NEWS

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xstatic 0.4.7

• changes the name of the primary function from xstatic_slurp to just xstatic
• adds initial attempt at an interactive version, xstatic_interactive - to be completed
• improves get_area_codes process. This now allows you (should allow you!) to pass in something like lad21 not just lad, if that is what your custom lookup requires
• imported functions are all now namespaced to their package, so no more @importFrom decs
• removes batch_size param from xstatic - it only ever needs to be 1000 anyway

xstatic 0.4.4

• Moves lookup to internal data as it should always have been (better understanding of data in packages nowadays thanks to Hadley)

xstatic 0.4.3

• Bit more tidying up and fixing things I just broke
• Making the logic for parameter choice in get_dwp_codes more robust, and reworked it so default params are NULL, you can override with your own selections
• changed period_id to measure_id but I am not sure if that is good or not
• TODO: write up parameter choice combinations eg what to do if you want to switch from Universal Credit claims (caseload) dataset to the Households on UC dataset.

xstatic 0.4.2

• Not sure what happened to 0.4.1
• Rejigged get_dwp_codes quite a bit. Some queries weren't working. Still needs better documentation.

xstatic 0.4.0

• Tidies up the chatty bits of get_dwp_codes

• Restores the original name of the dwp_get_data_util function in dwp_get_data_util.R

• Adds more comments to code

• Fixes error in data-raw/get_lookup_data.R

• Adds extra hack to get_dwp_codes.R to cover change of ds:

    if (ben %in% pension_type && ds == 3) {
    period = 2
    geo_type = 3
  }
  

  fixes issue #1 (!)

xstatic 0.3.0

• changes the name of the primary function from statx_slurp to xstatic_slurp!
• (and changes the name of the relevant file)
• makes significant changes to the parameter names of the main function:
  • location_level becomes filter_level
  • filter_location becomes filter_area
  • data_level becomes return_level
  • use_alias becomes use_aliases
  • and other standardisations between parameter names in the primary function and auxiliary functions
• makes changes to the examples in the man page and in the README
• adds additional explanation and makes corrections in README.md

xstatic 0.2.0

• many, many, many exhausting battles with the R package checks and documentation procedures
• SO MANY mysterious and nonsensical error messages that contradict what's right in front of your eyes
• ended up adding 'packagename::' to the beginning of most of my functions to get rid of warnings about packages not being found or properly available. I don't understand!
• fixed the above by doing lots of @importFrom statements instead
• but hopefully I have made this at last into a valid package... it's been a battle.
• added Travis CI integration as per http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/check.html#travis
• added Code of Conduct statement
• I learned that you don't need to source other R scripts in a package, just put them in the R folder and R will source them all automatically. source commands tend to cause devtools::check() to fail.

xstatic 0.1.0

• initial commit that works but maybe needs extending and maybe refactoring
• wrote up README.md with acknowledgements and a commented example