NEWS.md

In rOpenGov/helsinki: R Tools for Helsinki Open Data

helsinki 1.0.6 (2022-11-30)

UPCOMING CHANGES

• In future versions of this package, functions such as get_rakennustietoruudukko(), get_vaestotietoruudukko(), get_hri_stats() and get_city_map() may be changed from their current implementation due to expected changes in their relevant APIs.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added option to download data from years 1997-1998 and 2009-2014 to get_rakennustietoruudukko() and years 1997-2003 and 2008-2014 to get_vaestotietoruudukko() via HRI data repository.
• Added new internal functions get_hri_dataset_list() and get_hri_dataset_metadata() to facilitate abovementioned new features and always return up-to-date download URLs for zipped datasets.
• Functions relying on HTTP requests should now return informative messages instead of warnings and errors if an internet resource is not available. New internal function gracefully_fail() facilitates this.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• Traces of deprecated get_hsy() function have now been removed from the package

helsinki 1.0.5 (2021-09-27)

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• Dataset aluejakokartat now removed from package. As a replacement it is recommended to use get_city_map() function to download up-to-date maps of different cities.

helsinki 1.0.3 (2021-08-30)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• wfs_api made to output messages instead of warnings and errors in case of connectivity and other problems
• get_rakennustietoruudukko() and get_vaestotietoruudukko() now have 2020 data, one exceptionally named dataset from 2016 now downloads correctly
• Vignette examples now more robust against unexpected errors

helsinki 1.0.1 (2021-05-09)

NEW FEATURES

• New function get_feature_list() added to easily list all available features in a WFS API
• New function select_feature() added to interactively browse and select features from WFS API
• New function get_feature() added for a simplified experience when interacting with wfs_api()
• New function get_city_map() added to interactively download city administrative boundaries from an API instead of having to provide them with the package
• New functions wfs_api() and to_sf() added from another rOpenGov-package, fmi2, to interact with WFS APIs

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved output for get_servicemap() and get_linkedevents()
• Rmarkdown added as an explicit dependency, as required by knitr-package maintainers
• Using period.separated naming for function parameters and underscore_separated naming for function names and objects inside functions, as distinction between the two is sometimes useful for increased code legibility

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• get_hsy() now deprecated due to URL changes. Use get_vaestotietoruudukko() and get_rakennustietoruudukko instead.
• Older datasets must now be downloaded directly from Helsinki Region Infoshare website (for example https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/rakennustietoruudukko in the case of Building Information Grid) whereas package functionalities revolve around interacting with and downloading data from WFS API.
• Package no longer has maptools and RCurl as dependencies and no longer imports rjson, uses httr, httpcache and jsonlite instead

DOCUMENTATION FIXES

• Updated vignette
• Improved documentation for get_servicemap() and get_linkedevents()

helsinki 0.9.29 (2017-02-18)

• Package released in CRAN

helsinki 0.9.16 (2014-05-12)

• Package updated a lot

helsinki 0.9.01 (2013-12-17)

• Package separated from sorvi

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