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 will be version 1.6.1, while version 2.0 is being planned. The version numbers follow the recommendations of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

Version 1.5.1

Bug fixes

• Deprecated httr::guess_media(), implement mime::guess_type() (#4)

Version 1.6

Features

• Show list of datasets available on any Socrata portal ls.socrata()
• Allow users to pass along SODA API tokens in separate, optional argument in read.socrata()
• Add compatibility for data.json v1.1 (#22)

Bug fixes

• Failure to posixify when no data (#24)

Planned Releases

Version 1.6.1

Bug fixes

• Repair bug: Warning: replacing previous import by ‘curl::handle_reset’ when loading ‘RSocrata’ (#42)

Documentation & Maintenance

• Add contributor instructions (#23 and #28)
• Clean-up DESCRIPTION (#40)
• Add continuous integration for Windows (#39)
• Migrate Travis-CI to "proper" R YAML (#46)
• Implement code coverage monitoring (#41)

Version 2.0

This release will incorporate compatibility with recent features with Socrata's SoDA API. Tentatively, this includes:

• Compatibility with GeoJSON returns and leveraging it for mapping
• Support for Catalog API calls