NEWS.md

In oxcovid19: An R API to the Oxford COVID-19 Database

oxcovid19 0.1.2

This is the third CRAN release of oxcovid19. In this release:

Enhancements

• added function to get remote table metadata (party to fix CRAN NOTE on non-use of imported dbplyr package)

• added convenience wrapper functions to retrieve data from specific tables based on specified query parameters

• added utility function to help in citing appropriate data sources

• improved documentation including adding markdown support

• updated lifecycle to maturing

Bug fixes

• addressed CRAN NOTE regarding 2 marked UTF-8 strings

• addressed CRAN NOTE regarding non-use of imported dbplyr package

oxcovid19 0.1.1

This is the second CRAN release of oxcovid19. In this release:

Enhancements

• improved documentation

• updated test package GitHub Actions specifications

• updated check package GitHub Actions specifications

Bug fixes

• Edited 2 marked UTF8 strings

• addressed WARNING on CRAN checks

• addressed issue with connect function regarding gssencmode specification

oxcovid19 0.1.0

This is the first CRAN release of oxcovid19. In this release:

• Created a function to open a connection to the PostgreSQL server of the OxCOVID19 Database.

• Created a function to output lists of available tables in the PostgreSQL server and lists of fields in each table in the PostgreSQL server.

• Created a function to output specified tables for use within R environment.

• Pulled source and structure specifications of tables in PostgreSQL server and saved as package datasets.

• Added README to document package description, installation and use.

• Added tests using testhat

• Added GitHub Actions for performing R CMD check on package

• Added GitHub Actions for performing code coverage

• Added vignettes to demonstrate similar outputs as OxCOVID-19 Project

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

oxcovid19 documentation built on Jan. 13, 2021, 8:50 p.m.