ChangeLog

Date        Version  Comment
2015-12-09  0.0-1    First version on CRAN
2016-03-04  0.0-2    Minor improvements
2016-12-13  0.1-1    New function to pre-download Census data and other minor improvements
2017-03-03  0.1-2    Updated surname handling, enhanced demographics option, and improved error handling and documentation
2017-04-10  0.1-3    Allows Census data download at level user prefers (block, tract, or county)
2017-05-03  0.1-4    Fixed error in merge_surnames.R and updated relevant documentation
2017-06-08  0.1-5    Updated http to https to access U.S. Census API
2017-08-16  0.1-6    Removed extraneous documentation, renamed 2010 Surname List object, and added place as geography
2017-08-31  0.1-7    Added testthat functionality
2019-02-12  0.1-8    Updated to be compatible with U.S. Census API updates
2019-02-20  0.1-9    Fixed census_helper.R so that state field can be lower case in user data
2020-10-08  0.1-10   Fixed minor warning message
2020-04-22  0.1-11   Minor fix requested by CRAN
2020-05-17  0.1-12   Some Census API improvements (thanks to Silvia Kim)
2022-06-17  1.0.0    Updates to BISG, inclusion of fBISG and other package improvements
2022-10-04  1.0.1    Bug fixes for census url and census year
2023-06-12  2.0.0    Updated defaults to 2020 data, specifiy as next major version 2.0.
2024-02-15  3.0.0    Adding back age and sex functionality. Other improvements.
2024-02-27  3.0.1    Github has changed their policy on binary formats in releases, need to refer to older version
2024-04-02  3.0.2    Fixes a bug that led to overestimation of black and hispanic populations (see issue #145)
2024-05-24  3.0.3    Fixes a bug that pushed NaN into small population tracts (see issue #151)
2024-06-07  3.0.4    Fixes a bug related to a list of variables not being unnested properly (issue #151, #153)