ctrdata v1.26.1

Bug fix

• Addressed marginal cases in f.primaryEndpointResults(), added more references to f.externalLinks()
• dbQueryHistory() no more errors but returns NULL and a message with a non-existing or empty collection
• Added typing of newly appearing field in CTIS
• Improved error message for failed CTGOV2 queries

ctrdata v1.26.0

Enhancement

• Refactored downloading data and documents to run, throttle and retry more robustly
• Updated user info, clarify history is updated only if at least one trial is loaded

Bug fix

• For CTIS, dbFindIdsUniqueTrials() returns now only the trial record with the highest resubmission number
• For EUCTR, correct edge case downloading third-country protocol-related information
• Fixed links between help pages and vignettes
• Code cleanup

ctrdata v1.25.1

Enhancement

• Work around upstream issue (#59, CTIS delivering at most 10000 trials per query)
• Add CITATION file with recent reference publication

Bug fix

• Re-added field missing from EUCTR conversion
• Changed API call after long deprecated by ISRCTN
• Ordered messages from dbFindIdsUniqueTrials(), f.isUniqueTrial()
• Adapt to extended tokens used by CTGOV2

ctrdata v1.25.0

Possibly breaking down-stream workflows

• Save EUCTR result files in folders by trial, as done for documents for all registers

Enhancement

• Revised how EUCTR trials are loaded and updated with results, accelerated operations
• Added retrying requests, to handle refused or throttled responses (e.g., CTIS, #55)
• Added incrementing numbers of historic versions of CTIS when running ctrLoadQueryIntoDb()
• Simplified, accelerated loading NDJSON files, minimising database record deletions
• Changed deleting and preserving temporary files (see also news for version 1.17.0)

Bug fixes

• Refined indicator variables for f.hasResults()
• Added missing status code in f.statusRecruitment()
• Corrected missing value handling in f.sponsorType()

ctrdata v1.24.1

• Bug fix for ctrGenerateQueries() (country reference list, parameter chaining)
• Handle conversion of numbers with thousands separator
• Fixed documentation gaps

ctrdata v1.24.0

• Added parameter euctrprotocolsall for loading from EUCTR; if FALSE, this speeds up loading as only a single and no all records of a trial are loaded
• Tightened query for medicine-interventional trials in ctrGenerateQueries() for CTGOV2
• Added trial concepts f.assignmentType(), f.externalLinks(), f.hasResults()
• Improved trial concept f.controlType() and added "mixed"to f.sponsorType()
• Expanded functionality of ctrGenerateQueries() for CTGOV2 expert searches
• Bug fix for subsetting data frames when calculating trial concepts
• Removed long deprecated parameters from ctrLoadQueryIntoDb(), dbGetFieldsIntoDf()
• Increased testing coverage to more than 94% of code lines

ctrdata v1.23.0

Improvements

• Refactored for EUCTR protocol data ctrLoadQueryIntoDb() for large speed gain
• Improved downloading more documents from ISRCTN, however needs live webpage read
• Replaced curl with httr2 and further refactored file retrieval
• Reduced dependencies using equivalent alternative functions

Bug fixes

• Cover multiple sponsors in EUCTR for f.sponsorType()
• Change priority of CTIS fields for f.sponsorType()
• Added typing of newly appearing CTIS fields

ctrdata v1.22.3

• Added dev version of nodbi to GitHub Action
• Added typing to CTIS field for f.statusRecruitment
• Improved f.likelyPlatfromTrial (mangling title excerpts, add a missing default, sort ids in .maybeRelatedTrials, added back associated trials, updated similarity and user info)
• Accelerated file operations that still used cat

ctrdata v1.22.2

• Added typing for further CTGOV2 and CTIS fields
• Adapt a test to modified terminal output in certain IDEs
• Refactored dfMergeVariablesRelevel() and keep type if rows include only a single value
• Fixed counting trial sites outside the EEA for EUCTR
• Fixed regression in dbFindIdsUniqueTrials()
• Fixed typo in ctrGenerateQueries()
• Updated documentation

ctrdata v1.22.1

Bug fix

• Adapt testing after SQLite 3.48.0 (in RSQLite 2.3.10 since 2025-05-02) accepts now up to 1000 arguments
• Fixed EUCTR conversion to NDJSON in Javascript for rare specific trial(s), thanks @machado-t (#45)
• Revised dbFindIdsUniqueTrials() to work with more than 80,000 records, thanks @machado-t (#48)

Internal

• Modify internal function .dbMapIdsTrials() to use both CTIS1 and CTIS2 field names, and defer de-duplication to parent function