Changelog • PxWebApiData

PxWebApiData 1.9.0

CRAN release: 2026-02-02

Major update with new functions related to PxWebApi v2
- get_api_data(): retrieve data from a pre-made URL
- query_url(): generate a URL from specifications
- api_data(): specify and retrieve data in one step
  - closely related to ApiData() for PxWebApi v1
- meta_frames(): metadata structured as data frames
- meta_data(): metadata downloaded without further processing
- meta_code_list(): metadata for code lists, by default structured as a data frame
The package now includes three vignettes
- Using PxWebApi v1 with PxWebApiData (the original introduction vignette)
- Using PxWebApi v2 with PxWebApiData
- Introduction to PxWebApiData, which points to the two version-specific vignettes while preserving the original vignette URL

CRAN release: 2025-11-12

Extended comment() to include note elements and added info() and note() functions
- Reflects an enhancement in the JSON-stat2 metadata, where note is introduced as a new field
- Updated documentation for the makeNAstatus parameter to reference note() for explanation of NA status codes
- Addresses issue #18

CRAN release: 2025-10-08

Switch from readymade datasets to PxWebApi 2 for Statistics Norway examples
- Replaced readymade dataset examples
- Included text about PxWebApi 2 as the new primary API for Statistics Norway (v1 still available with POST)
Strengthened error handling for GET requests
- Added more robust checks of responses and status codes

CRAN release: 2024-11-01

This package has been a stable workhorse, now updated to version 1.0.0.
This package now has a documentation site at https://statisticsnorway.github.io/ssb-pxwebapidata, providing easy access to vignettes and guides.
Now the comment attribute also includes elements tableid and contents whenever these are available.
Minor updates with no changes in functionality
- Changed package license to MIT, in accordance with the policy at Statistics Norway.
- Updated outdated region codes in the vignette under Aggregations using filter agg.
- Some technical changes in documentation to comply with standards.

CRAN release: 2024-01-29

Minor update regarding warnings:
- Previously, some warnings were suppressed to comply with the CRAN policy (refer to version 0.6.0 below). Now, these warnings are instead converted to messages.

CRAN release: 2023-03-26

responseFormat, new parameter to ApiData with "json-stat2" as default.
- Previously, "json-stat2" was not used.
Now a comment attribute with elements label, source and updated is added to output as a named three-element character vector.
- Thus, the comment attribute has been changed from the previous version
- Run the comment function to obtain this information.
Eurostat data example included in the vignette.
More changes to meet CRAN policy as in version 0.6.0 (also when apiPackage = "pxweb")

CRAN release: 2021-10-11

makeNAstatus, new parameter to ApiData which represents new functionality.
- When missing entries in value, the function tries to add an additional variable, named NAstatus, with status codes.

CRAN release: 2021-07-18

Changes to meet CRAN policy:
- Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning nor error).

CRAN release: 2021-03-05

Possible to return a single data set as a data frame: First, second or both combined.
- Handled by the new parameter returnDataSet. Possible non-NULL values are 1, 2 and 12.
- New wrapper functions. Function names ending with 1, 2 or 12.

CRAN release: 2020-11-20