Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

Pandora 26.08.4

Updates

• Skipped getData(), loadData(), and loadText() tests on transient network failures, such as HTTP 429 rate limits and temporary connectivity issues.

Pandora 26.08.3

Updates

• Improved robustness of API-dependent tests by skipping on transient network failures (for example HTTP 429 rate limits and temporary connectivity issues)

Pandora 26.08.2

Updates

• Improved error handling and messages when the Pandora API is not accessible.

Pandora 26.08.1

Updates

• added a new loadText() helper to the Pandora R package to load plain-text resources (local files or remote URLs), including optional line-collapsing, and refactored remote-download handling to be reusable across data loaders.

Pandora 26.08.0

Bug Fixes

• fixed API access issues by setting a custom User-Agent header for API requests and resource downloads

Pandora 24.02.0

Updates

• catch issue if resources are missing in tests
• automate documentation

Pandora 23.12.0

CRAN release: 2023-12-19

Features

• new parameters for the function getRepositories() to select and rename the columns of the result
• vignette and documentation were added to the package

Pandora 23.11.2

Features

• new function getData() was added, which enables data retrieval
• the function dataOption() returns a list of options for utils::read.csv() or openxlsx::read.xlsx() or readxl::read_excel, respectively, that can be passed to getData()

Pandora 23.11.1

Updates

• export of callAPI() function, update of documentation

Pandora 23.11.0

Features

The main function that facilitate the data retrieval and aggregation from the API is:

• getData() (under development)

The following are its sub-functions contained in this package:

• getNetworks() returns a data.frame containing available networks (groups in CKAN terminology)
  • optional filtering of names for a given string
• getRepositories() returns a data.frame containing available repositories
  • all or those within a specific network
  • optional filtering of meta information for a given string
• getFileTypes() returns a data.frame containing available file types of a repository
  • all or those within a specific network or within a specific repository
  • optional filtering of meta information for a given string
• getResources() returns a data.frame containing available resources within a repository
  • all or filtered by file type or those within a specific network or within a specific repository
  • optional filtering of meta information for a given string