NEWS

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pulso 0.1.0 (2026-06-12)

Initial CRAN release

pulso provides programmatic access to microdata from Colombia's Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH), published monthly by DANE.

Functions

Loading data:

• pulso_load() -- download and parse a single GEIH module
• pulso_load_merged() -- download and merge multiple persona-level modules

Column metadata:

• pulso_describe_column() -- describe a single column in loaded data
• pulso_list_columns_metadata() -- list metadata for all columns in a tibble

Catalog and validation:

• pulso_list_validated_range() -- list periods with verified downloads
• pulso_validation_status() -- validation info for a specific period

Module and variable discovery:

• pulso_describe() -- describe a survey module
• pulso_describe_variable() -- describe a canonical variable and its epoch mappings
• pulso_list_variables() -- list canonical variables, optionally filtered by module

Banco de la República data:

• pulso_tpm() -- download the monetary policy rate (TPM) set by Banco de la República, with automatic fallback to a bundled snapshot when the live SDMX API is unavailable

Bug fixes (pre-CRAN)

• BUG-003/010: Fixed Unicode filename handling. Modules with tildes (caracteristicas_generales, migracion) now load correctly on all platforms including macOS and Windows. Uses base unz() connection to read CP437-encoded zip entries without writing to disk.
• BUG-004: Fixed epoch1 column variance crash. dplyr::bind_rows() replaces rbind() to handle Cabecera/Resto CSVs with type-mismatched shared columns. Affects 2007-2021 (14 years of data).
• BUG-005: Auto-detect CSV separator. data.table::fread(sep="auto") replaces read.csv(sep=";") to handle period-specific delimiters. Affects 2022-01.
• BUG-006: pulso_load() now raises pulso_data_not_validated by default for unvalidated periods. Pass allow_unvalidated = TRUE to load with a visible warning. Currently 5 periods are validated: 2007-12, 2015-06, 2021-12, 2022-01, 2024-06.
• BUG-011: Vignettes are pre-built in the package tarball.
• BUG-017: Keyword matcher now accepts numeric suffixes in filenames (e.g., Ocupados06.csv). Affects 2013-06.
• BUG-018: Added Shape C dispatch for COVID-period single-CSV variants. Affects 2020-06 and 2020-12.
• BUG-NEW-001: Skip adding synthetic CLASE column when the DANE CSV already contains one (case-insensitive check). Prevents duplicate- column error on tibble::as_tibble(). Affects 2014-06, 2015-06, and other periods where DANE encodes clase directly in Cabecera/Resto CSVs.

Known Limitations

• Only 5/230 periods are explicitly validated. Use allow_unvalidated = TRUE for the rest.
• Variable map (Curator) entries have comparability_warning flag. Use pulso_list_variables() to see has_warning column.
• Nested-zip periods (2024-03, 2024-04) raise pulso_parse_error with a v0.2.0 deferral notice.
• ECH epoch (2000-2006) not yet supported. Planned for v0.2.0.
• Mixed-level merges (persona + hogar in same pulso_load_merged() call) deferred to v0.2.0.
• Banco de la República integration currently covers the policy rate (pulso_tpm()) only. The Indicador Bancario de Referencia (IBR) and a generic SDMX accessor are deferred to v0.2.0.