- Added profile and region arguments to create_connection, which are then given to AWS when fetching the parameters.
- Set David Robinson as maintainer
- Turn slashes into hyphens when saving a connection cache file (supports tiered access, in which parameters can contain "/")
- Changed
get_creds
to get all parameters from AWS in one query
- Offer redshift as an alternative, using the Postgres driver
- DBI is now in DEPENDS rather than IMPORTS
- Allow passing ... to
create_connection
(andcreate_connection_pool
) to pass additional parameters todbConnect
(or todbPool
).
- Added a
NEWS.md
file to track changes to the package. - Switched from RMySQL (no longer supported) to RMariaDB
- Moved driver packages from Suggests to Imports so that they no longer have to be installed separately (all are on CRAN)
- Added support for Amazon AWS Athena, which takes on the odbc package as a dependency. (It requires the Simba Athena ODBC driver to be installed)