NEWS

PxWebApiData 1.0.0 (2024-11-01)

This package has been a stable workhorse, now updated to version 1.0.0.
This package now has a documentation site at https://statisticsnorway.github.io/ssb-pxwebapidata, providing easy access to vignettes and guides.
Now the comment attribute also includes elements tableid and contents whenever these are available.
Minor updates with no changes in functionality
- Changed package license to MIT, in accordance with the policy at Statistics Norway.
- Updated outdated region codes in the vignette under Aggregations using filter agg.
- Some technical changes in documentation to comply with standards.

Minor update regarding warnings:
- Previously, some warnings were suppressed to comply with the CRAN policy (refer to version 0.6.0 below). Now, these warnings are instead converted to messages.

responseFormat, new parameter to ApiData with "json-stat2" as default.
- Previously, "json-stat2" was not used.
Now a comment attribute with elements label, source and updated is added to output as a named three-element character vector.
- Thus, the comment attribute has been changed from the previous version
- Run the comment function to obtain this information.
Eurostat data example included in the vignette.
More changes to meet CRAN policy as in version 0.6.0 (also when apiPackage = "pxweb")

makeNAstatus, new parameter to ApiData which represents new functionality.
- When missing entries in value, the function tries to add an additional variable, named NAstatus, with status codes.

Changes to meet CRAN policy:
- Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning nor error).

Possible to return a single data set as a data frame: First, second or both combined.
- Handled by the new parameter returnDataSet. Possible non-NULL values are 1, 2 and 12.
- New wrapper functions. Function names ending with 1, 2 or 12.