Check that the retriever Python package is sufficiently up-to-date
- Update and simplify installation instructions
- Add get citation function
- Update and simplify internals to benefit from updates to reticulate
rdataretriever 2.0.0
CRAN release: 2019-05-25
New Features
- Add a customize installation to directory using data dir
- Use Dockers for testing
- Add spatial support using Postgis
- Using reticulate
- Add get_citation function
- Update Reset retriever to include reseting specific scripts or data
rdataretriever 1.1.0
NEW COAUTHORS
- We welcome Pranita Sharma and David J. Harris as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Pranita and David!
NEW FEATURES
- Use reticulate to integrate with retriever Python
- Spatial dataset processing Beta version using PostGis
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Use Docker compose for testing
- Switch to Python 3 for testing
- Enhance path search on Windows
- Add a debug script for reporting the environment variables
- Update documentation to match latest version
- Add license file
rdataretriever 1.0.0
CRAN release: 2017-03-11
NEW PACKAGE NAME
- The
EcoData Retriever
has been renamed toData Retriever
to reflect its utility outside of ecological data and consequently we have renamed the R package fromecoretriever
tordataretriever
NEW COAUTHORS
- We welcome Henry Senyondo and Shawn Taylor as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Henry and Shawn!
NEW FEATURES
- Add
reset
which allows a user to delete all theData Retriever
downloaded files - Add
json
andxml
as output options
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Accommodate new retriever naming conventions in fetch
- Don’t change the class or return the update log
- Specify in documentation which functions are for internal use.
- Change dataset names in source and README.md
BUG FIXES
- Search for Anaconda installs of the
Data Retriever
- Obtain correct home path in RStudio on Windows