Roadmap

Below are new features, improvements, and better documentation that are loosely planned for the future. The list is not exhaustive. A full list of enhancements, bugs, and items being considered are listed below as well as the issues page.

Feel free to open new issues to suggest new items or report bugs. If you do wish to contribute, please look at the contribution guidelines; all new contributions must adhere to those instructions.

New features

• Download GeoJSON data and leveraging it for mapping (#43)
• Support for Catalog API calls (e.g., #114, #128)
• Add the additional functionality for the latest API endpoints (version 2.1)
• Adding fine-grain arguments to the read.socrata function for easier scriptability:

read.socrata(url, domain, fourbyfour, app_token, query)

• Allow for easier bulk-exporting of all data from a portal (e.g., #123)
• Add an ability to do some built-in aggregated functions (e.g., counting number of data sets, #101)

Document and maintenance

• Provide more graceful warnings instead of abrupt failures, user-friendly descriptions of errors and their causes, and fewer columns of NA values when errors occur, for instance #16, #121, etc.
• Separate RSocrata.R into separate files for better code organization and reducing merge conflicts.