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hereR

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Velocity0.0

'sf'-Based Interface to the 'HERE' REST APIs

github.com/munterfi/herer ↗

An R client for HERE's location APIs, shaped almost entirely by what the vendor exposes next.

geospatialroutingapi-clientr-packageisolineshere-maps
◆Current state
hereR wraps HERE's routing, isoline, traffic, weather and geocoding endpoints for R, returning sf objects. Development is steady and reactive: each release either adopts a transport mode, parameter or API version HERE has newly made available, or corrects a rate limit that was producing 429 errors in practice. The current release adds speed-limit control and five more isoline transport modes.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads run through the whole history. One is coverage — new modes, tolls and currency, arrival times, speed limits — arriving in the package shortly after they appear in HERE's API. The other is defensive operational tuning, with request rates repeatedly lowered below HERE's documented limits because the documented limits do not hold up. 1.0.0 was the one moment the package had to move rather than choose, migrating traffic to v7 and weather to v3 and breaking three functions' output in the process.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to enable whatever HERE exposes next in routing or isolines, and to keep adjusting request rates empirically; the package's own design appears settled.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Speed limits and five more isoline transport modes

    Coverage catches up with HERE again: isoline() gains bicycle, scooter, taxi, bus and privateBus modes as the API exposes them, and a speed_limit parameter maps to pedestrian[speed] or vehicle[speedCap] depending on mode. The testthat mocking migration underneath is housekeeping.

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  2. 1y ago

    Pedestrian consumption model dropped; route request rate lowered

    Two operational corrections: the consumption model is no longer attached to pedestrian requests where it makes no sense, and route()'s request rate is pulled below HERE's documented 10 RPS because that limit produces 429s in practice. The note is internally inconsistent about the resulting figure.

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  3. 2y ago

    Traffic v7 and Weather v3 migration breaks three functions

    The major-version release is really a forced migration: HERE Traffic moves to v7 and Destination Weather to v3, breaking the output of weather(), flow() and incidents(). The package's own additions are smaller — sfc geometry columns accepted as input, and a new example AOI chosen because the traffic endpoints cap bounding boxes at one degree.

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  4. 3y ago

    Resubmission after CRAN archival over an undeliverable email

    A resubmission after CRAN archived the package because the maintainer's email was temporarily undeliverable. Administrative recovery, no code change beyond CI action versions.

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  5. 4y ago

    Toll costs and currency selection arrive in routing

    Routes can return toll costs for car, truck, taxi and bus, with a parameter controlling whether road-tax vignettes count toward the total and set_currency() choosing the ISO 4217 currency. Four more transport modes land in route() and route_matrix(). The weather endpoint's request rate is cut again after 429s.

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  6. 4y ago

    Arrival-time routing enabled; failed requests report their endpoint

    Arrival-time routing starts working once HERE's Routing API supports it, and failing requests now report the endpoint URL and the server's error message rather than failing opaquely. Rate limits are added for the weather and traffic endpoints, continuing the pattern.

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