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TO DO - Feature requests

  • Enable releases="July 2016" to work for the latest releases in abs_cat_tables and abs_cat_stats.

Completed functions

  • Add argument: format = c("table", "raw") argument to abs_stats function to provide option to return results as raw JSON

  • Add functionality to check for zero-length data sets returned by abs_stats, to avoid failing on bind_rows step. [COMPLETED 2019-12-20]

  • The ABS Engineering Construction tables seem to require that the sub(regex_table_name, ...) has ignore.case = TRUE (to capture "TABLE") - [COMPLETED 2018-09-15]

  • Add function to list all available releases for a specified catalogue number. [COMPLETED 2019-12-20 - abs_cat_releases]

  • Fix path variables in abs_cat_tables function.

  • Fix rba_stats function - error on loading tables D2 & G3, among possible others. (Reported by David Stephan ) - [COMPLETED 2019-12-20]

ABS API functions

  • abs_stats function - Add simplify argument to abs_stats function to provide option to return raw sdmx-json format output

  • Simplify abs_cachetable to include only a list of datasets and call abs_metadata each time detailed dataset information is required.

  • Wrap all url calls inside a try/catch

    • Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available

  • Test all ABS catalogue functions

  • abs_cat_stats

    • Insert code to handle Date class releases arguments, e.g. releases=as.Date("2017-12-01").
    • Add header_start and header_rows argument to abs_cat_stats function.
    • Add return_urls functionality to abs_cat_stats function - [DONE 2018-11-01]

  • abs_cat_tables

    • Add code to handle varying number of paths returned by abs_cat_tables
    • Remove Released 'dd/mm/yyyy' columns from final results.
    • Modify abs_cat_tables function to list tables for specified catalogue numbers. [DONE 2018-11-05]
    • Generalise abs_cat_tables function to handle non-time series results with only one column of URLs. [DONE 2018-11-06]

  • abs_cat_unzip

    • Added exdir argument - [DONE 2018-11-01]

  • abs_cat_download

    • Added exdir argument - [DONE 2018-11-01]

  • Candidate additional arguments for abs_stats #' @param include_lastUpdated = FALSE A character vector of regular expressions denoting #' tables to download. The default ('All') downloads all time series spreadsheet tables for each #' specified catalogue. Use a list to specify different table sets for each specified ABS #' catalogue number.

  • Check warning messages issued by rba_stats(url = ...): #' Warning messages: #' 1: In eval(substitute(list(...)), _data, parent.frame()) : #' NAs introduced by coercion