NEWS.md

In ropensci/oai: General Purpose 'Oai-PMH' Services Client

oai 0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• the requests are now made using httr::RETRY() rather than httr::GET() to facilitate retrying with delay control etc. Consult further the documentation of 'httr' package (#64)
• @mbojan takes over package maintenance from @sckott

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• update packages test to catch the 'cannotDisseminateFormat' OAI-PMH-level error correctly
• added package hex logo

oai 0.3.2

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• vignette fix, use markdown in suggests
• update readme, use ropensci coc

oai 0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• id() gains as parameter so user can ask for different outputs (parsed list/data.frame, or raw xml/text) (#54)
• most OAI functions changed their default url to http://api.gbif.org/v1/oai-pmh/registry, while count_identifiers() changed it's default url to http://export.arxiv.org/oai2. the previous default url for Datacite was too unreliable (was often unresponsive)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• add grant information for one author (#48) (#49)
• code of conduct urls fixed
• now using markdown supported documentation (#56)
• replace tibble::as_data_frame with tibble::as_tibble throughout package

BUG FIXES

• fix to update_providers(); html page that we scrape had changed (#57)

oai 0.2.2

NEW FEATURES

• Added new parsers in get_records() specific to different OAI prefixes. Currently has parsers for oai_dc and oai_datacite. For prefixes we don't have parsers for we return raw XML so you can parse it yourself. (#45)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Replace xml2::xml_find_one() with xml2::xml_find_first() (#39)
• Update URLs in DESCRIPTION file (#43)
• Using tibble now for compact data.frame instead of internal methods for the same (#44)
• as parameter in get_records() now has options parsed or raw, which replaces df list, or raw

oai 0.2.0

NEW FEATURES

• A set of new functions for dealing with larger data results: dump_raw_to_txt(), dump_to_rds(), and dump_raw_to_db(). They can be used with oai functions list_identifiers(), list_sets(), and list_records() (#9) (#15) (#21) thanks @mbojan

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Sped up some tests (#19)
• Better description of OAI protocol in the DESCRIPTION file (#28)
• Commented about where some internal functions come from (#31)
• Import plyr for rbind.fill() (#32)
• Including now some examples using OAI-PMH with GBIF and BHL (#33)
• Better error handling! (#10) (#12) (#22) (#27) thanks @mbojan

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug where list_identifiers() threw error when no result was found (#13)
• Dealing better with bad inputs to as parameter - stop with informative message now instead of failing without anything returned (#34)

oai 0.1.0

• Released to CRAN.

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