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Source: NEWS.md

pixieweb 0.1.1.9002

New features

  • get_variables() gains cache and cache_location arguments, matching the interface of get_tables() and get_data(). Variable metadata can now be cached to the shared SQLite backend via an nxt_handle from nordstatExtras, or to the legacy .rds directory. Previously, callers that passed these arguments (reasonably assuming parity with the other get_* functions) received a silent error via consumer-side tryCatch wrapping.

Documentation

  • get_tables(query = ...) documentation now covers wildcard behaviour. On v2 APIs the server-side search is an exact token match by default; "befolk" will not find "befolkning". Use explicit wildcards ("befolk*", "*arbets*") for prefix or substring matching.

pixieweb 0.1.1.9001

Bug fixes

  • get_tables() now paginates transparently on v2 APIs. Previously, the v2 code path sent a single request with pageSize = max_results (default 100). For SCB, which holds tens of thousands of tables, users had to discover the undocumented workaround of setting max_results = 100000L to avoid silently capped results. The new implementation loops over pageNumber in 1000-row chunks, stopping when the API reports totalPages reached, when max_results is satisfied, when a short page is returned, or at a 50000-row safety cap for the rare “no filter, no max_results” full-listing case. max_results = NULL (the default) now means “all matching tables”, consistent with rKolada::get_kpi() and rTrafa::get_products(). A user query for “befolkning” on SCB that previously returned 100 tables now returns all 205 in roughly 1 second.

  • get_tables(query = ...) now URL-encodes the query parameter. Previously, get_tables_v2 built the request URL with a plain paste() call, unlike the v1 code path which correctly used utils::URLencode(). As a result, any search term containing non-ASCII characters (å/ä/ö, accented letters, spaces, punctuation) silently returned zero tables even when matching tables existed. For SCB searches this meant almost all Swedish queries failed. Verified against the SCB API: query = "arbetslöshet" now correctly returns tables such as TAB203 Arbetslösa 16-64 år (AKU).

pixieweb 0.1.1

New features

  • data_legend() gains lang, omit_varname and omit_desc arguments, mirroring the same API in the sibling package rTrafa. lang (default "EN", settable via getOption("pixieweb.lang", "EN")) toggles the source prefix between "Source: …, table X" and "Källa: …, tabell X". omit_varname drops the raw variable codes from the variable list; omit_desc shows only the codes.
  • data_legend()’s var_df argument is now optional. When omitted, the caption contains only the source line derived from the px_source attribute attached by get_data().
  • Optional SQLite-backed caching via nordstatExtras. get_data(), get_tables(), and table_enrich() now accept cache = TRUE with a .sqlite cache_location for shared, multi-process cache backed by the nordstatExtras package. Cell-level deduplication for data; per-table incremental enrichment with resume-on-crash and async = TRUE support for table_enrich(). Falls back to the existing .rds cache when nordstatExtras is not installed.

Documentation

  • Vignette data is now pre-cached on disk via data-raw/vignette-data.R and R/sysdata.rda, mirroring the approach used in rKolada and rTrafa. Vignettes render offline and show real API output for tables, variables, prepared queries, codelists and plots.
  • Introduction vignette rewritten: the Kolada-comparison table in the “data model” section is replaced with a dedicated, pedagogical explanation of the PX-Web data cube (API → table → variables → content codes → codelists → data), following the same structure as the rKolada and rTrafa introduction vignettes.
  • Vignette plots now convert Tid to Date before plotting and use scale_x_date(date_breaks = "1 year", date_labels = "%Y"), so axis breaks land on whole years rather than on decimal years like 2020, 2022.5, 2025. This pattern is explained inline and is consistent with the sibling packages rKolada and rTrafa.
  • README and all vignettes now cross-link to the sibling packages rKolada and rTrafa, and list install.packages("pixieweb") as the primary install path.
  • README now includes a section on enhanced caching with nordstatExtras.

pixieweb 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-03-26

Initial CRAN release.

Documentation

  • Improved quickstart vignette: explains ContentsCode, elimination, _text columns, and adds inline ggplot comments.
  • Improved introduction vignette: navigation help, clearer elimination explanation, “Advanced features” marker, and motivation for codelists/wide output/query composition/saved queries.
  • Improved multi-api vignette: honest framing of cross-country challenges, guidance on finding comparable tables, actionable tips, and cross-references.
  • Fixed Unicode ≤ in prepare_query() documentation that caused LaTeX PDF manual errors.

Features