CRAN 0.3.2

Major changes

• Support for 1996 census
• Public availability of dissemination block area level data

Minor changes

• Fixes bug in find_census_vectors()
• CRAN check issues (from 0.3.0, fixed in 0.3.1)

v0.3.0-CRAN

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

CRAN 0.2.0

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 mislabelled 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

CRAN update 0.1.8

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

CRAN Release

Major changes

• Set default caching to tempdir()
• Encourage users to set up local persistent caching using options(cancensus.cache_path = 'XXX')

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

Notes

• First release on CRAN