NEWS
cancensus 0.5.7 (2024-02-10)
- fix issue with path names not quoted properly when downoading and unpacking geosuite data
- support versions in WDS data, in paricular for federal electoral districts
cancensus 0.5.6 (2023-10-04)
- fix issue when using named vectors to query data for non-existent geographies, return NULL in this case instead of throwing error
- fix problem with population centre geographic data download
- support newly released Forward Sortation Area geography for statcan geography and WDS functionality
- remove instances of new native R pipe |> with dplyr pipe %>% to preserve compatibility with older R versions
cancensus 0.5.5 (2023-01-23)
- add functionality for direct access to StatCan census WDS for 2021
- add functionality to download original StatCan geographies for 2021
- update CODES_TABLE for 2021 census
cancensus 0.5.4 (2022-11-07)
- added ability to query census datasets by year
- added a convenience function for creating unique names within given selection of regions from
list_census_regions()
- added a check and context menu to install
sf package when user requests spatial data but does not have the required package installed as opposed to erroring out.
- improved checking that correct spatial formats are requested
- preparing for 'sp' spatial format usage deprecation in future versions
cancensus 0.5.3 (2022-08-25)
- Added a check and context menu to install
sf package when user requests spatial data but does not have the required package installed as opposed to stopping with an error.
- fixes a bug in the local data recall check
cancensus 0.5.2 (2022-08-19)
- resolved broken and relocated links picked up in CRAN pretesting
cancensus 0.5.1
- Added functionality for users to detect and remove locally cached data that has been recalled by Statistics Canada
- added a check on initial
get_census call that produces a warning if locally cached data has been recalled by Statistics Canada
- added option to retrieve higher-resolution geometries in
get_census
Minor changes
- renamed get/set cache/api_key functions to avoid name conflicts with related packages
cancensus 0.5.0 (2022-02-08)
Minor changes
- Added cache metadata
- overview information on cached data
- allow selective removing of cached data
cancensus 0.4.3 (2021-06-08)
Minor changes
- Fixed a problem with
sf compatibility and agr attribute
- Fixed a problem with querying geographic data for multiple geographic levels
cancensus 0.4.2 (2021-02-09)
Minor changes
- Fixed a minor problem where cache path wasn't always picked up
- Added optional argument
keep_parent when calling child_census_vectors() that retains the input parent variable in the list of result. We found that in many cases user would follow up a call to child_census_vectors() with a bind_rows(...) to do this, so this should save a step.
cancensus 0.4.1 (2021-01-27)
Minor changes
- Fixed minor problem where API key wasn't always picked up if not set correctly as environment variable.
- Fixed warning when
t column not present in downloaded data.
cancensus 0.4.0 (2021-01-16)
Major changes
- Added
get_intersecting_geometry function to take advantage of new Censusmapper API endpoint. Check out the new vignette detailing how to use it.
Minor changes
- Slightly reworked how to configure and store user API keys and cache locations. New functions
set_api_key, set_cache_path, show_api_key, and show_cache_path added.
- Fixes various warnings due to recent changes in tibble and dplyr.
cancensus 0.3.2 (2020-07-16)
Major changes
- Support for 1996 census
- Public availability of dissemination block area level data
Minor changes
- Fixes bug in
find_census_vectors()
cancensus 0.3.1 (2020-06-23)
Minor changes
cancensus 0.3.0
Major changes
- Fully redesigned variable search using
find_census_vectors() and deprecation of `search_census_vectors(). See the Data discovery: resources for finding available and relevant data vignette for additional information.
- Census Agglomerations with defined geographies and Census tracts are separated from CMAs when calling
list_census_regions()
- Additional metadata for catalogue information and attribution is returned when calling
list_census_datasets()
- New functions
explore_census_regions and explore_census_vectors which open a browser page towards the interactive discovery and selection tools on the Censusmapper website
- New function
attribution_for_dataset which provides accurate attribution information for citation and visualizations for a given dataset.
- Additional datasets: T1FF taxfiler data and dwelling type crosstabs, made available by CMHC. For more info, see the new vignettes for these datasets: Additional datasets: Structural type of dwelling by document type, Additional datasets: Annual T1FF taxfiler data.
get_census_geometry() is now hard-deprecated and will stop the program flow. Use get_census() instead.
Minor changes
- Updated internal usage of dependent packages to avoid deprecated functions and warnings
- Additional minor fixes to efficiency improvements
cancensus 0.2.2 (2020-05-12)
Minor changes
- More efficient conversion between
sp and sf spatial objects
- Fixes issue occasionally reported when reading large GeoJSON objects as noted in https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues/138
- Adds
geojsonsf dependency
- Replaces soft deprecated dplyr functions to fix https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues/137
cancensus 0.2.1 (2020-03-05)
Minor changes
- Minor documentation improvements
- Allow for search by vector identifier
- Allow child and parent vector retrieval by vector identifier
- Add functionality for future tax data releases
cancensus 0.2.0 (2019-07-28)
Major changes
- Added a
max_leaves_option for the search_census_vectors function. Adds functionality to set maximum depth for child census vectors, i.e. max_level=NA as an additional parameter. Then e.g. max_level=1 would only get direct children and no grandchildren.
- Resolved issues with mislabeled CD UID for CSD level data
- Improve reliability of character/numeric alignments for geographic UIDS
get_census_geography is now soft deprecated and rolled into the standard get_census with parameters
Minor changes
- Minor documentation improvements
- Soften dependency on
readr package
- Allow for search of internal CensusMapper variables
cancensus 0.1.8 (2018-11-20)
Major changes
- Remove dependency on development versions of
sf and ggplot2 packages
- Add feature allowing for named vector retrieval
Minor Changes
- Vignette updates
- Calls that retrieve only geography will now return geographic hierarchy information as well
- Small tweaks that make it easier to do 2011-2016 intra-census comparisons
Bug fixes
- Fix labels when geo format is
sf
- Remove some unnecessary code for geographic hierarchies
cancensus 0.1.7 (2018-02-04)
Major changes
- Set default caching to
tempdir()
- Encourage users to set up local persistent caching using
options(cancensus.cache_path = 'XXX')
cancensus 0.1.6 (2018-01-24)
Major changes
Minor changes
- Ensured that data frames were
sf-class data frames if option sf was selected for spatial data.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where
read.csv was incorrectly loading text data if readr::read_csv was not available
cancensus 0.1.5
Major changes
- Added a
NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
- Added pkgdown documentation
- New vignettes - cancensus and Making maps with cancensus
Minor changes
- Default behaviour for
list_census_vectors() changed to have quiet = TRUE
cancensus 0.1.0
Major changes
- Added vector and geography search and discovery capabilities
- Improved performance
- Error and API issue messaging
Minor changes
- Reduced package dependencies
cancensus 0.0.1
Major changes