Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

googleAnalyticsR 1.0.12021-10-07

  • Allow json_file argument in ga_auth() to be any one of the forms supported for the txt argument of jsonlite::fromJSON() (typically, a file path or JSON string), to align with implementation in downstream libraries (googleAuthR and gargle)

googleAnalyticsR 1.0.02021-04-17

  • Allow authentication with service JSON keys without needing to change default client.id e.g. ga_auth(json_file="auth-key.json") (#324 - thanks @adamribaudo)
  • Fix GA Adwords list parsing (#322 - thanks @millett-a)
  • Add getUniversalMetadata API fetch to ga_meta(version="data") (#335)
  • Fix for passing ganalytics-style expressions for dimension and metric filters/segments (#339 and #305), which also resolves #279 (and improves on #253) for continued support of combining expressions (for filters and segments) using list().
  • Support new Google Analytics 4 APIs via ga_data() (#335)
  • Add ga_data_aggregations(), ga_data_filter(), ga_data_order() for working with ga_data() (#335)
  • Remove support for API v3 multi-account batching (#347)
  • Deprecate google_analytics_3() (#347)
  • Add GA4’s Admin API to ga_account_list("ga4") (#350)
  • Remove ga_model_tweet()
  • Add new Shiny module for GA4 web properties - accountPicker() (#357)
  • Add new Shiny module for GA4 fields - metricDimensionSelect() (#357)
  • Enable generation of Shiny apps from ga_model() objects using template files ga_model_shiny() (#358)
  • Create Dockerfile for deployment of shiny apps so they can be deployed to shinyapps.io and Cloud Run via googleCloudRunner (#367)
  • From 0.9.0 there will be a dev version of the website at https://8-bit-sheep.com/googleAnalyticsR/dev/ with the development documentation. https://8-bit-sheep.com/googleAnalyticsR/ will only carry the CRAN version.
  • Add Measurement Protocol v2 functions ga_mp_send(), ga_mp_event() and ga_mp_event_item() (#370)
  • Clean up a lot of functions and objects in the NAMESPACE

googleAnalyticsR 0.8.02020-06-24

  • fix ga_account_list() not downloading starred columns (#284 - thanks @hidekoji)
  • Allow millisecond parsing of times (#314 - thanks @VadimChernik)
  • Update to use cli for nicer looking user messaging
  • Change the default client.id (#311)
  • Allow authentication via a service account key directly in ga_auth(json = "file.json")
  • Remove GARGLE_EMAIL auto-auth on package load as could stop package loading under some circumstances.
  • Add ga_auth_setup() to help walk through some of the advanced authentication setups
  • Fix fetching all rows for google_analytics() when slow_fetch=TRUE and max=-1 (#321 - thanks @wdwatkins)
  • Move to Cloud Build authenticated tests via googleCloudRunner

googleAnalyticsR 0.7.12019-11-04

  • slow_fetch=TRUE now respects the max_rows argument (#282)
  • remove trailing slash breaking v3 API calls (#286 - thanks @octaviancorlade)

googleAnalyticsR 0.7.02019-09-17

  • Clean up error messages
  • Fix anti_sampling breaking if using date formats “4daysAgo” etc.
  • Removed google_analytics_meta() for ga_meta()
  • Add accountId to the output of Shiny module authDropdown when viewIdOnly=FALSE
  • Add quotaUser to reporting v4 API requests to avoid quota limits if several users from same ip attempt to run API calls (#235) - default is Sys.info()[["user"]] or set via options("googleAuthR.quotaUser")
  • Add ga_model_* functions to use GA data (#234)
  • Add ga_model_tweet to enable data viz in tweets
  • Add userActivity API via gar_clientid_activity()
  • Use new authentication setup via googleAuthR v1.0.0 and gargle
  • Prevent use of default client id project in non-interactive scripts.
  • Update docs to use clientId dimension in user activity API calls
  • Update tidyr::unnest to use cols parameter (#266)
  • Add ga_custom_upload_delete() - thanks @byapprov (#263)
  • Fix sending in multiple segment definitions in a list (#253)
  • Fix ga_segment_list() returning data if no custom segments created (#259)
  • Fix ability to list multiple dimensions and segments (#279)

