NEWS.md

In hereR: 'sf'-Based Interface to the 'HERE' REST APIs

version 1.0.0

Please note that there are breaking changes introduced in this major version release for the weather(), flow(), and incidents() functions. Be sure to review the updated documentation to understand how these changes may affect your usage.

• Upgrade HERE Traffic API to v7 for flow() and incident() requests (closes #158)
• Upgrade HERE Destination Weather API to v3 for weather().
• Update description to create a new API key to the HERE Platform (closes #157).
• In addition to sf, data.frames, the input for points and areas of interest now also allows for sfc geometry columns.
• Change the example data set of the package for the area of interest aoi from the country border of Switzerland to the districts of Zurich. This change was necessary because the flow() and incident() requests have a maximum allowed width and height of 1 degree for the bounding box of the input AOIs.
• Replace GitHub actions with current versions from r-lib/actions.
• Bugfix: Fix decoding of polylines with NA value in intermodal_route().
• Bugfix: NAs introduced by coercion, do not convert snowFall column to numeric in weather observation request.
• Bugfix: Remove defunct.R and deprecated.R to avoid NOTE (closes #162).

version 0.9.1

• Resubmit to CRAN due to since the package was archived on 2022-12-27 as email to the maintainer was temporarily not deliverable.
• Updated r-lib/actions in github action R-CMD-check.yaml and pkgdown.yaml.

version 0.9.0

• Allow transport modes "scooter", "taxi", "bus", "privateBus" in route() and route_matrix().
• Request tolls for routes with transport modes "car", "truck", "taxi" and "bus" in route(). The new boolean parameter vignettes defines if vignettes should be in inlcuded in the total toll cost of routes (closes #151).
• Add set_currency() to allow changing the currency used in toll requests to a currency code compliant to ISO 4217. The default currency is the current system locale setting. If the monetary formatting category "LC_MONETARY" of the C locale is not set, "USD" is set as default.
• Set aggregate = FALSE as default in isoline() (closes #153).
• Bugfix: Reduced RPS from 5 to 4 in calls to the Weather API in weather(), due to Status 429; Too Many Requests;.
• Bugfix: Do not convert columns "visibility" and "snowCover" to numeric in weather(..., product = "observation"), as they contain non numeric character values (NAs introduced by coercion).

version 0.8.2

• Setting the arrival time is now supported by the Routing API, therefore route(..., arrival = TRUE) works.
• Since sapply is not type safe, replace its use with vapply(..., FUN.VALUE = type).
• Add endpoint URL (without parameters) of failing requests to the warning message and print error message of the response.
• RPS limit for weather and traffic endpoints.
• Changed workflow from git flow to trunc-based development. Removed develop branch. New features are merged directly into master and releases are tagged after CRAN has accepted the package submission, which triggers the documentation build.
• Bugfix: Fix time / traffic independent requests in isoline(..., traffic=FALSE) (closes #147).
• Bugfix: Explicitly cast linestring in function .connection_summary to avoid error in CPL_geos_union (@panhypersebastos).

version 0.8.1

• Adjust URLs to GitHub account due to renaming munterfinger to @munterfi.
• Bugfix: Add set_freemium topic to index in pkgdown.

version 0.8.0

• Rename the rate-limit-related variable HERE_RPS to HERE_FREEMIUM, and the function hereR::set_rate_limit() to hereR::set_freemium(). Use the HERE_FREEMIUM environment variable to determine a plan-specific size of sub-matrices in the hereR::route_matrix() function (@szaboildi, #138).
• Deprecate hereR::set_rate_limit() (closes #137).
• Add option to use qualified queries in geocode() (closes #136).

version 0.7.1

• Add parameter to allow filtering transport modes in connection() (closes #130).
• Bugfix: Swapped the origin and destination IDs in route_matrix(). Removed query optimization because switching the IDs results in reversed route information (closes #129).
• Update outdated URLs in package documentation.

version 0.7.0

• Enable optimize parameter to chose from "balanced", "quality" and "performance" in isoline() (closes #119).
• Remove deprecated parameters in route(), route_matrix() and isoline().
• Add specific user-agent to the requests: hereR/<version> R/<version> (<platform>).
• Add option to deactivate rate limits set_rate_limit(FALSE).
• Bugfix: Add rate limits in RPS (requests per seconds) to async requests to the APIs; move dependency for requests from curl to crul package (closes #122).
• Bugfix: isoline() now handles multipart polygons (MULTIPOLYGON) if received by the API (closes #121).
• Add area and feature avoidance in route() (closes #117).

