RSiteCatalyst Version 1.4.8 Release Notes

For being in RSiteCatalyst retirement, I’m ending up working on more functionality lately ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Here are the changes for RSiteCatalyst 1.4.8, which should be available on CRAN shortly:

Segment Stacking

RSiteCatalyst now has the ability to take multiple values in the segment.id keyword for the Queue* functions. This functionality was graciously provided by Adam Gitzes, closing an issue that was nearly a year old. At times it felt like I was hazing him with change requests, but for Adam’s first open-source contribution, this is a huge addition in functionality.

So now you are able to pass multiple segments into a function call and get an ‘AND’ behavior like so:
The result (Visits from Social AND Visits from Apple Browsers):

QueueSummary: Now with date.to and date.from keywords

In response to GitHub issue #158, date.to and date.from parameters were added; this was a minor, but long-term oversight (it’s always been possible to do this in the Adobe Analytics API). So now rather than just specifying the date keyword and getting a full-year summary or a full-month, you can specify any arbitrary start/end dates.

Trivial Fixes: Silenced httr message, clarified documentation

Starting with the newest version of httr, you get a message for any API call where the encoding wasn’t set. So for long running Queue* requests, you may have received dozens of warnings to stdout about “No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF–8.” This has been remedied, and the warning should no longer occur.

Also, the documentation for the Queue* functions was clarified to show an example of using SAINT classifications as the report breakdown; hopefully this didn’t cause too much confusion to anyone else.

Volunteers Wanted!

As I referenced in the first paragraph, while I’m fully committed to maintaining RSiteCatalyst, I don’t currently have the time/desire to continue to develop the package to improve functionality. Given that I don’t use this package for my daily work, it’s hard for me to dedicate time to the project.

Thanks again to Adam Gitzes who stepped up and provided significant effort to close an outstanding feature request. I would love if others in the digital analytics community would follow Adam’s lead; don’t worry about whether you are ‘good enough’, get a working solution together and we’ll figure out how to harden the code and get it merged. Be the code change you want to see the world