censobr v0.4.19999 dev

• Major changes
  • New function get_censobr_cache_dir()
  • The function set_censobr_cache_dir() now sets cache directories that persist across R sessions. Closes #55. The data is saved in versioned directory inside the cache directory.
  • The year parameter no longer defaults to 2010.
  • New parameter verbose (logical) indicating whether functions should print messsages
• Minor changes
  • Improved internal code of merge_households = TRUE to avoid duplicated columns
  • Improved package info and error messages with {cli}
  • {censobr} now imports {cli} and {rlang}
• New data set and files included in this version:
  • 2022 census. Closes #64
    • Census-tract level data
    • Census-tract level data dictionary
  • 2000 census. Closes #43
    • Census-tract level data
  • All data sets are save in .parquet compressed using compression='zstd' and compression_level = 22. This has almost halved the size of data files, making downloads much more efficient at minimal cost of reading time.
  • All data sets are now sorted by key columns to speed up join operations. Closes #60.
  • Fixed annoying message about arrow metadata. closed #56.

censobr v0.4.1

• Minor changes
  • Removed {duckplyr} from package dependency
• bug fixes
  • Passing parameter merge_households = TRUE now returns the expected result.

censobr v0.4.0

• Major changes
  • Some functions (read_mortality, read_emigration) now include a new parameter merge_households (logical) to indicate whether the function should merge household variables to the output data. Partially closes #31
  • {censobr} now imports the {duckplyr} package, which is used for merging household data. Closes issue #31.
  • New vignette showing how to work with larger-than-memory data. Closes #42. The vignette still needs to be expanded with more examples, though.
• Minor changes
  • Updated Vignettes Closes issue #51
  • Removed dependency on the {httr} package
  • Now using curl::multi_download() to download files in parallel. This brings the advantage that the package now automatically detects whether the data/documentation file has been updated and should be downloaded again.
• Changes to data sets and files included in this version:
  • Population microdata for the year 2000 now include a few columns that were not included before. Closes #44
  • Included additional columns and fixed minor errors in data dictionary of 2010 microdata. Closes #45
• New data set and files included in this version:
  • 1960 census Closes #32
    • Interview manual
    • Data dictionary for microdata of population and households
    • Microdata of population and households
  • 1970: fixed geography columns. Closes #52
  • 1991 census: Data dictionary for microdata of population and households. Closes #28

censobr v0.3.2

• Minor changes
  • Moved {arrow} package back to Imports
• New data set and files included in this version:
  • 2022 census
    • Preliminary aggregate results of census tracts

censobr v0.3.1

• Minor changes
  • Moved {arrow} package from Imports to Suggests while the {arrow} team fixes their conflict with CRAN policies related to downloading binary software. See here.
• New package contributors:
  • Diego Rabatone Oliveira
  • Neal Richardson

censobr v0.3.0

• Major changes
  • The questionnaire() function now accepts questionnaires of type: "long" or "short".
  • Updated census tract data following latest update by IBGE on Oct/2023. Closed #38. As a result, the package moved to data release v0.3.0.
• Minor changes
  • Replaced .onAttach by .onLoad so that the package works with censobr::function()
  • Fixed documentation of various functions.
  • Fixed issue to make sure censobr uses suggested packages conditionally on CRAN
  • Fixed message when user requests a data set / file for a year that is not available
• New data set and files included in this version:
  • 2022 census [New]
    • Questionnaires and interview manuals
  • Short questionnaires for every census between 1960 and 2022.
  • Long questionnaire for the 1960 and 2022 censuses.

censobr v0.2.0

• Major changes
  • New function read_tracts() to read Census tract-level aggregate data.
  • New function data_dictionary() opens on a browser the data dictionary of Brazil’s census data.
  • New function questionnaire() opens on a browser the questionnaire used in the data collection of Brazil’s censuses.
  • New function interview_manual() opens on a browser the interview manual of the data collection of Brazil’s censuses.
    • New function set_censobr_cache_dir() that allows users to set custom directory for caching files from the censobr package.
  • New data sets of 1970, 1980 and 1991 censuses: microdata of population and households PLUS Census tract-level aggregate data for 2010. Closes #6, #7, #8 and 1#8
  • New vignette on Census tract-level aggregate data for 2010.
  • New vignette covering functions about census documentation and dictionary of variables. Closes #2.
• Minor changes
  • Running censobr_cache(delete_file = 'all') now removes all data and directories related from censobr.
  • censobr now uses suggested package {geobr} conditionally
• Data included in this version:
  • 1970 census [New]
    • Microdata of population, households
  • 1980 census [New]
    • Microdata of population, households
  • 1991 census [New]
    • Microdata of population, households
  • 2000 Census
    • Microdata of population, households and families.
  • 2010 Census
    • Microdata of population, households, deaths and emigration.
    • Census tract-level aggregate data [New]

censobr v0.1.1

• Minor changes
  • Using cache_dir and data_release as global variables. Closes #13
  • Running censobr_cache(delete_file = 'all')now also remove data from old data releases. Closes #14.
  • Large improvement in code coverage
• Changes requested by CRAN team
  • Changed location of cached data to directory inside tools::R_user_dir(“censobr”, which = “cache”).
  • The package now automatically deletes cached data from previous data releases that might exist from previous versions of the package
  • Clean cache after intro vignette and testhat checks

censobr v0.1.0

• Launch of censobr v0.1.0 on CRAN https://cran.r-project.org/package=censobr
• All data sets are now enriched with geography columns following {geobr} name standards. This should help data manipulation and integration with spatial data from the {geobr} package. The added columns are: c(‘code_muni’, ‘code_state’, ‘abbrev_state’, ‘name_state’, ‘code_region’, ‘name_region’, ‘code_weighting’). Closes #5.
• Data included in this version:
  • 2000 Census
    • Microdata of population, households and families.
  • 2010 Census
    • Microdata of population, households, deaths and emigration.