NEWS

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fedstatAPIr 1.0.0 (2023-03-10)

• removed all dependencies except httr, jsonlite, xml2, readsdmx, magrittr, utils, methods, data.table for much easier installation
• backend of all functions rewritten in data.table
• new features: it's now possible to load database full dictionary from sdmx by providing new argument return_type to fedstat_parse_sdmx_to_table, obervation value in data is now parsed from character to numeric type automatically
• fixed some old problems with russian encoding data fields and filters by converting to UTF-8
• removed all functions related to automatic data update checks (fedstat_check_data_update, fedstat_prepare_reference_data_for_check_data_update), were experemental, too complex and not a main part of a package
• removed function fedstat_get_data_ids_special_cases_handle, no longer needed due to change of upstream API
• new function fedstat_indicator_info - allows to update database of all indicators by user
• user interface to the package (except deleted functions) has not changed, some non-significant default arguments have been changed or added