NEWS.md
Major changes
read_health_facilities() now has a new parameter date, which will allow users to access data for different dates of reference. The plan is to have at least one update of this data set per year. Closes #334.read_urban_area() and read_metro_area() now have a new parameter code_state, which will allow users to filter selected states. Closes #338Bug fix
data.table::rbindlist() to rind data was throwing errors when some observations were of class POLYGONS and others were MULTIPOLYGONS. This has now been replaced with dplyr::bind_rows() at a very small performance penalty. Closes #346.New data
CRAN request
Minor changes
geobr::grid_state_correspondence_table()
New function
read_capitals() to download either a spatial sf object with the location of the municipal seats (sede dos municipios) of state capitals, or a data.frame with the names of codes of state capitals. Closes #243
Minor changes
Bug fixes
sf and data.table that was messing with plot extent. Closes #284.plotly and data.table. Closes #279.cep_to_state() function. Closes #317.lookup_muni() and download_metadata() functions are now more robust to internet connection failures.Major changes
Minor changes
check_connection() functionMinor changes
read_statistical_grid() Closed #289.Minor changes
Bug fixes
Minor changes
check_connection() to fail gracefully. Return message, no error.New data sets/functions
geobr stores downloaded in temporary cache in tempdir(). Closes #225.read_comparable_areas to read historically comparable municipalities, aka Areas minimas comparaveis (AMCs). Closes issue #17macro parameter added to read_health_region() function. Closes issue #219.is_online()to check internet connection with Ipea server. Closes #229read_urban_concentrations. Closes #232read_pop_arrangements. Closes #231Minor changes
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grid_state_correspondence_table
read_municipality when reading a state abbreviation before 1991.Minor changes
New data sets/functions
read_schools to read the schools data - closes issue #190 (added in 2020-10).census_tracts 2017 from the agricultural census - closes issue #171 (added in 2020-11).cep_to_state to determine the state of a given CEP postal code (added in 2021-01).Minor changes
data.table to use rbindlist and improve package speed when downloading data for the whole country. Closes issue #199.New data sets/functions
read_health_region to read the health regions - closes issue #149 (added in 2020-07).intermediate, immediate micro and meso regions, states and municipalities.Minor changes
simplified
zone in the read_census_tract functionread_municipality() function now also takes additional inputs for data sets before 1992. Closes issue #163 (added in 2020-06)st_geometry_type() of data sets to MULTIPOLYGON, when appropriate. Closes issues #41 #151 #135 #172geobr::grid_state_correspondence_table. Closes #187tp fully deprecated and replaced with simplified. No more warning messageNew data sets/functions
read_neighborhood to read neighborhood limits of Brazilian municipalities - closes issue #104 (added in 2020-03).Major changes
showProgress to display progress bar. Defaults to TRUE
tp was deprecated and replaced by argument simplified that needs to be either TRUE or FALSE. This should only affect user who have previously used tp=TRUE, who now should write simplified=FALSE
Minor changes
crs objects. Following sf package update v0.9-0
New data sets/functions
read_metro_area to read official metropolitan areas - closes issue #2 (added in 2019-12).read_municipal_seat to read the spatial coordinates of municipal seats- closes issue #86 (added in 2019-12).lookup_muni to look up municipality codes by their name, or the other way around. closes issue #58 (added in 2019-12)list_geobr to list all the datasets available in geobr - Closes issue #57.Major changes
geobr to read geopackage files, instead of .rds. A structural change that will make it easier to maintain both versions of geobr in R and Python (2020-02)tp as in data ‘type’. This argument defaults to read data sets with ‘simplified’ borders, what makes the package much more efficient for downloading and plotting the data. Closes issue #76 (2020-02)read_statistical_grid and read_census_tract. These two functions do take a really long time to load the data for the whole country and it might crash R due to memory limits, so the user must be more ‘aware’ about her choice (2020-02)Minor changes
New data sets/functions
read_indigenous_land to read official data of indigenous lands of all ethnicities according to stage of demarcation - closes issue #47 (2019-09-04).read_disaster_risk_area to read official data of areas exposed to risks of geodynamic and hydro-meteorological disasters capable of triggering landslides and floods - closes issue #14 (added in 2019-09-24).read_biomes to read official data of polygons of all of all biomes present in Brazilian territory - closes issue #45 (added in 2019-09-24).read_amazon to read official data of Brazil’s Legal Amazon - closes issue #38 (added in 2019-10-07).read_conservation_units to read official data of Environmental Conservation Units - closes issue #59 (added in 2019-10-08).read_urban_area to read official data of urban footprint of Brazilian cities - closes issue #52 (added in 2019-10-17).read_intermediate_region (2017) (added in 2019-11-28)read_immediate_region (2017) (added in 2019-11-28)download_metadata simply the download of df with data set addresses.Minor changes
read_region function to improve speed and remove dplyrdependency (added in 2019-10-22).*_code="all". This fixes the output of vignette and closes issue #42 (2019-08-05)