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rscorecard 0.11.1

Bug fix

• correct error in regular expression that converted dev-friendly names back to variable names in sc_get (h/t @nguyentr17)
• moved regular expression conversions to utility_functions::dev_to_var

Updates

• added tests for conversion

rscorecard 0.11.0

• update dictionary for 30 October 2018 release of data

rscorecard 0.10.0

• update dictionary for 28 September 2018 release of data

rscorecard 0.9.0

Potentially breaking changes

• default value for sc_year() is now 'latest' rather than 2013. With continued data updates, this makes more sense than keeping an old year. Existing scripts that relied on the default for data from 2013 will need to be updated.
• also note that the year column will be a character column with latest as the value when the most recent data are choosen. The College Scorecard doesn't clearly note which data are the latest, so I have left the string. When building a panel dataset across multiple years, it will be best to use numeric year values for all years so that the resulting tibbles can be bound together cleanly.

Other changes

• add support for using some tidyselect helper functions when selecting variables with sc_select(): starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), and matches() should now be available.
• update dictionary for 6 September 2018 release of data

rscorecard 0.8.0

Changes

• improved error handling when submitting bad request
• added sc_select_() and sc_filter_(), which allow users to select and filter variables using strings stored in environment variable

rscorecard 0.7.1

Changes

• update dictionary for March 2018 release of scorecard data

rscorecard 0.7.0

Changes

• update dictionary for 19 December 2017 release of scorecard data

rscorecard 0.6.0

Changes

• allow sc_zip() to take zip codes that start with zero (h/t @nateaff), either with string value or by returning leading zeros to numeric values that R drops

rscorecard 0.5.0

Changes

• changed way API call is made (now using httr to make call rather than jsonlite directly) in order to improve parsing on bad lines
• added debug option to sc_get() so that the API URL string could be returned when debugging call
• removed old namespace import/exports no longer being used

rscorecard 0.4.0

• update dictionary for 28 September 2017 release of scorecard data
• update link in introduction vignette
• change contact information
• read data dictionary sheet by name instead of sheet number when making sysdata.rda in ./data-raw/make_dict_hash.R
• correct sc_get() to use floor() instead of ceiling() so that it doesn't make unnecessary API request/pull (h/t @jjchern)

rscorecard 0.3.3

Bug fix

• allow sc_filter() to use subset object vectors

rscorecard 0.3.2

• allow sc_filter() to use vectors stored in objects
• allow sc_filter() to use %in% operator

rscorecard 0.3.1

• update dictionary for 13 January 2017 release of scorecard data
• update sc_dict() to search all columns by default
• update internal hash lookup environment to have less generic name

rscorecard 0.2.5

• fixed sc_dict() bug that wouldn't allow for search by developer friendly names

rscorecard 0.2.4

• initial release

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