cancensus 0.5.7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Minor changes
- Added cache metadata
 
- overview information on cached data
 
- allow selective removing of cached data
 
cancensus 0.4.3
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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