Roadmap

Below outlines upcoming features and bug fixes slated for future releases of RSocrata on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Many of these items are already available on the issue page and are queued in the list below.

The next planned release of RSocrata on CRAN is 1.7.1 and is available in the master branch, while future releases are being planned. The version numbers follow the recommendations of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

Typically, we will maintain quarterly releases on CRAN. Major releases are typically scheduled for January, April, July, and October.

Version 1.7

• Support the uploading of data sets to Socrata through write.socrata()
• Download private (i.e., data sets requiring authentication) through read.socrata()

Planned Releases

Upcoming features and functionality slated for major releases. Items being considered are listed below as well as the issues page.

New features

• Compatibility with GeoJSON returns and leveraging it for mapping (#43)
• Support for Catalog API calls
• Adding fine-grain arguments to the read.socrata function for easier scriptability:

read.socrata(url, domain, fourbyfour, app_token, query)

• Change default file type (when not specified in url argument) from CSV to JSON for performance improvements.

Document and maintenance

• Provide explicit error handling for HTTP/url issues, for instance:
  • Add specific error message for non-SoDA resource (#16)
  • Replace errors similar to 2015-07-10 11:18:47.945 getResponse: Error in httr GET: 401 http://data.cityofchicago.org/resource/j8vp-2qpg.json with a nice message/warning/stop functions
• Separate RSocrata.R into separate files for better code organization