Changes in version 0.3.0.9000                      

Search

  - Table titles returned by statcan_find() and statcan_search() now
    display HTML/XML characters normally (for example, R&D instead of
    R&D).
  - Existing catalogue caches are corrected automatically when they are
    read.

                 Changes in version 0.3.0 (2026-07-17)                  

Compatibility

  - Existing calls to statcan_search(), statcan_data(), and
    statcan_download_data() remain supported.
  - statcan_data() and statcan_download_data() now accept either a
    hyphenated table number such as "27-10-0014-01" or an eight-digit
    Product ID such as "27100014".
  - statcan_download_data() gains an optional path argument. Its
    original two-argument form continues to save a CSV file in the
    working directory.

Data access

  - Complete tables are now located through Statistics Canada's official
    getFullTableDownloadCSV Web Data Service method.
  - English and French downloads use one shared implementation and the
    same stable processing rules.
  - Fixed statcan_download_data() returning before its CSV file was
    written.
  - Fixed French downloads overwriting the first data column instead of
    naming it REF_DATE.
  - Only files created by the active download are removed. Earlier
    versions attempted to delete the entire R session temporary
    directory.
  - Network, HTTP, API, ZIP, and input failures now produce informative
    errors.
  - Reference periods are parsed consistently and COORDINATE remains a
    character column.

Search

  - Added statcan_find(), which interprets an English or French
    description of a subject, Canadian geography, and date range and
    returns ranked table candidates with an explanation of each match.
  - Geography constraints are checked against official WDS table
    metadata. This metadata is cached for seven days, with graceful
    fallback when it cannot be refreshed.
  - statcan_search() retrieves the official table catalogue from
    Statistics Canada's Web Data Service instead of shipping a static
    data file.
  - The catalogue is cached as an RDS file for 24 hours in the
    platform-specific user cache directory. A valid stale cache is used
    when WDS is temporarily unavailable.
  - Searches are case-insensitive, require all supplied keywords, and
    return an empty table when there are no matches.
  - Corrupt or incompatible catalogue caches are ignored and rebuilt.

Package and documentation

  - Thierry Warin is the sole author and maintainer of this release.
  - Removed unused package dependencies and the obsolete bundled
    catalogue.
  - Moved tests into the standard tests/testthat structure and expanded
    unit coverage for Product IDs, dates, languages, catalogue
    responses, and search.
  - Rebuilt the README, vignette, reference documentation, citation
    metadata, and pkgdown website.
  - Added current GitHub Actions workflows for multi-platform R CMD
    check and automatic pkgdown deployment.

                 Changes in version 0.2.6 (2023-08-17)                  

  - Fixed a server issue.

                 Changes in version 0.2.5 (2023-08-10)                  

  - Removed top-level network access so the package can be installed
    offline.

                 Changes in version 0.2.4 (2023-03-03)                  

  - Added statcan_search() to identify tables available from Statistics
    Canada.

                 Changes in version 0.2.3 (2021-12-14)                  

  - Added an informative message when a table is unavailable.

                        Changes in version 0.2.2                        

  - Used readr::read_csv() for metadata tables.

                 Changes in version 0.2.1 (2021-03-03)                  

  - Renamed the public functions to remove the previous sqs wording.