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fcall 0.1.6

Bug Fix

Sometime around 2025-12-08, the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) added a layer to it’s website to “Verify you are a human” before hitting the page where the data can be downloaded via hyperlinks. This caused the download_data() function (which relies on utils::download.file()) to fail, including in CRAN checks/builds.

To remediate this issue, Ketchbrook Analytics has replicated the files on the FCA website (from 2000-present) in a public AWS S3 bucket. download_data() now retrieves files from the public AWS S3 bucket instead of the FCA website directly.

fcall 0.1.5

Addresses CRAN comments regarding:

• Extra “Description:” text in Description field of DESCRIPTION
• Quoted “FCA” abbreviation in DESCRIPTION

Additional Changes

• Bug fix for downloading data from years before 2015
• Adds new test for compare_metadata()
• Removes embedded files in unit tests (now downloads data on-the-fly)
• Improves naming conventions in compare_metadata() output
• Uses latest files in testing/examples

fcall 0.1.4

Addresses CRAN comments regarding:

• Use of unquoted “FCA” abbreviation in DESCRIPTION
• Potential bad hyperlinks in README
  • Database Users section was moved to a {pkgdown} Article to avoid any further issues
• Improper use of hyperlink markdown < > characters in download_data() roxygen comments

fcall 0.1.3

• Initial release attempt on CRAN
• Removes use of get() in get_codes_dict(), removing need to call library(fcall) before calling get_codes_dict()
• Requires R 4.1 or newer (due to base pipe)
• Updates year in LICENSE
• Removes internal database-related functions

fcall 0.1.2

User-Facing Improvements

• Additional context included in the error message users see when 2024 files are passed to process_data()
• download_data() has a new (logical) quiet argument that controls console messaging during download process

Database-Related

• Removed warnings in append_data()
• Fixed bug in add_user_read_access()

Other

• Added R CMD check GitHub Action for automated package checks
• {fs} has been removed from Imports

fcall 0.1.1

Technical

• Fixed encoding issues
• Require R version 3.5.0 or newer

Documentation

• Added “Database” vignette
• Extracted README sections into vignettes/articles

fcall 0.1.0

• Initial release

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