NEWS

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epidatatools 2.1.0

• get_bls() now explains missing values, such as October 2025 during the 2025 lapse in appropriations, in a warning of class bls_missing_values that gives BLS's footnote. Turn it off with options(epidatatools.warn_missing = FALSE) (#13).
• With get_bls(metadata = TRUE), value in each series' nested data is now numeric (it was text, with "-" for missing values), and a new footnotes column gives BLS's footnotes.
• get_bls() errors and messages no longer show your BLS API key, which BLS includes in its daily-limit message.

epidatatools 2.0.0

Breaking changes

• find_bls() now searches a weekly catalog of every BLS series (8.3 million series from 33 programs), built by bls-index, instead of scraping the BLS Data Finder (#29).
  • The first search downloads the catalog (about 33 MB) into a cache, and later searches check for a newer one at most once a week. refresh = TRUE checks now.
  • Searching needs the arrow package, which find_bls() offers to install.

Deprecations

• dl_ipums_micro(), dl_ipums_acs1(), dl_ipums_asec() and dl_ipums_cps() are renamed get_ipums_micro(), get_ipums_acs1(), get_ipums_asec() and get_ipums_cps(), to match the package's other data functions (#30). The old names still work, but are deprecated: calling one directly warns, and they will be removed in a future release.
• interpolated_quantile(), interpolated_median() and binipolate() are deprecated. Use averaged_quantile() and averaged_median() instead.

Improvements

• get_bls() now returns data even when BLS fails to return series catalog metadata, which used to make the whole request fail. Affected series get an NA series_title, and a bls_catalog_unavailable warning lists them (#23).

epidatatools 1.0.5

• Fix bug in get_bls() that duplicated rows when the BLS API call retrieves sublists of footnotes.

epidatatools 1.0.4

• Fix date_frequency bug in get_bls() causing failures on 20+year API requests.

epidatatools 1.0.3

• Fix bug with multiple same table IDs used in get_bea_nipa()

epidatatools 1.0.2

• Fix get_bls() errors when catalog data is unavailable

epidatatools 1.0.1

• Improve BEA API retrieval performance

epidatatools 1.0.0

• Better error handling for BEA APIs
• correct bug in get_bls() producing duplicate output

epidatatools 0.9.0

• New BEA API helper: get_bea_regional()
• Allow different API key names for BLS, FRED, and BEA fetchers.

epidatatools 0.8.0

• New BEA API helper: get_bea_nipa()
• search FRED and BLS series with find_fred() and find_bls()

epidatatools 0.7.1

• force get_bls() to produce numeric values

epidatatools 0.7.0

• added get_bls() and get_fred() for retrieval from BLS and FRED APIs

epidatatools 0.6.1

• corrected error in dl_ipums_asec() resulting in no downloaded data

epidatatools 0.6.0

• added passthrough options ... to IPUMS microdata extract download helpers dl_ipums_acs1(), dl_ipums_asec(), dl_ipums_cps()

epidatatools 0.5.0

• added averaged quantile functions: averaged_quantile(), averaged_median()

epidatatools 0.4.0

• added interpolated binned quantile functions: binipolate(), interpolated_quantile(), interpolated_median()
• added IPUMS microdata extract download helpers: dl_ipums_micro(), dl_ipums_acs1(), dl_ipums_asec(), dl_ipums_cps()

epidatatools 0.3.0

• initial pre-release release