NEWS.md

In odns: Access Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data

odns 1.0.2

POTENTIALLY BREAKING CHANGES

• resource_metadata() now returns the actual metadata of a resource rather than a data.frame detailing the names and types of all fields available for the chosen resource. A new function provides the old behavior, resource_data_items().

Minor Changes

• Users running an R version < 4.0.0 will no longer be impacted by the stringsAsFactors == TRUE default. This change aligns behavior of the package across compatible versions of R.

odns 1.0.1

New

• Added function nrow_resource() returns the number of rows a resource contains.

POTENTIALLY BREAKING CHANGES

• all_packages() now makes better use of the underlying CKAN API and returns the package id in addition to the name. However, the function now returns a data.frame rather than a character vector. A default limit to the return of 1000 rows is also implemented, but can be set to a custom value by the user.

Minor Changes

• all_resources() now makes better use of the underlying CKAN API and is significantly faster. The function also now provides a warning and returns an empty data.frame if the arguments specified result in no results being returned, replacing the previous behavior which produced an error.

• get_resource() now allows accepts character vectors as arguments, allowing for the download of resources from multiple packages. It also now allows the user to specify resource names as well as ids. Multiple performance enhancements too.

• get_data() now supports pagination. The page_size argument allows users to specify the maximum number of records to be returned per query. The default behavior is to attempt to return all rows with a single query. SQL queries are now used less often, improving performance.

Returns from get_data() are now by default ordered as per the database primary key.

odns 1.0.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

odns documentation built on Nov. 10, 2022, 5:56 p.m.