blscrapeR 1.0.2

blscrapeR 1.0.2

Bug Fixes

• Updated URLs for the get_bls_state() function.

Tets

• Updated tests for the get_bls_state() function.

1.0.1

blscrapeR 1.0.1

Major Release

• The BLS changed the location of their county level employment data on the server side. Changes were made in the get_bls_county() function that were not backwards compatible.

New Features

• Added the qcew_api() function to gather data from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. This API is owned by the QCEW and is seperate from the main BLS API.
• Added 404 error handling to the main bls_api() function.

Data

• Added three data sets; niacs, size_titles, and area_titles. These data sets act as helpers for the QCEW API and provide industry and area codes that the API regularly uses.

Bug Fixes

• Updated URLs for the get_bls_county() function.

Documentation

• Added documentation for the qcew_api() function.
• Added documentation for the three new data sets; niacs, size_titles, and area_titles.
• Added a vignette for the qcew_api() function.

Tets

• Added a test for the qcew_api() function.

blscrapeR 0.42

blscrapeR 0.4.2

New Features

• Added stateName argument to get_bls_county() that allows user to specify a state or list of states.
• Added stateName argument to map_bls_county() that allows user to specify state(s) to map.

Documentation

• Added mapping vignette.
• Added manual pages for the county_map_data and state_map_data internal data sets.

Data

• Added tigris and broom packages to prep_maps.R in data-raw folder.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed date argument in get_bls_county() and get_bls_state() to return the most recent date if argument is NULL.
• Added error handling to map_bls_state() and map_bls_county().
• Added tests for map_bls_state() and map_bls_county() to the /testthat directory.

v0.4.1

blscrapeR 0.4.1

New Features

• Added quick functions to pull popular data sets from the API without the need of the user inputing a series id.
• Addded data argument to get_bls_county. If NULL the function will return the most recent month.
• Added the inflaction_adjust() function to help users with calculating inflation from the CPI. Since the API will only allow twenty years of data, the inflation function pulls data from a text file instead that allows the user to get CPI data back to 1947.
• Added more error handling to bls_api() function.

Documentation

• Added documentation to get_bls_county() to explain the new date argument.
• Added package vignetts.