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ruODK 1.5.1

Major changes

  • Add support for the OData API endpoints for Entities (#152)
  • Bump minimum versions of dependencies

Minor changes

  • entity_changes now returns a tibble instead of nested list.
  • submission_export gains a new parameter deleted_fields to export all known fields of a form, including fields that were deleted in the latest form version. (#129, #161)

ruODK 1.5.0

Major changes

  • Support Entities and Entity Lists (Datasets) (#152)
  • Add pre-commit hooks and precommit.ci integration
  • Add devcontainer

ruODK 1.4.2

This release migrates the ruODK test suite to a new test server ruodk.getodk.cloud which was generously sponsored by GetODK.

This release makes ruODK aware of the new ODK Central semantic version format: Update your ODK Central version in .Renviron or in the credential helper of your choice to the new format ODKC_VERSION="2023.5.1" (with your current version). See the updated vignette “setup”.

Major changes

  • Handle the new ODK Central semantic versioning (#150)
  • Migrate to new test server (#149)

ruODK 1.4.0

This release fixes a few compatibility issues and bumps dependencies to R (4.1) and imported/suggested packages. Upgrade carefully and revert to 1.3.12 if things go awry.

  • Update to new tidyselect syntax: Using vectors of names to select makes tidyselect complain (WARN, soon ERROR). We wrap all programmatic selections of variable names in dplyr::all_of() where we expect a single variable to be selected, and dplyr::any_of() where we select using fuzzy matching (e.g. dplyr::starts_with()). (#146)
  • Make ruODK::form_list() robust against reviewState missing from outdated Central versions. (#145, HT @dpagendam and #143, HT @collinschwantes) There will be more such tripwires - please do submit a bug report if you find a discrepancy between Central API and ruODK’s parsing.

ruODK 1.3.12

ruODK 1.3.11

  • Update project_list, submission_list and `` columns to reflect Central 1.5 API output.
  • Update submission_list columns to reflect Central 1.5 API output.

ruODK 1.3.10

ruODK 1.3.9

ruODK 1.3.8

ruODK 1.3.7

Minor fixes

  • Improve issue template for bug reports
  • Upgrade test server to ODK Central 1.4.2
  • Refresh packaged data (new Central brings new fields), update tests
  • Improve GitHub Action for Docker build

ruODK 1.3.6

Minor fixes

  • odata_submission_get supports parameter expand to expand all repeat repetitions.

ruODK 1.3.5

Minor fixes

  • split_geopoint is now robust against all NULL columns. split_geotrace and split_geoshape are possibly affected. ## Data
  • Packaged data has been re-created to represent the latest server outputs. ## Maintenance
  • New Suggest depencency terra (through mapview)

ruODK 1.3.0

This release supports ODK Central 1.3.0 and represents an over-due version bump to reflect the supported ODK Central version. The test server is now updated to ODK Central 1.3.0, and all tests pass.

There are still some newer and as yet unsupported API endpoints in ODK Central, which serve administrative purposes of the front-end. Contributions are welcome, get started on these issues and the contributing guide. As ruODK focuses on data retrieval, these administrative endpoints are non-critical to ruODK’s purpose.

Major fixes

Minor fixes

Documentation

Data

  • Packaged data has been re-created to represent the latest server outputs. ## Maintenance
  • All tests pass, GitHub Actions is as per usual brittle at the installation step.

ruODK 1.2.0.0000

We are shaping up to a release targetting the ODK Central 1.2 release. ODK Central is undergoing some bug fixes and patches, while ruODK’s test server will be migrated to another instance. The latter is required to enable tests which create/update/delete entities in ODK Central.

Major fixes

Minor fixes

Documentation

Data

Maintenance

  • All DEPENDS and SUGGESTS bumped to latest available under R release.
  • The minimum supported version is rversions::r_oldrel(): 4.0.5 (2021-03-31).
  • ruODK is developed under rversions::r_release(): 4.1.1 (2021-08-10).

ruODK 1.2.0

Major fixes

  • ODK Central returns Geoshapes as Multipolygon. split_geoshape adjusted for odkce_version >= 1.2. (#131)
  • readr::parse_datetime stopped supporting timezone “Z”. (#130) ## Minor fixes ## Documentation ## Data
  • All data refreshed from test server running ODK Central 1.2. ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.10.2

Major fixes

Minor fixes

Documentation

  • Update installation instructions with source install from rOpenSci R-Universe and troubleshooting (#128, thanks @yanokwa) ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.10.2

Major fixes

  • Fix ODK Central v1.2 time out on NULL query parameters skip and top. ruODK now only supplies non-NULL query parameters and has an additional seat-belt to drop any query parameter that is an empty string. (#126, thanks @yanokwa, @mtyszler, @thaliehln) ## Minor fixes ## Documentation ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.10.1

