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R package rdataone by DataONEorg — release notes from GitHub.

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The R client for DataONE ships slow, correctness-focused maintenance

research-datadata-repositoryr-clientaccess-controlmaintenance
◆Current state
rdataone is the R client for the DataONE federated research-data network, handling authentication, upload and retrieval of data packages against member nodes. Recent work is concentrated on correctness in the upload path — rightsHolder persistence, public-read flags applied across all objects in a package, and edge cases in archive() — plus dependency trimming. The feed's version stamps are unreliable: 2.2.2 carries a later publication date than 2.3.0, which cites 2.2.2 as its own predecessor.
◆Where it's heading
This is long-cycle infrastructure maintenance, not feature development. Release intervals run to years, and the content is dominated by access-control correctness, CRAN compliance and TLS/platform fixes rather than new client capability. The one consistent thread is hardening how permissions and checksums survive a round trip to a member node.
◆Prediction
Expect continued low-frequency releases driven by CRAN check failures and platform TLS changes, with any functional work staying in the upload and permissions path rather than the query surface.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4mo ago

    Permission bugs fixed in data package uploads

    Two access-control bugs are corrected: rightsHolder now persists when uploading a data package, and public = TRUE actually sets public read on every object rather than a subset. The hash dependency is dropped and D1Client gains a new method signature. Note the feed's ordering is unreliable here — this entry is stamped later than 2.3.0 despite being the earlier version.

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  2. 8mo ago

    Windows TLS 1.2 fix unblocks client connections

    Forcing TLS 1.2 client-side resolves a Windows connection error, which is the difference between a working and non-working client on that platform. The rest is documentation cross-references and a timezone warning in the certificate-expiry test.

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  3. 5y ago

    SHA-256 checksums and changed lazyLoad behaviour

    A substantive release by this feed's standards: SHA-256 replaces the prior checksum for sysmeta and object uploads, lazyLoad semantics change for getDataObject() and getDataPackage(), and Solr multi-valued query fields now come back as R lists. Several of these change behaviour callers may depend on.

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  4. 6y ago

    dataone 2.1.4

    Housekeeping: a deprecated function marked defunct, CRAN check warnings cleared, a knitr/RDS dependency dropped for R 3.5 and a subscript-out-of-bounds fix in getDataPackage().

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  5. 6y ago

    dataone 2.1.3

    A single change ensuring DataONE network errors do not fail the package checks — test infrastructure, with no user-visible effect.

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  6. 7y ago

    dataone 2.1.2

    Improved error handling for calls to the DataONE resolve service and a duplicate vignette index entry removed. Routine maintenance in the long gap between functional releases.

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