mapmetadata 4.0.1 (2025-03-06)
After peer-review with rOpenSci this package was accepted 🎆 and transferred to the rOpenSci GitHub organisation to be hosted and promoted. Mostly, this release contains documentation changes to reflect this repo transfer. Code functionality is unaltered.
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- test: use function factory instead of {mockery} by @maelle in https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/207
- Small edits on messages by @Lextuga007 in https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/212
- Contribution types updated in https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/209 and https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/208
- Links corrected from ‘aim-rsf’ organisation to ‘ropensci’ in https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/219, https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/217 and https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/pull/220
mapmetadata 4.0.0 (2025-02-17)
Thanks to the brilliant reviewer comments via the rOpenSci software review (https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/674), this release makes some major improvements to the clarity and functionality of the package. See this issue for a summary of the changes: https://github.com/ropensci/mapmetadata/issues/184
Many of these changes relate to making the package easier to use, as there is a heavy dependence on user interaction, improving validation and testing, and complying with R package best practices.
mapmetadata 3.0.0 (2025-01-06)
Thanks in part to helpful rOpenSci editor comments (https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/674) this release makes some improvements to the package, making it more suitable for the rOpenSci software review process, which will be based on this new release going forward.
BREAKING CHANGES
- The package name has changed from browseMetadata to mapmetadata. mapmetadata better reflects the function of this package and complies with formatting best practice for R package naming
- Combined the browse function into the map function to simplify package use for the user
- Changed some function names to match object_verb convention
- Now using csv (not json) as the the metadata input to reflect the new structure from Health Data Research Gateway
- Removed some custom functions, because utils already offered these! (or very similar)
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Logo has been replaced to reflect new package name
- Updated DESCRIPTION file to directly mention Health Data Research Gateway as a data source for this package, normalised the DESCRIPTION file formatting
- Open up the html output file automatically in the user’s browser, insteading of prompting the user to do this manually
- Internal functions no longer listed on the package website, only user functions
- Handle temp directories better in unit tests, by using
withr::local_tempdir() - Improved unit tests by using
testthat::local_mocked_bindings