version 0.6.1

• Use styler package and use tyler::tidyverse_style()to format the package.
• All lintr issues are solved, except from line length issues (limit of 80 characters).
• Avoid drop of the sfc class of the geometry column when there is only one geometry/row in a data.table (closes #111).
• Return queryScore in geocode() results as score column (closes #109).
• Silence sf messages of sf::st_union call in connection(..., summary = TRUE).
• Added section id to route(), intermodal_route() and connection().

version 0.6.0

• Update route_matrix() from Routing API v7.2 (calculatematrix) to Matrix Routing API v8 (see #87).
• Update isoline() from Routing API v7.2 (calculateisoline) to Isoline Routing API v8 (see #87).
• Update route() from Routing API v7.2 (calculateroute) to Routing API v8, which brings the elevation to the route geometries (closes #87). Note: Currently arrival time is not yet supported.
• Return ISO state and country code in geocode() with the updated API v7.2 as it did with the previous API v6 (closes #98).
• Deprecate parameters mode and type in route(), route_matrix() and isoline(), use transport_mode and routing_mode instead.
• Fix parsing of timezones in connection() and intermodal_route() (closes #94).
• Fix not conditional use of suggested packages in vignettes (closes #101).
• Fix issue with delimiter for POST requests by changing it from a space " " to a space pipe combination " | " (closes #102).
• Added contribution guidelines, code of conduct and issue templates.

version 0.5.2

• Send timezone offset in requests to the HERE APIs to avoid conversion to local timezone (closes #85).
• Added option to return alternative results in geocode(). The alternative locations are ranked according to the order from the Geocoder API (closes #83 and #81).

version 0.5.1

• Fix of the request generation for the Geocoder API: Removal of the & in front of the apiKey argument (closes #73 and #74).

version 0.5.0

• Upgrade Geocoder API version used in geocode() from v6.2 to v7 (closes #52). Note: The argument autocomplete is defunct and the argument addresses is deprecated, use address instead.
• Change default geometry in the return value of geocode() to position coordinates (display position) and return access coordinates (navigation position) as additional column in well-known text format (closes #53).
• Consistent columns in the return value of geocode() and reverse_geocode() independent of the input address level (closes #58).
• Upgrade Geocoder API version used in reverse_geocode() from v6.2 to v7. Note: The argument landmarks is defunct.
• Replace Geocoder API Autocomplete v6.2 with Geocoder API Autosuggest v7. Note: The function autocomplete() is defunct, please use autosuggest().
• Upgrade Public Transit API version used in connection() and station() from v3 to v8 (closes #62). Note: Now the geometries (LINESTRING) of the pedestrian sections are also included in the public transport routes returned by connection().
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• Defunct set_proxy() and unset_proxy(). Use a global proxy configuration for R in ~/.Renviron instead.

version 0.4.1

• Change example and API mock data for intermodal_route() from Berlin to Switzerland, as the service is now also available there.
• Force mapview to use 'classical' leaflet/htmlwidgets rendering (which embeds data directly in the html) and not the file format 'flatgeobuf' in vignette building (see #54).
• Temporarily deactivate all maps in the vignettes to solve the issues on CRAN (closes #54). With the next release of mapview >= v2.9.1 on CRAN the maps will be reactivated.

version 0.4.0

• Changed CI from Travis to GitHub actions.
• Added automated pkgdown page build after pull requests and commits on master.
• Extended test coverage on defunct function calls.
• Added sf argument to geocode() function. If TRUE, the default, an {sf} object is returned, if FALSE a data.frame with lng and lat columns. (@dpprdan, #44)
• Intermodal Routing API: Routes The new feature intermodal_route() adds support for requesting intermodal routes between given pairs of locations.

version 0.3.3

• Added set_verbose() function to define (for the current R session) if the hereR package should message information about the number of requests sent and data received (default = FALSE).
• Reactivate maps with multiple layers since the mapview issue #271 is fixed.
• lwgeom no longer exports st_make_valid(), but sf does. Therefore lwgeom is moved from the package dependencies to the suggestions (see #38).

