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healthbR 0.1.1

Changes

• Moved arrow package from Imports to Suggests for better cross-platform compatibility. The package now checks for arrow availability and provides informative error messages with installation instructions when needed.

• Added cache_dir parameter to all data fetching functions (vigitel_data(),

  vigitel_download(), vigitel_variables(), vigitel_dictionary(), vigitel_cache_status(), vigitel_clear_cache()). This allows using tempdir() for temporary storage that doesn’t persist after the R session.

• Updated examples to use cache_dir = tempdir() to avoid leaving files on the system during CRAN checks.

healthbR 0.1.0

healthbR 0.0.0.9000

New features

• vigitel_years() - list available VIGITEL survey years
• vigitel_variables() - list variables available in a specific year
• vigitel_dictionary() - get the data dictionary with variable descriptions
• vigitel_data() - download and load VIGITEL data with multiple options:
  • Support for single or multiple years
  • Automatic caching to avoid repeated downloads
  • Parquet conversion for faster subsequent loads
  • Parallel downloads with furrr
  • Lazy evaluation with Arrow for memory-efficient processing
• vigitel_convert_to_parquet() - convert cached Excel files to Parquet format

Performance

• Parquet format support for 10-20x faster data loading
• Parallel download support via furrr package
• Lazy evaluation via Arrow for processing large datasets without loading into RAM

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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