arcgisutils vs Grafana Mimir

arcgisutils is the foundation of the R interface to ArcGIS — token handling, standardized httr2 request construction, and conversion between Esri JSON and R types for the packages built on top of it. Version 0.4.0 in October 2025 broadened it well past that role, adding functions to enumerate a portal's federated servers, users and resources, search content with automatic pagination, and submit geoprocessing jobs through new S7 classes. Token management has been on its current footing since 0.2.0, which moved tokens into an internal environment supporting multiple named keys.

The package is expanding from request plumbing into direct coverage of the ArcGIS Enterprise administrative and geoprocessing surface, which is a different kind of work from what it existed to support. Much of the new surface is marked experimental, so the shape is still being settled. Alongside the expansion runs steady API tidying — three deprecations and two functions removed outright in the same release, one of which dropped the dbplyr dependency.

The experimental sharing-API and URL-parsing functions are the most likely to change or firm up next, and the geoprocessing classes suggest job execution will be built out further. Given this package sits beneath arcgislayers, the deprecations introduced here will need a corresponding pass downstream.