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In nomisr: Access 'Nomis' UK Labour Market Data

nomisr 0.4.7

• Checks for readr version to avoid error when reading CSV content (#31 thanks owenjonesuob and AlexStead)

• Sets encoding to UTF-8 for csv files.

nomisr 0.4.5

• Better error message when API returns empty data in some circumstances.

• Suppressed printing of column types when reading CSV files (#25, thanks jackobailey)

• Removed 2nd vignette due to errors

nomisr 0.4.4

• replaced as.tibble with as_tibble

• Includes second vignette "Work and Health Indicators with nomisr"

nomisr 0.4.3

• Fix readme links

nomisr 0.4.2

• Error handling improvements when using non-existent parameters, and clarifies error messages when no data is available for a given query.

• Removes redundant call to API (#19), thanks @Chrisjb

• New tidy parameter in nomis_get_metadata() to convert names to snake_case.

• Now using the snakecase package to implement name cleaning, providing a broader range of naming styles.

• nomis_get_metadata() now makes existence of time concept explicit in the tibble returned by nomis_get_metadata({id}).

nomisr 0.4.1

• Adding query_id parameter to nomis_get_data()

• Changed documentation to use roxygen markdown

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where the select parameter in nomis_get_data() didn't work if "OBS_VALUE" was not one of the variables. (@JimShady, #12)

nomisr 0.4.0

• Version bump for CRAN

• Citation now refers to JOSS paper

• Some minor changes to internal code for easier maintenance

• Documentation updates to clarify difference between time and date parameters in nomis_get_data()

nomisr 0.3.2 (non-CRAN release)

New features and function changes

• The tidy parameter in nomis_get_data() now defaults to FALSE in order to preserve existing workflows.

nomisr 0.3.1 (non-CRAN release)

New features and function changes

• nomis_get_data() now includes tidy and tidy_style parameters. nomis_get_data() now defaults to converting all variable names to "snake_case". tidy_style also accepts "camelCase" and "period.case" as name style options.

Bug fixes

• Dot queries to nomis_get_data() work with case-insensitive measurements more persistently.

Other updates

• Clarification of need to specified as NULL unused named parameters in nomis_get_data() when using similarly named parameters in ....

nomisr 0.3.0

New features and function changes

• New nomis_codelist() function, which returns the internal coding for different concepts used by the NOMIS API in a tibble, given a dataset ID and a concept name.

• The additional_queries parameter in nomis_get_data() and nomis_get_metadata() has been deprecated and will eventually be removed. Please use the ... parameter for queries including concepts not available through the default parameters.

• The sex parameter in nomis_get_data() will also work with datasets that use "gender" instead of "sex".

Internal changes and bug fixes

• Uses rsdmx to parse metadata, fixing #7.

nomisr 0.2.0

• Improved API key handling (#5)

• Increased test coverage

• Adding rOpenSci reviewers to DESCRIPTION file.

nomisr 0.1.0

• Moved to rOpenSci github repository

• Added API key functionality, which is not required by the API but is useful for large requests.

• In interactive sessions, users are asked if they want to continue when calling more than 15 pages of data at a time.

nomisr 0.0.2

• Introduction of additional parameters to the nomis_get_data() and nomis_codes() functions, improvements to documentation.

nomisr 0.0.1

• 1st release. Rudimentary functions for retrieving information on available datasets and downloading datasets from nomis, with some limited parameters.

nomisr documentation built on June 11, 2022, 5:05 p.m.