NEWS

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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)

NEW FEATURES

• Clearer and more detailed user documentation in README and package website

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

mapmetadata 2.0.2 (2024-12-12)

🥳 Submitted this release to rOpenSci: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/674

NEW FEATURES

• Addition of pkgcheck workflow
• Added more units test to get the code coverage to exceed minimum standard (>75%)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added bug fix location to DESCRIPTION
• Added pkgcheck workflow badge to README
• Inidicated internal functions by using @internal tag
• Simplified the pkgdown file using the internal tag
• Updated pull request template
• Added examples to functions that did not have them