Provides easier interaction with Socrata open data portals http://dev.socrata.com. Users can provide a 'Socrata' data set resource URL, or a 'Socrata' Open Data API (SoDA) web query, or a 'Socrata' "human-friendly" URL, returns an R data frame. Converts dates to 'POSIX' format. Manages throttling by 'Socrata'.
To address the recent removal from CRAN update the ReadMe to inform users of the removal and provide:
Instructions for a workaround (downloading with devtools)
Steps being taken to address the issue and get RSocrata back on CRAN
Provide a best guess timeline
In normal scripts one would simply install with devtools::install_github("Chicago/RSocrata") rather than using install.packages("RSocrata"). Does anyone (@nicklucius ?) have further suggestions regarding instructions for installation scripts that may be deployed with containerization or other use cases?
Some quick googling led me to https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/02/running-your-r-script-in-docker/. This has very clean and very normal looking Docker instructions. They are using R or Rscript to install packages, which I think is the most normal way. In the past I have installed packages from the command line using apt, but I don't even remember how or why, and I don't see examples of that now. So unless someone speaks up, I won't worry about that potential edge case.
@nicklucius @tomschenkjr I plan to push up a new readme under a branch issue216
geneorama
commented
1 year ago
To address the recent removal from CRAN update the ReadMe to inform users of the removal and provide:
In normal scripts one would simply install with
devtools::install_github("Chicago/RSocrata")rather than usinginstall.packages("RSocrata"). Does anyone (@nicklucius ?) have further suggestions regarding instructions for installation scripts that may be deployed with containerization or other use cases?Some quick googling led me to https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/02/running-your-r-script-in-docker/. This has very clean and very normal looking Docker instructions. They are using R or Rscript to install packages, which I think is the most normal way. In the past I have installed packages from the command line using
apt, but I don't even remember how or why, and I don't see examples of that now. So unless someone speaks up, I won't worry about that potential edge case.@nicklucius @tomschenkjr I plan to push up a new readme under a branch issue216