Changelog

DPchecker 0.3.4

2024-02-05 * Fix bug in test_date_range() that was adding UTC to temporalCoverage * test_missing_data() now also handles the missing data codes “blank” and “empty”. * Update test_missing_data() to default to flag whole files, not each column that has undocumented missing data. This condenses the error output when running run_congruence_checks(). When trouble shooting and attempting to pinpoint data that lack missing values, test_missing_data() can be run with the parameter detail_level = “columns”. 2024-01-26 * Bugfixes for test_dates_parse() and test_date_range(): now ignore files that have times but no dates or date times. * Bugfixes for test_valid_fieldnames(), test_valid_filenames(), test_numeric_fields(), test_dates_parse(), and test_date_range() - all the same bug; must be something deep in a dependency chain changed. * Bugfix attempt for test_fields_match() reportedly needs more testing * Add function test_missing_data() which scans data for NAs not documented in metadata

DPchecker 0.3.3

• Bug fixes for test_date_range() and test_dates_parse().
• Adjusted test_datatable_urls() and test_datatable_urls_doi() so that they work properly when there are no data table urls present in metadata.
• Move convert_datetime_format to QCkit; add QCkit as re-export to DPchecker
• Updated tabular_data_congruence.R for speed and stability as per codefactor suggests

DPchecker 0.3.2

• Adjusted test_date_range() so that it can handle data columns that contain both dates and times. Times are truncated to midnight such that if the data collected on the first day indicated is considered “in range” and data collected on the last day indicated is considered “in range”.
• Added test_public_points() to the list of functions in the DPchecker.Rmd file.
• Added test_public_points() to the list of functions run by run_congruence_checks().
• Added test_public_points() function to test whether metadata contains GPS coordinates if the package is not public.
• Added test_keywords() to the list of function in the DPchecker.Rmd file.
• Added test_keywords() to the list of functions run by run_congruence_checks().
• Added new function, test_keywords() to test for presence of keywords in metadata; something that is required for EML extraction on DataStore.
• Updated test_valid_filenames() to accept filenames with hyphens (in addition to filenames with alpha-numerics and underscore). Filenames still must start with a letter.
• Added the test_dates_parse() function to the list of functions in the DPchecker.Rmd file.
• Added the test_dates_parse() function to the list of functions that are run when the function run_congruence_checks() is called.
• Added the function test_dates_parse() to test whether the date formats supplied in the metadata match the values supplied in the data files.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the DPchecker R package.