oxcovid19 v0.1.3

This is a patch release of oxcovid19 (GitHub and Zenodo release only). This
is a development release leading up to oxcovid19 minor
CRAN release v0.2.0 in December 2020.

In this release:

Enhancements

• Improved documentation with community guidelines that include code of conduct
  and contributing guidelines

• Improved website (favicon, etc)

• Removed Travis ci/cd

Bug fixes

• addressed issue with get_data_weather not working as expected. Issue was
  with how missing values were reported in the actual datasets (usage of
  character value NaN rather than NA or special value NaN)

oxcovid19 v0.1.2

This is the third CRAN release of oxcovid19. In this release:

Enhancements

• added function to get remote table metadata (party to fix CRAN NOTE on non-use
  of imported dbplyr package)

• added convenience wrapper functions to retrieve data from specific tables
  based on specified query parameters

• added utility function to help in citing appropriate data sources

• improved documentation including adding markdown support

• updated lifecycle to maturing

Bug fixes

• addressed CRAN NOTE regarding 2 marked UTF-8 strings

• addressed CRAN NOTE regarding non-use of imported dbplyr package

oxcovid19 v0.1.1

This is the second release of oxcovid19.

This is a release to address warnings and notes identified in CRAN results. In this release:

• I addressed two warnings produced by CRAN checks on macOS:

  Warning in engine$weave(file, quiet = quiet, encoding = enc) :
  Pandoc (>= 1.12.3) and/or pandoc-citeproc not available. Falling back to R Markdown v1.

  Warning in engine$weave(file, quiet = quiet, encoding = enc) :
  Pandoc (>= 1.12.3) and/or pandoc-citeproc not available. Falling back to R Markdown v1.

These are the same warnings for two different vignettes. On further investigation, this seems to be related to my generation of figures using Rmarkdown. To address this, I instead generated and saved these figures locally and then inserted the figures into the respective vignettes rather than generating the figures on build.

• I addressed two notes produced by CRAN checks on linux fedora clang and gcc:

  Note: found 2 marked UTF-8 strings

  Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘dbplyr’
  All declared Imports should be used.

I found the two marked UTF-8 strings and have edited them accordingly

I do not directly use dbplyr in my functions but I use the tbl function in dplyr that when used with a database connection requires dbplyr

• improved documentation

• addressed issue with connect function regarding gssencmode specification

• updated test package GitHub Actions specifications

• updated check package GitHub Actions specifications

oxcovid19 v0.1.0

This is the first CRAN release of oxcovid19. In this release, we:

• Created a function to open a connection to the PostgreSQL server of the OxCOVID19 Database.

• Created a function to output lists of available tables in the PostgreSQL server and lists of fields in each table in the PostgreSQL server.

• Created a function to output specified tables for use within R environment.

• Pulled source and structure specifications of tables in PostgreSQL server and saved as package datasets.

• Added README to document package description, installation and use.

• Added tests using testhat

• Added GitHub Actions for performing R CMD check on package

• Added GitHub Actions for performing code coverage

• Added vignettes to demonstrate similar outputs as OxCOVID-19 Project

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.