NEWS.md

In rscorecard: A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data

v0.26.0

• update dictionary for 25 April 2023 release of data

v0.25.0

• update dictionary for 14 September 2022 release of data

v0.24.0

• update dictionary for 12 September 2022 release of data

v0.23.0

• update dictionary for 2 May 2022 release of data

v0.22.0

• update dictionary for 14 March 2022 release of data

v0.21.0

• update dictionary for 7 February 2022 release of data

v0.20.0

• update dictionary for 20 July 2021 release of data

v0.19.1

Bug fix

• corrected for changes to magrittr 2.0 function evaluation order (last to first) that meant error messages weren't correctly displaying

Updates

• new error messages for missing sc_select() function
• updated error messages
• additional tests for new base R pipe |>

v0.19.0

• update to only allow filtering on variables allowed due to API changes on 4 April 2021

v0.18.0

• update dictionary for 12 January 2021 release of data

v0.17.0

• update dictionary for 2 December 2020 release of data

v0.16.0

• update dictionary for 1 June 2020 release of data

v0.15.0

• update dictionary for 30 March 2020 release of data

v0.14.0

• update dictionary for 12 December 2019 release of data

• users can now request field of study-level data elements

• updates to sc_dict() command:

• can now return tibble with dictionary information using return_df argument
• can turn off printing with print_off argument

• console-printed dictionary:

  • now returns data element source
  • does not return developer-friendly names by default; turn on using print_dev == TRUE argument
  • can return notes from data dictionary (if they exist) by setting print_notes == TRUE

• users can now request JSON version of returned data by using return_json == TRUE in sc_get()

• returned data frame now puts variables in order requested in sc_select()

• some new tests

v0.13.0

• update dictionary for 30 September 2019 release of data

v0.12.0

• update dictionary for 21 May 2019 release of data

v0.11.1

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

v0.11.0

• update dictionary for 30 October 2018 release of data

v0.10.0

• update dictionary for 28 September 2018 release of data

v0.9.0

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

v0.8.0

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

v0.7.1

Changes

• update dictionary for March 2018 release of scorecard data

v0.7.0

Changes

• update dictionary for 19 December 2017 release of scorecard data

v0.6.0

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

v0.5.0

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

v0.4.0

• 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)

v0.3.3

Bug fix

• allow sc_filter() to use subset object vectors

v0.3.2

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

v0.3.1

• 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

v0.2.5

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

v0.2.4

• initial release

rscorecard documentation built on April 29, 2023, 1:13 a.m.