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Source: NEWS.md

CDCPLACES 1.1.8

  • Add the newest release year (2024), updating the API’s base URL.
  • Added two new arguments: cat to query a specific category of measures and age_adjust to return only the age adjusted rates if set to TRUE.

CDCPLACES 1.1.7

CRAN release: 2024-08-26

  • Removed other unnecessary dependencies to improve performance.
  • Fixes a bug from 1.1.6 related to overlapping counties when querying census tracts/counties.

CDCPLACES 1.1.6

CRAN release: 2024-07-28

  • 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.

CDCPLACES 1.1.5

CRAN release: 2024-03-14

  • 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.

CDCPLACES 1.1.4

CRAN release: 2024-01-24

  • 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.

CDCPLACES 1.1.1

CRAN release: 2023-12-20

  • Initial version of CDCPLACES published to CRAN December 23, 2023.
  • Included base functions ‘get_vars’ and ‘get_places’.