googleAnalyticsR 0.6.02018-12-21

  • Add goal management
  • Add ga_clientid_deletion() function (#168) (renamed from ga_user_deletion())
  • Let authDropdown return more than just the viewId (#172)
  • Export segment related classes and implicitly coerce table filters and segments to their appropriate classes in order to improve integration with the ganalytics package.
  • Add support for dataLastRefreshed and stop caching if its present (e.g. query includes today) (#183)
  • Export dim_ga4, met_ga4 and order_type_ga4 classes in order to support the complete conversion of ganalytics query objects into googleAnalyticsR API requests.
  • Fix segments that were not respecting “IMMEDIATELY_PRECEDES” vs “PRECEDES” (thanks @digitos) (#180)
  • Fix default of pivot groups so they include first column (thanks @gilliganondata) (#107)
  • Support for creating remarketing audiences (#161)
  • Support “NdaysAgo” in antisample calls (#209)
  • Support more than 1000 entries in various management list functions (#174)
  • Parse management API list responses into data.frames (#194)
  • Add user management functions such as ga_users_delete, ga_users_update and ga_users_add
  • Add custom dimension functions ga_custom_vars_create and ga_custom_vars_patch

googleAnalyticsR 0.4.12017-06-19

Fixed

  • Fix attempt to set an attribute on NULL error for anti-sample
  • Fixed anti_sample="auto" math to actually limit the number of sessions for the auto-batches
  • Fixed error when no data present in requested date_range for a view, and max = -1
  • Fix logic of anti_sample_batches to allow accurate day batches. (#74)
  • Fix parsing of ga_account_summary broken by upgrade from dplyr 0.5.0 > dplyr 0.7.0

Added

  • Add warning if using default project, and if API quota is tripped (#79)
  • refactor defensive checks from testthat to assertthat

googleAnalyticsR 0.4.02017-04-01

Added

  • Deprecate google_analytics_account_list for ga_account_list to be in line with other functions
  • Add custom data uploads via ga_custom_upload_file()
  • Cleaned up documentation a bit
  • Added auto-authentication if you specify environment var GA_AUTH_FILE
  • Add Remarketing Audience functions - ga_remarketing_get and ga_remarketing_list
  • Add aggregateGAData which will aggregate over GA dimensions
  • Add antiSampleWorked TRUE/FALSE attribute to tables when anti-sampling attempted
  • Add a slow_fetch flag to google_analytics_4 that will avoid batching for big complicated fetches
  • Add ga_users_list for listing users on account, webProperty or View level
  • Set default Google Project API permissions to:
    • "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics"
    • "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly"
    • "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.manage.users.readonly"
    • "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit"
    • "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.manage.users"

Fixed

  • Use aggregateGAData to solve issue with anti_sampling repeating rows (#49)
  • Fix bug with anti-sample when periods included 0-row data (#42)
  • Fix google_analytics_account_list() parsing bug if only one view available (#52, #41)
  • Fix segments not being able to be used in Cohort reports (#63)
  • Fix bug with anti-sample when querying over 1000 days (#66 - thanks @olivia-icivics)

googleAnalyticsR 0.3.02016-08-11

Added

  • Add BigQuery asynch fetch to Google Analytics 360 exports, for over 1,000,000 rows.
  • A GA v4 example Shiny app added that runs on https://mark.shinyapps.io/googleAnalyticsRv4Demo/
  • New argument anti_sample for google_analytics_4() which will split up the calls into efficient batches to avoid sampling. Includes experimental sub-day hourly batching.
  • Set argument max = -1 in google_analytics_4() to fetch all results.
  • Add fix for google_analytics_account_summary parsing when no views in web properties.
  • New argument anti_sample_batches lets you choose batch sizes (daily is equal to anti_sample_batches=1)
  • Add several management API functions:
    • ga_accounts
    • ga_adwords
    • ga_adwords_list
    • ga_custom_datasource
    • ga_custom_upload
    • ga_custom_upload_list
    • ga_custom_vars
    • ga_custom_vars_list
    • ga_experiment
    • ga_experiment_list
    • ga_filter
    • ga_filter_list
    • ga_filter_view
    • ga_filter_view_list
    • ga_goal
    • ga_goal_list
    • ga_segment_list
    • ga_unsampled
    • ga_unsampled_list
    • ga_view
    • ga_view_list
    • ga_webproperty
    • ga_webproperty_list

Fixed

  • Fix bug for calculated metrics if expression not starting with ga: (#28)
  • Fix a parse bug if only metrics and no dimensions were used in google_analytics_4()
  • Refactoring v4 batching

googleAnalyticsR 0.2.12016-06-16

Fixed

  • Fix v4 bug where batches over 10000 had extra rows added (#19)

googleAnalyticsR 0.2.02016-06-15

Added

  • segment helper as RStudio Addin or gadget_GASegment()
  • Local tests added
  • Multi-account batching for v3 (#17)
  • Add BigQuery fetching for GoogleAnalytics 360 accounts via google_analytics_bq()

Fixed

  • Fix order_type() for v4 (#18)

googleAnalyticsR 0.1.12016-05-25

Fixed

  • Patch to fix ignoring first row of v4 API results (#16)

googleAnalyticsR 0.1.02016-05-12

Added

  • v4 API calls implemented