v0.2.6 Enhancement release

This release contains significant contributions for:

• Azure batch accounts (create, list, delete) to work in conjunction with the doAzureParallel package
• Support the API to query Azure cost and rate card

Specifically:

• Added Azure Batch functions #77
• Added cost and pricing functions #79

Other changes:

• Added documentation how to access the blob API without azureActiveContext authentication #76
• Fix typos and errors in vignettes #75

v0.2.5

Enhancements:

• Create RStudio addins to list azure resources and VMs #72
• Authenticate using information in a JSON file at ~/.asuresmr/config.json #70

Bug fixes:

• Fix azureRunScriptAction() that returns 404 bug #58

v0.2.4 Refactor release

This release fixes some bugs but is mostly a complete refactor of the code base. The benefit of this is:

• Improved validation of inputs
• Error trapping and reporting after every call to Azure
• Completely new test suite

Enhancements:

• Improved error handling for Virtual Machines #59

Bug fixes:

• azureRunScriptAction() returns 404 #58
• SetAzureContext needs to be called twice in order to retrieve storage key #41
• Fix errors in blob functions introduced during refactoring #65

Internal changes:

• Use assertthat to validate input #61
• Refactor code base to trap errors and validate input #62

v0.2.3 Bug fix release

Bug fixes:

• Changed date format to use httr date format, pull request by @brnleehng #56
• Add location as a parameter for azureCreateStorageAccount function, pull request by @akzaidi #53
• Authentication fails if key contains special characters #40

Enhancements:

• Create abstraction layer to communicate with Azure storage API #46
• Support blob functions without authentication #44
• Remove limit of 5000 blobs returned from azureListStorageBlobs() #48

Changes in API:

• Remove redundant arguments in functions #50

v0.2.2 Significant update - first quasi-stable release

This release introduced further breaking changes, notably:

• Rename package to AzureSMR
• Continue renaming all functions and arguments to lowerCamelCase

Other changes and fixes are listed in the milestone issue log, for example:

• Better error handling
• Return empty data frames instead of NULL or warning when results are empty
• Include unit test framework
• Better documentation for functions, arguments and vignette

v0.2.1 Breaking changes to function names

This release converted all function names to lowerCamelCase

v0.2.0 Refactor release

This release fixes many internal issues that caused R package checks to fail.

v0.1 Initial release

First draft release to github.