- Edits the logic of check_api to stop the main function and return a null value if the api is unable to be reached.
- Fixes a typo in test-get_places.R.
- Add the newest release year (2024), updating the API's base URL.
- Added two new arguments:
cat
to query a specific category of measures andage_adjust
to return only the age adjusted rates if set toTRUE
.
- Removed other unnecessary dependencies to improve performance.
- Fixes a bug from 1.1.6 related to overlapping counties when querying census tracts/counties.
- Added functionality to query ZCTA-level data. This is available by setting the 'geography' argument to 'zcta'.
- Added a mechanism to check for overlapping county names. This is useful for querying all levels of data.
- Changed the dependency used to parse JSON data, improving the performance of querying data.
- Added a
NEWS.md
file to track changes to the package. - Added argument 'geometry' to return sf data frame with shapefile for requested geography.
- Added argument 'county' to filter query results by county name.
- Argument 'geo' has been changed to 'geography' for clarity.
- Updated version accepted to CRAN January 24, 2024.
- Replaced 'get_vars' with 'get_dictionary'. This new arguement returns a data frame of all variable availability across all years of PLACES data.
- Initial version of CDCPLACES published to CRAN December 23, 2023.
- Included base functions 'get_vars' and 'get_places'.