NEWS
fcall 0.1.6 (2025-12-10)
Bug Fix
Sometime around 2025-12-08, the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) added a layer to it's website to "Verify you are a human" before hitting the page where the data can be downloaded via hyperlinks. This caused the download_data() function (which relies on utils::download.file()) to fail, including in CRAN checks/builds.
To remediate this issue, Ketchbrook Analytics has replicated the files on the FCA website (from 2000-present) in a public AWS S3 bucket. download_data() now retrieves files from the public AWS S3 bucket instead of the FCA website directly.
fcall 0.1.5 (2025-11-19)
Addresses CRAN comments regarding:
- Extra "Description: " text in Description field of
DESCRIPTION
- Quoted "FCA" abbreviation in
DESCRIPTION
Additional Changes
- Bug fix for downloading data from years before 2015
- Adds new test for
compare_metadata()
- Removes embedded files in unit tests (now downloads data on-the-fly)
- Improves naming conventions in
compare_metadata() output
- Uses latest files in testing/examples
fcall 0.1.4
Addresses CRAN comments regarding:
- Use of unquoted "FCA" abbreviation in
DESCRIPTION
- Potential bad hyperlinks in README
- Database Users section was moved to a {pkgdown} Article to avoid any further issues
- Improper use of hyperlink markdown
< > characters in download_data() roxygen comments
fcall 0.1.3
- Initial release attempt on CRAN
- Removes use of
get() in get_codes_dict(), removing need to call library(fcall) before calling get_codes_dict()
- Requires R 4.1 or newer (due to base pipe)
- Updates year in
LICENSE
- Removes internal database-related functions
fcall 0.1.2
User-Facing Improvements
- Additional context included in the error message users see when 2024 files are passed to
process_data()
download_data() has a new (logical) quiet argument that controls console messaging during download process
Database-Related
- Removed warnings in
append_data()
- Fixed bug in
add_user_read_access()
Other
- Added
R CMD check GitHub Action for automated package checks
- {fs} has been removed from
Imports
fcall 0.1.1
Technical
- Fixed encoding issues
- Require R version 3.5.0 or newer
Documentation
- Added "Database" vignette
- Extracted README sections into vignettes/articles
fcall 0.1.0