Review {odns} for inspiration

[Moohan]

I was made aware of this package - https://github.com/jrh-dev/odns - written by @jrh-dev. It's not been updated in a while and I couldn't install it on the PHS Posit Workbench (possibly due to the R version). Still, it looks like it has some interesting features that are doing things differently to {phsopendata} in some cases.

I think it would be worth a review of the code which will probably generate a list of things to explore or add to this package in the future.

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1. Look at using package_search to allow finding only relevant data sets https://github.com/jrh-dev/odns/blob/main/R/all_packages.R
2. Look at using the sql endpoint to allow more flexible searching withe get_resource / get_dataset

[jrh-dev]

Hey @Moohan , the package was previously on CRAN, it began failing in latest R versions and I haven't had time to maintain it. If it is useful, happy to pass ownership or collaborate.

[Moohan]

Hey James, the idea is to get phsopendata on CRAN in the near future. I'd be keen to hear anything you think is better about odns for us to try and replicate here though! We've quite a few features to phsopendata recently and there's probably been a lot of changes since you last looked at either package.

I just opened a PR to use httr::RETRY(#45). From a quick look, I also noticed you use package_search... I'm going to add a tasklist to my original comment which I think anyone can add to with interesting bits!