Changelog • helsinki

helsinki 1.0.6 (2022-11-30)

CRAN release: 2022-12-02

In future versions of this package, functions such as get_rakennustietoruudukko(), get_vaestotietoruudukko(), get_hri_stats() and get_city_map() may be changed from their current implementation due to expected changes in their relevant APIs.

Added option to download data from years 1997-1998 and 2009-2014 to get_rakennustietoruudukko() and years 1997-2003 and 2008-2014 to get_vaestotietoruudukko() via HRI data repository.
Added new internal functions get_hri_dataset_list() and get_hri_dataset_metadata() to facilitate abovementioned new features and always return up-to-date download URLs for zipped datasets.
Functions relying on HTTP requests should now return informative messages instead of warnings and errors if an internet resource is not available. New internal function gracefully_fail() facilitates this.

Traces of deprecated get_hsy() function have now been removed from the package

CRAN release: 2021-09-29

Dataset aluejakokartat now removed from package. As a replacement it is recommended to use get_city_map() function to download up-to-date maps of different cities.

CRAN release: 2021-09-03

wfs_api made to output messages instead of warnings and errors in case of connectivity and other problems
get_rakennustietoruudukko() and get_vaestotietoruudukko() now have 2020 data, one exceptionally named dataset from 2016 now downloads correctly
Vignette examples now more robust against unexpected errors

CRAN release: 2021-05-09

New function get_feature_list() added to easily list all available features in a WFS API
New function select_feature() added to interactively browse and select features from WFS API
New function get_feature() added for a simplified experience when interacting with wfs_api()
New function get_city_map() added to interactively download city administrative boundaries from an API instead of having to provide them with the package
New functions wfs_api() and to_sf() added from another rOpenGov-package, fmi2, to interact with WFS APIs

Improved output for get_servicemap() and get_linkedevents()
Rmarkdown added as an explicit dependency, as required by knitr-package maintainers
Using period.separated naming for function parameters and underscore_separated naming for function names and objects inside functions, as distinction between the two is sometimes useful for increased code legibility

get_hsy() now deprecated due to URL changes. Use get_vaestotietoruudukko() and get_rakennustietoruudukko instead.
Older datasets must now be downloaded directly from Helsinki Region Infoshare website (for example https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/rakennustietoruudukko in the case of Building Information Grid) whereas package functionalities revolve around interacting with and downloading data from WFS API.
Package no longer has maptools and RCurl as dependencies and no longer imports rjson, uses httr, httpcache and jsonlite instead

CRAN release: 2017-02-18