stats19 3.4.0 2025-10

• Major updates to deal with new file names and column names in updated files hosted by the Department for Transport (#268)
• Refactored download logic to no longer use .zip files, which are no longer served by the DfT. The package now downloads .csv files directly.
• Switched from download.file() to curl::curl_download() for more robust downloads (#258).
• Improved documentation around setting a permanent download directory using the STATS19_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY environment variable (#211).
• Promoted essential packages for data download and formatting (dplyr, lubridate, jsonlite) from Suggests to Imports.
• Replaced reshape2 with tidyr for data manipulation (#276).
• Added support for downloading the last 5 years of data using year = "5 years" (#261).
• The get_stats19_adjustments() function now returns a message explaining that adjustments are included in the main casualty dataset, as the separate adjustments file is no longer provided by the DfT (#266).
• Added a new vignette that reproduces the DfT’s pedestrian factsheet (#240, #277).

stats19 3.3.1 2025-01

• Downloads now work when you are on networks with firewalls (#255)

stats19 3.3.0 2025-01

• Support for 2023 data (#251)
• Another round of updates to the schema files thanks to updates from the DfT

stats19 3.2.0 2024-10

• Updates so package functions fail gracefully when input data is not as expected, e.g. due to URL changes (#252)

stats19 3.1.0 2024-07

• stats19 now relies on the stats19_variables object to format the different tables columns (#245) (credit @layik), fixing an issue in which ages were removed from the casualties table, fixing (#235)
• If year is less than 2018 the package auto-downloads the full dataset (#239)

stats19 3.0.3 2024-02

• Update documentation to account for the shift in table names, replacing accidents with collisions and casualty with casualties (#232)

stats19 3.0.2 2023-11

• Fix issue with coordinates as characters (#228)

stats19 3.0.1 2023-10

• Minor update to increase default timeout in get_stats19() to 10 minutes (#226)

stats19 3.0.0 2023-10

• Major update so the package works with the new csv files (up to 2022)
• Deprecation of read_accidents in favour of read_collisions and using consistent collision instead of accidents.
• Other minor improvements

stats19 2.0.1 2022-11

• Changes spatstat.core related code (#217)

stats19 2.0.0 2020-10

• Major changes to the datasets provided by the DfT have led to major changes to the package. See (#212) for details.
• To reduce code complexity the package no longer supports reading in multiple years
• This puts the onus on the user of the package to understand the input data, rather than relying on clever coding to join everything together. Note: you can easily join different years, e.g. with the command purrr::map_dfr().

stats19 1.5.0 2021-10

• Support new https download links (#208)
• Package tests now pass when wifi is turned off
• URLs have been fixed

stats19 1.4.3 2021-07-21

• Use 1st edition of readr on Windows to prevent errors on reading data (#205)

stats19 1.4.2 2021-07

• Fix CRAN checks associated with access to online resources (#204)
• Fix issues associated with get_ULEZ() and get_MOT() functions

stats19 1.4.1

• New function get_ULEZ() to get data on vehicles from a number plate (thanks to Ivo Wengraf)
• Added a test to prevent rare failures in get_stats19() when data_dir points to the working directory

stats19 1.4.0

• Add get_stats19_adjustments() function
• Use GH Actions for CI (#177)
• Fixed a problem with get_stats19() and multiple years that could be linked with the same data file (#168)
• Fix issues with vignettes for CRAN (#190)

stats19 1.3.0

• Support for 2019 data (#171)

stats19 1.2.0

• Tests now pass on the development version of R (4.0.0)
• The package now has a hex sticker! See https://github.com/ropensci/stats19/issues/132 for discussion
• The output of formatted crash datasets gains a new column, datetime that is a properly formatted date-time (POSIXct) object in the correct timezone (Europe/London) (#146)
• Enables the download of multiple years as per https://github.com/ropensci/stats19/issues/99, thanks to Layik Hama
• Users can now set the default data download directory with STATS19_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY=/path/to/data in your .Renviron file: https://github.com/ropensci/stats19/issues/141
• get_stats19() gains a new argument output_format() that enables results to be returned as an sf object or a ppp object for use the the spatstat package thanks to work by Andrea Gilardi https://github.com/ropensci/stats19/pull/136

stats19 1.1.0

• Now enables the download of 2018 data
• Various bug fixes, see https://github.com/ropensci/stats19/issues
• Update website link: https://docs.ropensci.org/stats19/
• New work-in-progress vignette on vehicles data: https://docs.ropensci.org/stats19/articles/stats19-vehicles.html

stats19 1.0.0

• Major change to dl_stats19(): it is now much easier to download STATS19 data. By default ask = FALSE in get_stats19() and dl_stats19().

stats19 0.2.1

• Fixed issue with column labels not being there - see #82

stats19 0.2.0

• get_stats19() gains an ask argument (TRUE by default, set as FALSE to make road crash data access even more automated!)
• The date column now is of the correct class after formatting POSIXct. See #86
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.