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In ropensci/rdataretriever: R Interface to the Data Retriever

rdataretriever 3.1.0

New Features

• Add rdatasets and Socrata API
• Remove Travis and use GitHub actions
• Change default branch from master to main
• Add Joss Paper and DOI badge
• Update and simplify installation instructions
• Remove windows specific install instructions
• Update the vignettes

Minor Improvements

• Rename the function to data_retriever_version
• Add get_version function
• Automatically reload the scripts
• Reactivate MariaDB tests
• Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing
• Simplify the interface to retriever module add function to install retriever
• Add tests for get-script-citation
• Add get citation function

rdataretriever 3.0.1

New Coauthors

We welcome Apoorva Pandey and Hao Ye as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great contributions!

New Features

• Add provenance support
• Add support for new online/offline dataset feature in retriever
• Automatically update dataset status
• Check that the retriever Python package is sufficiently up-to-date
• Update and simplify installation instructions
• Add get citation function
• Update and simplify internals to benefit from updates to reticulate
• Add vignettes

Minor Improvements

• Improvements to code style and documentation
• Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing for stability
• Add get_version function, returns the version of the Data Retriever

rdataretriever 3.0.0

New Coauthors

We welcome Apoorva Pandey and Hao Ye as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great contributions!

New Features

• Add provenance support
• Add support for new online/offline dataset feature in retriever
• Automatically update dataset status
• Check that the retriever Python package is sufficiently up-to-date
• Update and simplify installation instructions
• Add get citation function
• Update and simplify internals to benefit from updates to reticulate

Minor Improvements

• Improvements to code style and documentation
• Use Cloud CRAN mirror in Docker-based testing for stability
• Add get_version function, returns the version of the Data Retriever

rdataretriever 2.0.0

New Coauthors

We welcome Harshit Bansal as a coauthor on the package. Thanks for the great help!

New Features

• Add a customize installation to directory using data dir
• Use Dockers for testing
• Add spatial support using Postgis
• Using reticulate
• Add get_citation function
• Update Reset retriever to include reseting specific scripts or data

Minor Improvements

• Improve the test platform and use reticulate in the tests
• Test using custom service names specific to project
• Add potential path for retriever in Windows

Bug Fixes

• No scripts when using reticulate based install on retriever

rdataretriever 1.1.0

NEW COAUTHORS

• We welcome Pranita Sharma and David J. Harris as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Pranita and David!

NEW FEATURES

• Use reticulate to integrate with retriever Python
• Spatial dataset processing Beta version using PostGis

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Use Docker compose for testing
• Switch to Python 3 for testing
• Enhance path search on Windows
• Add a debug script for reporting the environment variables
• Update documentation to match latest version
• Add license file

rdataretriever 1.0.0

NEW PACKAGE NAME

• The EcoData Retriever has been renamed to Data Retriever to reflect its utility outside of ecological data and consequently we have renamed the R package from ecoretriever to rdataretriever

NEW COAUTHORS

• We welcome Henry Senyondo and Shawn Taylor as coauthors on the package. Thanks for the great help Henry and Shawn!

NEW FEATURES

• Add reset which allows a user to delete all the Data Retriever downloaded files
• Add json and xml as output options

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Accommodate new retriever naming conventions in fetch
• Don't change the class or return the update log
• Specify in documentation which functions are for internal use.
• Change dataset names in source and README.md

BUG FIXES

• Search for Anaconda installs of the Data Retriever
• Obtain correct home path in RStudio on Windows

ecoretriever 0.3.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Improve documentation for using the connection file

BUG FIXES

• Fix issues with running on some Windows machines by using shell() instead of system() on Windows
• Fix new --subdir functionality (released in 0.2.2)

ecoretriever 0.2

NEW FEATURES We added a new function get_updates which can be used to update the retriever scripts. This is a big improvement for users because it avoids automatically updating the scripts every time the package is imported. The log of the scripts update can be printed in a cleaner format as well. Added support for maintaining subdirectory structure when using the function download.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• default data_dir argument is now set to working directory rather than NULL for the function install()

BUG FIXES

• On windows machine if the data directory was not specified for a dataset install an error would occur. Now the dataset directory is always specified in external calls to retriever install ...

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