New features

  • Added dep_set_api_key() for easier Census API key management — checks for an explicit key, then the CENSUS_API_KEY env var, and prompts interactively if neither is found
  • Added a “Getting Started” vignette covering all supported indices, sample data workflows, and spatial output

Dependency changes

  • Removed stringr, english, tibble, and tidyselect from Imports, reducing hard dependencies from 14 to 10
  • Bumped minimum R version to 4.4

Improvements

  • Error messages now use cli formatting (tidyverse-style) instead of base stop()/warning()/message()
  • Internal code quality improvements: extracted shared helpers, reduced nesting, and removed code duplication across SVI/NDI processing
  • Expanded test suite with 350+ new assertions covering all exported functions and core internals

Bug fixes

  • Fixed territory (e.g., Puerto Rico) FIPS code validation in dep_get_index() — was incorrectly comparing abbreviations instead of FIPS codes
  • Fixed pkgdown site build failure caused by docs/ directory conflict
  • Initial CRAN submission.