Changes in version 0.10.1 (2024-07-10)                 

NEW FEATURES

  - New functions: sotkanet_cite() for citing datasets (issue #16, PR
    #17 by @Allaht2) and sotkanet_interactive() for interactively
    downloading datasets (issue #20, PR #21 by @Allaht2).
  - New dependencies / imports: move from using httr package to httr2
    package (issue #19, PR #24 by @Allaht2). Other new imports are
    lubridate, RefManageR, digest, frictionless and magrittr.
  - Added new versions for functions GetDataSotkanet, SotkanetRegions,
    SotkanetIndicators and SotkanetIndicatorMetadata. The new version
    are called get_sotkanet, sotkanet_regions, sotkanet_indicators and
    sotkanet_indicator_metadata. The old versions of different functions
    are kept without deprecation messages or warnings, but users are
    gently encouraged to use the new functions (issue #18, PR #25 by
    @Allaht2)
  - Functions get_sotkanet, sotkanet_regions, sotkanet_indicators and
    sotkanet_indicator_metadata have support for caching (issue #14, PR
    #21 by @Allaht2). They also now support English and Swedish in
    addition to Finnish (issue #9, PR #21 by @Allaht2). *get_sotkanet
    can return a frictionless datapackage with metadata added in (issue
    #15, PR #21 by @Allaht2).

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  - Remove dependencies / imports: httr and jsonlite
  - Removed function try_GET

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  - Updated vignette and README to use new versions of the functions.
    Old vignette is retained.
  - Added Finnish version of the vignette as an article (issue #10, PR
    #24 by @Allaht2).
  - Moved from using PascalCase naming convention to using snake_case
    for new functions (issue #18).
  - Function get_sotkanet() has default years value of NULL that gives
    the data from all the available years for the dataset (issue #12, PR
    #24 by @Allaht2).
  - The default value for genders is now c("male", "female", "total")
    (issue #22, PR #24 by @Allaht2).
  - New region.category supported by the API, YTA ("yhteistyöalue") now
    mentioned in relevant function documentation (PR #26 by @Allaht2)

                 Changes in version 0.9.79 (2022-02-01)                 

NEW FEATURES

  - Functions pointing to external resources (sotkanet.json_query() and
    sotkanet.csv_query()) should now fail gracefully. New internal
    functions are in R/http_funs.R
  - New dependencies / imports: httr package for handling URLs and error
    messages and curl package for internet connection testing. jsonlite
    for handling data from json files
  - Http functions now include information on user agent. The default is
    "rOpenGov/sotkanet" to help API providers track package usage but it
    can be changed in relevant functions: GetDataSotkanet(),
    SotkanetIndicators() and SotkanetRegions().

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  - Removed internal functions: GetDataSotkanetSingleIndicator and
    SotkanetData.
  - Removed dependency / import: rjson
  - Deleted unused function: base_url

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  - Functionalities from GetDataSotkanetSingleIndicator and SotkanetData
    are now embedded in one function, GetDataSotkanet().
  - Some files in ./R/ folder have been renamed for better legibility:
    internal.R to SotkanetCollect.R and sotkanet.R to SotkanetRegions.R
  - New alias for downloading indicator metadata:
    SotkanetIndicatorMetadata() (usesSotkanetIndicator(id))
  - To help save bandwidth, when provided with a predefined list of
    indicators, SotkanetIndicators() now downloads metadata individually
    instead of fetching and subsetting the whole indicator dataset.
  - Vignette will no longer fetch external resources on CRAN.
  - Package license clarified: BSD 2-clause instead of FreeBSD

                 Changes in version 0.9.76 (2021-05-03)                 

  - Adding rmarkdown to Suggests
  - Minor fixes before CRAN submission (broken URLs etc.)
  - NEWS.md template updated to pkgdown-specifications

                       Changes in version 0.9.72                        

  - Getting rid of RCurl dependencies
  - Updated roxygen documentation

                 Changes in version 0.9.48 (2017-05-16)                 

  - CRAN release version

                       Changes in version 0.9.13                        

  - base url change into https
  - reorganized R file structure

                       Changes in version 0.9.12                        

  - tutorial updates

                       Changes in version 0.9.11                        

  - Updated README
  - Cosmetic changes to vignette
  - Renamed tutorial

                       Changes in version 0.9.09                        

  - Improved documentation
  - Polished package structure
  - Stabilized erroneous URL handling

                       Changes in version 0.9.01                        

  - Package separated from sorvi