Major fixes

  • submission_export now terminates immediately if an incorrect passphrase is given. ODK Central can exceed memory limits if submission_export is run repeatedly with an incorrect passphrase. (#30, thanks @Thaliehln) ## Minor fixes
  • Add encryption_key_list ## Documentation ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.10.0

Major fixes

Minor fixes

  • Make ru_msg_* conditional to get_ru_verbose(). ## Documentation
  • Reference re-ordered into topics.
  • Re-worded the example preamble on setup.
  • Added metadata to pkgdown config.
  • Enable Markdown docs. Embedded lifecycle badges should work. R CMD Check does not complain which is nice. ## Data ## Maintenance
  • Prepare to cover remaining API endpoints.

ruODK 0.9.11

Major fixes

Minor fixes

  • Add published_at to form_list and form_detail, update examples, tests, test fixtures to show that draft forms can be detected by a NA published_at in ODK Central versions having form drafts, and by NA hash and version in ODK Central versions before form drafts. ## Documentation ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.9.10

This is a “everything so far works” release. There are a few ODK Central API endpoints waiting to be implemented still.

Major fixes

Minor fixes

ruODK 0.9.9

Major fixes

  • submission_export now supports ODK Central v1.1 features to omit media attachments (media = FALSE), and to omit repeat data (include_repeats=FALSE). Calling submission_export on an older version of ODK Central (as determined through get_default_odkc_version()) with these new parameters will emit a (verbose only) “noop” message and not act further on them. ## Minor fixes
  • Bugfix to submission_export on encrypted forms with multiple encryption keys. (Thanks @Thaliehln #117 #30)

ruODK 0.9.8

Minor fixes

  • Add support for passphrase to the ru_setup family (#116)

ruODK 0.9.7

Major fixes

  • odata_submission_get() bugfix: handle_ru_attachments() now finds and downloads media attachments from both main submissions and nested form groups. (#114)
  • odata_submission_get() bugfix: missing media attachments (due to upload error from ODK Collect to ODK Central) are tolerated without interrupting the batch download. A diagnostic warning message will be emitted for each failed download. (#114) ## Minor fixes ## Documentation ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.9.6

Major fixes

  • Support encryption (#30 #110, @Thaliehln).
    • Note that ruODK only supports one passphrase. When switching between multiple encrypted forms, it would make sense to store the different passphrases in separate environment variables, and refer to these environment variables explicitly in function calls.
    • The updated ruODK::submission_export should now export data from both encrypted projects and non-encrypted projects. The HTTP method is changed from GET to POST and encryption key ID / passphrase are provided via POST body using a JSON format. Encrypted forms can be extracted and inspected like non-encrypted forms:

{r, eval=FALSE} se <- submission_export() t <- tempdir() f <- unzip(se, exdir = t) fs::dir_ls(t) fid <- get_test_fid() sub <- fs::path(t, glue::glue("Locations.csv")) %>% readr::read_csv() sub %>% knitr::kable(.)

ruODK 0.9.5

Major fixes

  • form_schema_ext retrieves choice lists when choice filters are present (#105, @mtyszler). ## Minor fixes ## Documentation ## Data ## Maintenance

ruODK 0.9.4

Major fixes

  • form_schema_ext performance enhancement (#106, thanks @mtyszler). ## Maintenance
  • Tests use vcr to cache server response (#104). Delete the local cache tests/fixtures to re-generate the vcr cache, or enjoy much faster running tests using cached server response.

ruODK 0.9.3

This is a point release to create a new RStudio Server image. ## Minor fixes * Form schema now also works on draft forms (#103, HT @dmenne). ## Maintenance * Automated code reviews by <codefactor.io>. * GitHub Actions welcomes Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and MacOS X back to the passing environments.

ruODK 0.9.2

Major fixes

  • form_schema_ext() Shows the extended schema of one form, including (multi-language) labels and choice lists. (#77, thanks @mtyszler for the PR)
  • Development continues in the default branch main. ## Minor fixes
  • form_list now handles draft forms with NA hash and version (#86, thanks @dmenne for the PR).
  • Migrate package tests to a new ODK Central instance and update contributing guidelines with new settings. (#14)
  • Drop Import of tidyselect in favour of using dplyr::all_of().
  • All calls to httr::RETRY(times=) are configurable via setting retries. (#94) ## Documentation
  • Mapview popups in vignette “Spatial” are back after an upstream bugfix is in progress (https://github.com/r-spatial/mapview/issues/312).

ruODK 0.9.1

Major fixes

ODK Central versions 0.7 to 0.9 export geotraces and geoshapes via OData with a trailing empty coordinate. ruODK removes any trailing empty coordinates from both GeoJSON and WKT formats. (#88, HT @TimonWeitkamp for the bug report)

Documentation

A new vignette “Spatial” demonstrates how to parse spatial data into native formats, such as sf, and gives pointers on what to do next with them.

ruODK 0.9.0

This is the release on passing rOpenSci peer review.