version 0.3.2

• Defunct the deprecated traffic() function, which has been replaced by the functions flow() and incident().
• Recreated package test data, api mocks and examples with sf 0.9-0 (see #36).
• Increased the dependency on the sf package to version 0.9-0 due to a different CRS handling (for more information about the changes in sf, see here). Note: Older versions of the sf package are no longer supported.
• Temporarily deactivated maps with multiple layers until the mapview issue #271 is fixed.

version 0.3.1

• There are no more missing M:N route combinations in the the edge list returned by route_matrix() (see #30).
• All lengths of origin and destination are now accepted as input in route_matrix() (see #31).
• Added two new functions flow() and incident() to access traffic flow and incidents from the Traffic API. Deprecated the traffic() function.
• Reduced the dependent version of R from 3.5.0 to 3.3.0 as the package is still functional but runs on more systems.

version 0.3.0

• HERE has updated the authentication process and changed from APP_ID and APP_CODE to a single API_KEY. Therefore set_auth() and unset_auth() are defunct and replaced by set_key() and unset_key() (see #23).NOTE: .Deprecated() was skipped because the API endpoints have also changed. After updating to a version greater than 0.2.1 the authentication must be adjusted.
• Added a minimum jam factor filter to traffic(..., product = "flow"). Now it is possible to only retrieve flow information of severe congestion with a jam factor greater than min_jam_factor, which speeds up requests.
• Public Transit API: Transit route The new feature connection() implements requesting the most efficient and relevant transit connections between given pairs of locations.
• Public Transit API: Find stations nearby The new feature station() retrieves nearby public transit stations with corresponding line information.
• Package cosmetics: Renamed the start parameter to origin and unified the utilization of the datetime and arrival parameters in route(), route_matrix(), isoline() and connection().
• Adjusted the handling of datetime objects in the requests: All c("POSIXct", "POSIXt") inputs for the requests (mostly departure) are converted to UTC using .encode_datetime() and the responses are parsed and returned in the input timezone (or if missing: Sys.timezone()) using .parse_datetime() (see #28).
• Added @import sf to the package documentation to ensure sf objects are handled correctly.
• Added departure and arrival datetime column to the return value of route(), route_matrix() and isoline().
• Removed data.table object type from function return values. New: Pure data.frame or sf, data.frame because this integrates better with other packages (e.g. the overline2() function from the stplanr package).

version 0.2.1

• Enhanced traffic(): Clarified that from_dt and to_dt have no effect on the traffic flow (product = "flow"). Traffic flow is always real-time. Detailed documentation of the variables in the return value.
• Improved coverage of testthat.
• Added an id column to the output of geocode() and removed the id ordered row.names in order to be consistent with other functions of the package. Using the id column the addresses to geocode can be joined to the coordinates after geocoding (see #9).
• Added an id column also to autocomplete(), reverse_geocode(), route(), isoline(), traffic() and weather(). Using the id column the result can be joined to the input.
• Fixed the handling of failing requests in .get_content(). The id column is still in correct order, even if there are failing requests in a function call (see #17).
• Added rownames() <- NULL to all functions before returning the result.
• Renamed the city column in the returned object of weather() to station, as it stands for the name of the nearest meteorological station.
• Test for empty geometries in the input POIs and AOIs and throw an error if some are found (see #16).

version 0.2.0

• Enhanced geocode(): In the case of empty responses the row names match the index of the geocoded addresses. Improved input checks. Option to use autocomplete by setting autocomplete = TRUE.
• Geocoder API: Autocomplete The new feature autocomplete() allows autocompleting addresses.
• Geocoder API: Reverse geocode The new feature reverse_geocode() implements reverse geocoding POIs in order to retrieve suggestions for addresses or landmarks.

version 0.1.0

First release of the hereR package, an sf-based interface to the HERE REST APIs. The packages binds to the following HERE APIs:

• Geocoder API: Get coordinates (lng, lat) from addresses.
• Routing API: Routing directions, isolines and travel distance or time matrices, optionally incorporating the current traffic situation.
• Traffic API: Real-time traffic flow and incident information.
• Destination Weather API: Weather forecasts, reports on current weather conditions, astronomical information and weather alerts at a specific location.

Locations and routes are returned as sf objects and tables as data.table objects.

hereR documentation built on Sept. 18, 2023, 5:21 p.m.