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CDCPLACES 1.1.8

• Add the newest release year (2024), updating the API’s base URL.
• Added two new arguments: cat to query a specific category of measures and age_adjust to return only the age adjusted rates if set to TRUE.

CDCPLACES 1.1.7

• Removed other unnecessary dependencies to improve performance.
• Fixes a bug from 1.1.6 related to overlapping counties when querying census tracts/counties.

CDCPLACES 1.1.6

• Added functionality to query ZCTA-level data. This is available by setting the ‘geography’ argument to ‘zcta’.
• Added a mechanism to check for overlapping county names. This is useful for querying all levels of data.
• Changed the dependency used to parse JSON data, improving the performance of querying data.

CDCPLACES 1.1.5

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added argument ‘geometry’ to return sf data frame with shapefile for requested geography.
• Added argument ‘county’ to filter query results by county name.
• Argument ‘geo’ has been changed to ‘geography’ for clarity.

CDCPLACES 1.1.4

• Updated version accepted to CRAN January 24, 2024.
• Replaced ‘get_vars’ with ‘get_dictionary’. This new arguement returns a data frame of all variable availability across all years of PLACES data.

CDCPLACES 1.1.1

• Initial version of CDCPLACES published to CRAN December 23, 2023.
• Included base functions ‘get_vars’ and ‘get_places’.

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