NEWS

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BFS 0.5.12 (2024-12-09)

• improve bfs_get_base_maps() with new return_sf argument, which allows to return all file path available (see README).
• improve README related to bfs_get_base_maps()

BFS 0.5.11 (2024-11-27)

• BREAKING CHANGE: column orderNr returned by bfs_get_catalog() renamed as number_bfs for more clarity. Unnecessary new variables also removed in profit of the return_raw argument.
• add return_raw in bfs_get_catalog() and bfs_get_tables(), which returns all metadata in an raw / unstructured tibble.
• update to last available BFS geodata asset imported using bfs_get_base_maps()
  • https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/catalogues-databases.assetdetail.30606132.html
• Use new swissMunicipalities R package to ease geodata analysis

BFS 0.5.10 (2024-09-27)

• fix bug in metadata extraction in bfs_get_catalog(), bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_catalog_tables()

BFS 0.5.9 (2024-09-26)

• fix bfs_get_catalog(), bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_catalog_tables()

BFS 0.5.8 (2024-02-23)

• All functions return NULL if no internet connection.
• Tests skipped if no internet connection.

BFS 0.5.6 (2024-01-08)

• add "delay" argument in bfs_get_data() and bfs_get_data_comments()
  • using Sys.sleep() of 10 seconds to avoid reaching API limits
  • the "delay" arg allows to loop on large datasets, for example see #7
• BREAKING CHANGE: remove "bfs_url" argument in bfs_get_data() and bfs_get_data_comments()
  • "bfs_url" argument unstable and slow. See README for recommended workflow using bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_asset_metadata()
• add deprecation warning for bfs_get_catalog()
• add more tests
• add test coverage

BFS 0.5.5 (2023-09-20)

• fix encoding bug in bfs_get_base_maps() #12
• add fs R package dependency
• add unit tests
• remove unnecessary messages when calling bfs_get_catalog_*()
• use tools instead of rappdirs
• improve docs related to query dimensions

BFS 0.5.4 (2023-09-13)

• using only magrittr pipe to allow older R versions, fix #11

BFS 0.5.3 (2023-08-18)

• add bfs_get_base_maps().
• add data from the Swiss official commune register.
• update README.

BFS 0.5.2 (2023-08-11)

• BREAKING CHANGE: bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_catalog_tables() return now in the dataframe "number_asset" instead of "guid" as variables.
• add bfs_download_asset()
• add bfs_get_asset_metadata()
• "number_bfs" as first argument in bfs_get_metadata()
• improve docs

BFS 0.5.1 (2023-06-08)

• BREAKING CHANGE: fix BFS version 0.5 broke bfs_get_data(). Fix now #10 by removing "all" default argument to query.

BFS 0.5 (2023-06-08)

• fix bug #10
• add bfs_get_catalog_geodata()
• add bfs_download_geodata()
• improve docs

BFS 0.4.8 (2023-05-31)

• BREAKING CHANGE: reorder arguments in functions for consistency
• bfs_get_catalog_tables() now gets full catalog, fixing #5
• bfs_get_catalog_tables() has new functions to filter datasets directly
• use "httr2" instead of "jsonlite" for better console messages
• improve README, docs and sticker.

BFS 0.4.7 (2023-05-19)

• add new function bfs_get_metadata()
• fix bug duplicated column names with as_tibble(. .name_repair = "minimal")

BFS 0.4.5 (2023-02-27)

• Fix bug in bfs_get_data_comments() #8.
• improve README by adding info about dependencies.

BFS 0.4.4 (2022-12-14)

• Fix bug using query argument in bfs_get_data()
• remove depreciated function bfs_get_metadata() and bfs_get_dataset()

BFS 0.4.3 (2022-09-07)

• Fixed bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_catalog_tables() bug #6.
• tidyRSS GitHub dependency version is 2.0.5.
• Add tests for bfs_get_catalog_* functions.

BFS 0.4.2

• Fixed bfs_get_catalog_data() and bfs_get_catalog_tables() bug #6.
• tidyRSS dependency version is 2.0.4.
• Improved README.

BFS 0.4.1 (2021-10-09)

• BREAKING CHANGE: clean_names of bfs_get_data() is now FALSE by default.
• bfs_get_data() uses BFS API v1.
• bfs_get_metadata() deprecated. Please use only bfs_get_catalog_data().
• add bfs_get_catalog_tables().
• add bfs_get_catalog().
• pxweb and jsonlite dependency added. dplyr dependency removed.

BFS 0.3.1 (2021-05-10)

• fix issue #3 with pull request #1

BFS 0.3.0 (2021-03-23)

• fix critical bug in bfs_get_dataset()
• add new function bfs_get_catalog()

BFS 0.2.6

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added bfs_get_catalog() function, that scraps the RSS feed