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cansim 0.3.17 (2024-11-06)

Minor changes

• fix problem with reading French tables released by the census division
• restore original column order after converting to factors
• convery geography column to factor if available
• fix problem with add_provincial_abbreviations that could lead to mislabelling of provinces in some cases
• improve handling of metadata, enable downloading only metadata instead of only via full table download
• fold metadata into data when accessing via vector or coordinates
• allow for cansim vectors in view_cansim_webpage to view vector information from statcan in the browser

cansim 0.3.16 (2024-03-12)

Minor changes

• improve offline handling when StatCan servers are down
• improve metadata handling when Member ID order is mixed up in metadata
• fix problem with refreshing data in get_cansim_vectors

cansim 0.3.15 (2023-10-10)

Minor changes

• accommodate quirks in table 98-10-0017

cansim 0.3.14 (2023-01-20)

Minor changes

• Better header parsing to avoid warning messages
• Fix problem with some semi-wide tables

cansim 0.3.13 (2022-11-07)

Minor changes

• Speed up access to cached sqlite tables
• Fix problem with get_cansim_vector_info()

cansim 0.3.12 (2022-07-12)

Major changes

• Fix bug that causes collect_and_normalize not to function on some operating systems

cansim 0.3.11 (2022-05-10)

Major changes

• Support for new semi-wide table format, e.g. Census data releases

Minor changes

• Improvement in offline handling of sqlite tables

cansim 0.3.10 (2021-09-27)

Minor changes

• Better error handling when StatCan returns empty tables
• Add Hierachy for Geography in sqlite tables
• Better fallback and warning messages when StatCan table categories are internally inconsistent
• Performance improvements

cansim 0.3.9 (2021-07-29)

Major changes

• deprecate list_cansim_tables and serach_cansim_tables and fallback to corresponding "_cube" methods as Open Data Canada API has changed and similar functionality is available through the "_cube" methods that tie directly into StatCan APIS

Minor changes

• Fix issues with top level duplicate categories
• Check for expired tables in list_cansim_sqlite_cached_tables
• New auto-update feature for sqlite tables

cansim 0.3.8 (2021-05-27)

Minor changes

• Exclude vignette from automatic CRAN checks to fix problem of CRAN checks failing when StatCan servers are down and lead to the package being removed from CRAN (checks are still active in local environment and when using GitHub action checks)
• add release date info to cube metadata and cube list calls
• add auto-refresh option for sqlite tables
• remove deprecated adjust_cansim_values_by_variable function

cansim 0.3.7 (2021-05-10)

Minor changes

• Fix problem with UTF-8 encoding on solaris
• move dbplyr dependence from Imports to Suggests

cansim 0.3.6 (2021-05-08)

Major changes

• Fold part of normalize_cansim_values into the default table and vector output, in particular always add a scaled variable column called val_norm and an imputed Date column and covert categories to factors by default.
• New get_cansim_sqlite function that stores tables in an SQLite database and facilitates access and managemet of data.

Minor changes

• Adapt to changes in dplyr, tidyr, and tibble
• fix a bug that would not properly add hierarchies when category names are repeated
• Use system unzip if getOption("unzip") is set to enable unzip for files larger than 4GB on unix-like systems

cansim 0.3.5 (2020-03-13)

Minor changes

• Exclude all vignettes and example code from compilation as this may cause CRAN check errors when StatCan servers are down or otherwise temporarily unavailable

cansim 0.3.4 (2020-03-05)

Minor changes

• Expand get_cansim_table_notes() functionality
• Add functionality to access the new cube list API

cansim 0.3.3 (2019-10-15)

Minor changes

• Fix time zone problem when parsing and formatting times for the StatCan API

cansim 0.3.2 (2019-08-26)

Minor changes

• Adjust package for changes in StatCan API with different metadata format

cansim 0.3.1 (2019-08-19)

Major changes

• Fixes issues arising from StatCan changing their API row limit

Minor changes

• Optimize vector retrieval by REF_DATE

cansim 0.3.0 (2019-07-18)

Minor changes

• Fixes issues arising from StatCan changing their API
• Member Names come concatenated with Classification Code by default, this could break existing code.
• Adds option to change fields to factors
• Adds option to strip Classification Codes from fields
• Exposes timeout limit to deal with slow connections and large tables

cansim 0.2.3 (2019-01-07)

Minor changes

• More robust table download functions
• Improved documentation

cansim 0.2.2 (2018-12-18)

Major changes

• Initial CRAN release
• French metadata implemented