Changelog • zippeR

zippeR (development version)

Added zi_census_api_key(), a zi_-prefixed wrapper around tidycensus::census_api_key(), so Census API key setup no longer requires calling a function from another package. Referenced from zi_get_demographics() and zi_aggregate() documentation and the README (#108)

CRAN release: 2026-06-02

UDS Mapper crosswalk data (2009–2022) is now bundled with the package, eliminating the runtime network dependency on an external GitHub repository
Full support for 2024 TIGRIS year: zi_list_zctas() and zi_get_geometry() now support 2024 for all request types, including state- and county-scoped requests (previously these aborted pending a rebuild of internal lookup data, tracked in #104, now resolved). 2010-2023 continue to work as before (regression-tested)
Deprecated parameter aliases input_zip and dict in zi_crosswalk() with backwards-compatible support until early 2027
@examplesIf guards replace \donttest{}/\dontrun{} wrappers in all network-dependent and API-key-dependent examples
Minimum R version set to 4.1

zi_get_demographics() and zi_aggregate() now accept year values through 2024 for survey values "acs1" and "acs5" (previously capped at 2022), bringing them in line with zi_get_geometry()’s full 2024 support
Resolved several input validation gaps across zi_aggregate(), zi_crosswalk(), zi_convert(), zi_get_geometry(), zi_get_demographics(), zi_load_crosswalk(), zi_load_labels(), zi_load_labels_list(), zi_prep_hud(), zi_repair(), and zi_validate()
Fixed a number of incorrect column references, variable scoping errors, and unsafe dispatch patterns identified during a code quality audit
Replaced live Census API calls in tests with local fixtures so R CMD check passes on CRAN without a Census API key
Normalized non-standard column names in the 2015 UDS crosswalk

Dropped purrr, spatstat.univar, stringr, httr, readr, and tidyr from Imports
Added httr2 (>= 1.0.0) to Imports

CRAN release: 2025-04-25

CRAN release: 2025-02-25

Updates to README.md and NEWS.md to reflect the fact that the package is now on CRAN
Resolve R CMD check issue where examples in zi_crosswalk and zi_load_crosswalk fail on CI because a HUD key is not available to them
Fail informatively if tigris is not working due to U.S. Census Bureau servers being unavailable. At this time TigerWeb is not used as a backup due to the limited availability of ZCTA data

CRAN release: 2024-07-14

Initial CRAN submission version that contains functionality for working with UDS and HUD ZIP Code crosswalk files as well as Census Bureau ZCTA geometries and demographic data