Thanks to the rOpenSci editors and reviewers @maelle, @karissawhiting and @jmt2080ad, as well as to @OdiljonQurbon, @dickoa, @arestrom and @dmenne.

A DOI was minted at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3953159.

ruODK 0.6.6

This version addresses ROpenSci reviewer comments from @karissawhiting and @jmt2080ad, contributions from @dickoa, as well as ideas and suggestions from @OdiljonQurbon, @arestrom and @dmenne.

This version supports ODK Central 0.9 while providing backwards compatibility for ODK Central <= 0.7.

Major fixes

  • New environment variables ODKC_(TEST_)VERSION allow ruODK to toggle between deprecated/removed and new/added API endpoints, e.g. form_schema. (#61)
  • Split and rename WKT POINT (ODK geopoint) fields with odata_submission_get(wkt=T). (#31 #7 HT @OdiljonQurbon)
  • submission_get now accepts a vector of (all or selected) submission instance IDs (iid), similar to odata_submission_get(). (#38)
  • All httr::GET() are now replaced with httr::RETRY("GET", ...) (#48)
  • Refactor odata_submission_parse() into odata_submission_rectangle(), handle_ru_{geopoints, geotraces, geoshapes, datetimes, attachments}. (#54 #69)
  • Maintain backwards compatibility to ODK Central v7 for changed spatial output for geotrace and geoshape (#70)

Minor fixes

Dependencies

  • Moved rlist to Imports, as it is now used in odata_submission_get(). (#6)
  • Dropped rlist dependency in favour of tidyr/dplyr. (#85)
  • Use development versions of rlang, purrr and lifecycle to get their latest bug fixes.

Data

  • Use canned data in all vignettes, so they can build without authentication. (#33)
  • Update canned data (and make-data.R) to work with CI-built pkgdown site. (#52)
  • Remove nested list form_schema_raw which is only generated from legacy ODK Central (< 0.8) (#61)
  • Added ODK Central < v0.7 form schema for tests.

Documentation

  • Updated workshop companion package urODK.
  • Rename vignettes to odata-api and restful-api. (#34)
  • Warn against using plain text credentials in vignette setup. (#34)
  • More documentation improvements at #34.
  • Add screencast to the README. HT to asciicast! (#45)
  • Improve logo - more turtles, but questionable photoshopping.
  • Add examples where missing. (#32)
  • Build pkgdown site via GH actions. (#52)
  • Minor typographic changes: end every function title with a full stop.
  • Broken links and other inconsistencies fixed after contributions from the ODK Forum, @dickoa, @arestrom, @dmenne. Thanks for the first community feedback! (#76 #74 #79 #80 #81)

Docker

  • Added Dockerfile to build an RStudio Server image based on rocker/geospatial with ruODK and dependencies installed.
  • Build a separate Dockerfile for urODK to launch a hosted RStudio instance in Binderhub. (#83)

ruODK 0.6.6

  • The big one has landed: odata_submission_get() now defaults to parse submissions from nested lists into a tibble, parse dates and datetimes, download and link attachments. (#6)

ruODK 0.6.5

Documentation

  • Use lifecycle badges on functions. Add lifecycle to dependencies, version bump usethis. (#29)

Code

  • Refactor list wrangling code to use map_*(.default=NA), removing some internal helpers (thanks to @jennybc)
  • Use dummy imports to silence R CMD check NOTES as per googledrive’s example (thanks to @jennybc)
  • Drop unused internal helper functions

ruODK 0.6.4

Data

  • Use three new test forms to make package smaller and tests faster. Use the main test form for example data, including data from two nested tables. Use the main test form in all vignettes and README. Use a small form without attachments for tests repeatedly exporting to ZIP. Use another small form with only one submission and two attachments for tests downloading attachments. The test credentials are unchanged (#23)

ruODK 0.6.3

Dependencies

  • tidyr 1.0.0 is out! Move tidyr dependency from GitHub master to CRAN version (#27)
  • Add usethis to Suggests, it is used in the setup step

Documentation

DIY for workshops

  • Add inaugural RMarkdown template “odata” (#26)
  • Add binder launch button (one click start for #26)

ruODK 0.6.2

Code

  • Simplifiy ru_setup() to use OData Service URL.
  • Change all functions to default to get_default{pid,fid,url,un,pw}(), partly moving project ID (pid) and form ID (fid) to kwargs. This changes all examples, tests, vignettes, READMEs.
  • Reduce installed package size by sharing attachment files. Add new parameter separate=FALSE to attachment_get to prevent separating attachment files into subfolders named after their submission uuid (#22)

