NEWS.md

In datapack: A Flexible Container to Transport and Manipulate Data and Associated Resources

datapack 1.4.2

BUGS

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

datapack 1.4.1

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

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

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

BUGS

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

datapack 1.3.0

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

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

• Added new function to reset access policies clearAccessPolicy() (#56)

• Added new function describeWorkflow() to add run provenance relationships to a DataPackage (#64)

• Added 'Show' methods for DataObject and DataPackage classes. (#71, #73)

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

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datapack 1.0.1

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

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.

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