NEWS

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zentracloud 0.4.9 (2024-05-06)

• resolve ambiguity with token format, now accepts either with Token prepended or without
  • resolves url problem for non-default servers, all urls should now use https

zentracloud 0.4.6 (2023-06-19)

✨ features and improvements

• results from queryDeviceSettings() are now cached, so successive runs of getReadings() will be much faster when data is cached (#40)

🐛 bug fixes

• bugfix when fetching readings and getting Error: Unable to convert

zentracloud 0.4.4 (2023-06-19)

✨ features and improvements

• include error_flag and error_description in data (#37)
  • all data column names are now converted to lower_snake_case; names are constructed as: measurement.(value|error_flag|error_description)

zentracloud 0.4.3 (2023-06-01)

✨ features and improvements

• remove usage of timezone (retrieved from GPS signal) to enable use of package for sensors without that functionality (#35):
  • Now makes use of UTC time stamp returned from the API
  • Column "datetime" in output is now type character

zentracloud 0.4.2 (2023-04-27)

🐛 bug fixes

• fix throttling of API calls to get_readings endpoint (#38).

zentracloud 0.4.1 (2023-04-19)

✨ features and improvements

• custom print.zentracloudOptions() method for class zentracloudOptions

💬 documentation etc

• re-knit README.Rmd and vignette

zentracloud 0.4.0 (2023-04-19)

✨ features and improvements

• restructure token and domain handling in options (#27)
  • new functions setZentracloudOptions() and getZentracloudOptions() replacing setZentracloudToken()
  • token and domain are no longer required in getReadings(), etc., as they are automatically taken from the global options.
  • custom print.token() method for class token to keep token value hidden.
  • add schema to resolve type matching issues in readCache() (#32)
  • getReadings(): add option to not use cache directory with ignore_cache = TRUE (#31)

💬 documentation etc

• add chunk to vignette about variable attributes (#34)

🍬 miscellaneous

• add custom headers to API query for tracking R package usage (#28)
  • give some more information to user while waiting for response from the API (#29)

zentracloud 0.3.3 (2023-03-10)

✨ features and improvements

• add sample dataset for a query to ZENTRA api (zentra_data) for use in README and vignette (#26)

zentracloud 0.3.2 (2023-03-09)

🍬 miscellaneous

• remove FALSE suffix from pkg startup message (#25)

zentracloud 0.3.1 (2023-03-09)

💬 documentation etc

• add URL and BugReports to DESCRIPTION (for use in pkgdown rendering the GitLab pages website)
  • fix vignette link in README.Rmd

zentracloud 0.2.0 (2023-03-08)

🍬 miscellaneous

• polish package for publication at METER Gitlab (#22)

zentracloud 0.1.3 (2023-03-06)

✨ features and improvements

• simplify code for getData (#21)

zentracloud 0.1.2 (2023-02-15)

✨ features and improvements

• include port number in sensor name to avoid mixing data of unnamed sensors

🍬 miscellaneous

• shorten functions getSensorSpecs() & getData()
• change exit criteria in nextPage()
• editing .gitlab-ci.yml to enable caching of package installation.

🐛 bug fixes

• adapt unit test

zentracloud 0.1.1 (2022-12-01)

🍬 miscellaneous

• make default cache dir dependent on the operating system by using tools::R_user_dir(which = "cache")

zentracloud 0.1.0 (2022-11-29)

💬 documentation etc

• added vignette
• some documentation updates

🍬 miscellaneous

• queryDeviceSettings() now exported

zentracloud 0.0.11 (2022-11-24)

✨ features and improvements

• new function readCache() that reads everything that is saved in the cache
• new function zentracloudOptions() for getting and setting options

🍬 miscellaneous

• update .onAttach() function

zentracloud 0.0.10 (2022-11-23)

✨ features and improvements

• rework token functions: no longer writes a file, instead sets token in options

🍬 miscellaneous

• create unit tests

zentracloud 0.0.9 (2022-11-23)

✨ features and improvements

• removed the option to access the API using username and password

zentracloud 0.0.8 (2022-11-21)

✨ features and improvements

• now writes each page of results to cache separately to avoid memory issues for large queries
• remove Rcpp dependency

zentracloud 0.0.7 (2022-11-16)

🍬 miscellaneous

• now with option to choose cache directory other than default

zentracloud 0.0.6 (2022-11-16)

zentracloud 0.0.5 (2022-11-16)

🍬 miscellaneous

• make clearCache() work with new folder structure

zentracloud 0.0.4 (2022-11-16)

✨ features and improvements

• unit and precision are now attributes of the respective value columns
• sensor is attribute of respective list entry
• adapt getReadings() to new output format/process

🍬 miscellaneous

• finally delete all old, commented-out code chunks

zentracloud 0.0.3 (2022-11-14)

✨ features and improvements

• reads cache only once if all relevant data found cached

zentracloud 0.0.2 (2022-11-10)

✨ features and improvements

• several new functions to interact with API version 3
• transferring old functions to new httr2 package
• now with cache

💬 documentation etc

• updated READ-ME
• no more tokens in code

🍬 miscellaneous

• Added a NEWS.md file to track project progress