NEWS

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sasctl 0.9.0 (2026-09-18)

To comply with CRAN policies some breaking changes were required:

Breaking:

• Functions that write files no longer default to the current working directory. The path argument now defaults to NULL and must be supplied explicitly when file output is requested. Affected functions are: write_in_out_json, write_ModelProperties_json, write_fileMetadata_json, calculateFitStat, calculateROCStat, calculateLiftStat, diagnosticsJson, and create_scoreSample. This may cause errors if a path is not explicitly assigned. These functions now also return explicitly instead of invisibly.
• Codegen add_target_name default changed to FALSE (comment: it was confusing and unecessary most of the time)

Changes:

• fix: json functions no longer return values invisibly.
• fix: Functions that writes to path requires it defined explictly now
• fix: codegen has been updated with some fixes and quality of life. (The user should still verify the generated code and files)
• fix: The R scoring code sample and generated codes no loger uses .GlobalEnv, it relies on R context inheritance to load models. (comment: it was required to add sasctl to CRAN, it can still be used if the user wants.)
• fix: Updated docs and readme to use file.path instead of paste0(...) when referencing system files.

sasctl 0.8.3

chore: prepare for CRAN release

sasctl 0.8.2

fix: default connection client

sasctl 0.8.1

fix: r-universe build

sasctl 0.8.0

• feat: codegen (breaking) now has the output_as_df argument, by default the generated scorecode it returns a data.frame instead of a list. Required for the MM gateway background.
• feat: codegen now has the add_target_name. By default a column with the name of the target will be returned with the predicted values.
• feat: added r-sasctl to https://sassoftware.r-universe.dev repository for easier installation.
• fix: force_pmml_translation default changed to FALSE. As of Viya 2025.6, PMML 4.4 is natively supported by Model Manager.
• fix: register_model wrongly identifying which version of Viya it is interacting with, which lead to use the wrong upload format.
• fix: codegen now uses file.path instead of paste in the generated code when referencing file paths.
• fix: Now the xgb-tidymodel Vignette is pre-rendered to avoid fails in the universe r-universe repository.

sasctl 0.7.5

• Added scr_batch argument to format_data_json, allowing to have all data in a single json payload for Viya 2024.7 SCR batch scoring feature.
• Fixed some issues related to the PMML payload when uploading models to SAS Model Manager in some SAS Viya versions
• Fixed openBrowser using a function instead of the argument.
• Improved codegen for Tidy Models workflows guessing the predictors from the pre processing pipeline instead of the model workflow recipe.

sasctl 0.7.4

• Added verify_ssl argument to session to be used in all api calls.
• Added openBrowser argument to session to open the browser automatically when auth_code = TRUE.
• Fixed a bug that would not open the browser automatically when authenticating through authentication code.

sasctl 0.7.3

• Fixed publish_model exact argument
• Added SAS log to error message when publish_model fails.

sasctl 0.7.2

• Fixed when registering models with variables missing label/measurement metadata
• delete_* functions now return invisible(), to avoid polluting the terminal.
• Improved documentation

sasctl 0.7.1

• Fixed misleading error messages in register_model()
• Small tweaks to the documentation

sasctl 0.7.0

• Fixed correct release retrieval when using session to connect to Viya 2020.x
• Added codegen function in experimental state. Works for simple lm, glm models and tidymodels workflow with regression or classification model mode`
• [Breaking] All diagnostics json generator functions requires the targetName and targetPredicted arguments to be named, now it avoids variable positioning errors.
• Diagnostics now returns invisible to avoid polluting the terminal. You can still assign to a variable to see the results.
• Added xgboost tidymodels vignette

sasctl 0.6.4

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Fixed the "or()" statement being invalid in Viya 2023.3 when calling API with filters
• Fixed ZIP model upload would fail with "No model file(s)" statement on SAS Viya 2023.3 or higher
• Creating a session it brings additional server release information

sasctl 0.6.3

Small bug fixes a quality of life improvements.

• Added refresh_session function
• Improved session(... auth_code = TRUE) to work on Jupyter Notebook and remove require to add client_secret parameter
• added base64enc and dplyr dependencies, for refresh_token and to make sure furrr doesn't fail when called through masScore(...)

sasctl 0.6.2

• Initial public release