Documentation

  • Add a high level overview diagram to README and inst/joss/paper.md to illustrate ruODK’s intended purpose in the ODK ecosystem (#19)
  • Added link to explain environment variables and R startup to vignette “setup”. @maelle
  • Add comparison of similar software to README (#25)

ruODK 0.6.1

  • ROpenSci submission review milestone, discussion.
  • Updates to documentation (#13 #15 #17)
  • Group function docs (#18)
  • Update contribution guidelines and add account request issue template: How to run ruODK tests and build the vignettes (#15 #20)
  • Add dedicated ru_setup() and ru_settings(). Pat down functions for missing credentials and yell loudly but clearly about httr errors. (#16)
  • Drop @importFrom to reduce duplication. All external functions are prefixed with their package name already.
  • Add convenience helpers attachment_link() and parse_datetime().
  • Use janitor::clean_names() on column names over home-grown helpers.
  • Since submission_detail is now metadata only, add submission_get to download submission data.

ruODK 0.6.0

  • Version bump and lifecycle bump to indicate that ruODK is ready to be used against ODK Central 0.6.

ruODK 0.6.0.9000

  • Version bump to match ODK Central’s version.
  • Updated to match ODK Central’s API at 0.6 (RESTful and OData) (c.f.).
  • Add commented out crosslinks to source code and related tests for convenience.
  • Encryption endpoints (new in 0.6) are not yet supported.
  • Audit logs supported, as they are a read-only export.

ruODK 0.3.1

Preparation for ROpenSci pre-submission

  • Check name with available::available("ruODK"):
  • Name valid: ✔
  • Available on CRAN: ✔
  • Available on Bioconductor: ✔
  • Available on GitHub: ✔
  • Rude misinterpretations: none
  • In summary: Package name seems to be OK. Well, ODK. OK, ruODK.
  • Added metadata via codemetar::write_codemeta("ruODK").
  • Cross-platform: Runs on GNU/Linux (TravisCI) and on Windows (AppVeyor)
  • Function naming follows object_verb.
  • ruODK uses verb singulars (e.g. submission_list to list multiple submissions), while ODK Central’s API URLs use verb plurals.
  • ruODK uses snake_case.
  • Exception to object_verb: Functions operating on the OData endpoints are named odata_object_verb. Helper functions not related to API endpoints are named verb_object.
  • Code style done by styler::style_package(), see section “Release” in README.md.
  • ruODK has a README.Rmd and has a website generated by pkgdown.
  • ruODK has documentation generated by roxygen2.
  • Test coverage 100%, but could use more edge cases.
  • Tests use a live ODK Central instance, which is kept up to date by ODK. This means that ruODK’s test always run against the latest master of ODK Central. ruODK does not (but maybe should?) use webmockr and vcr.
  • Spellchecks with spelling::spell_check_package(): added technical terms and function names to inst/WORDLIST.
  • Added citation and section in README.
  • Added inst/joss/paper.md for submission to JOSS.
  • Added examples to function docs.

TODO

  • Implement remaining missing functions (ticket).

ruODK 0.3.0

  • Use tidyverse issue template
  • Follow goodpractice
  • Created vignette “Setup”
  • Add AppVeyor
  • Refactor storage path of attachments to not contain “uuid:” (for Windows compat)
  • Started on REST API: project_list, project_detail, form_list, form_detail. Naming scheme is object_verb.
  • For now, functions related to the OData endpoint are named verb_object, maybe we should rename them to odata_object_verb.
  • Refactor URLs - build from project and form IDs

ruODK 0.2.4

  • Cleaned up logo, thanks to @issa-tseng for suggestions

ruODK 0.2.3

  • Added a new form, Flora Quadrat 0.3 to inst/extdata.

ruODK 0.2.2

  • Added more test coverage.

ruODK 0.2.1

  • Added various usethis goodies, test stubs, badges.

ruODK 0.2.0

  • Recursively unnests raw data into wide format. Manual post-processing is still required to rename (anonymous in ODK and auto-named through R) coordinates, and to handle attachments.

ruODK 0.1.0

  • Parses metadata, submissions, and handles attachments (retaining already downloaded attachments).
  • Includes example forms as both .xml and .odbbuild in inst/extdata.
  • Includes example data as retrieved from ODK Central.
  • Includes vignette demonstrating tidying of retrieved data.
  • Handles repeating groups.

Roadmap:

  • Handle paginated submissions.
  • Retain already downloaded submissions.