The three kodor/fix issues, taken over after a day with no branch, PR or comment on any of them. Batched because each is single-file with a committed acceptance test, and two share documentation surfaces. #16 (F-025) -- cog_gov_search() utility mode interpolated `name` straight into regexp_matches() unescaped, while basket mode in the same file already routed it through .escape_regex() with the comment "so `name` is treated as a literal substring". Two failure modes, both HTTP 200 through the API: a government could not be found by its own complete name when that name contains a metacharacter (FREDONIA (BRISCOE) CITY returned nothing), and a bare "." matched all 608 Wisconsin cities. Malformed pattern text reached the engine as an error, which cog-api surfaced as a 500 -- reachable by typing a real name one character at a time ("Athens-Clarke County (bal"). Utility mode now calls the escaper that already existed. Roxygen updated: utility mode is documented as a literal case-insensitive substring match, and the basket-mode "substring fallback" step no longer describes itself as a regex either. BEHAVIOUR CHANGE worth flagging: anchored exact-match searches stop working, because there is no regex left to anchor. Two existing tests used "^BROWARD COUNTY$" and "^FLORIDA$" as their exact-match idiom; both now search for those characters literally. Updated to the bare names, which still resolve to exactly one row each once scoped by state/type (verified, not assumed). There is no exact-match option in utility mode any more -- noted on the issue, since that is a real if small capability loss. #15 (F-004) -- the raw Census files report thousands of dollars; this package multiplies by 1000 and returns full US dollars. Correct, and already stated in ?cog_spending / ?cog_revenue @return, in provenance, and in cog-api's data-dictionary. Absent from every surface a reader meets FIRST. Added to README.md as its own section and to both vignettes' openings. The dangerous one is cog_explorer/CLAUDE.md, which states the opposite rule ("All raw `amt` values are in $1,000s") without scoping it to the raw column -- a reader applying that to amt_nominal overstates by 1000x and gets a plausible-looking number rather than an obvious error. Fixed there too; that directory has no git remote, so it rides in no PR and is left uncommitted for the owner. #14 (F-021) -- .peer_summary_rows() computes stats::quantile() separately inside each (year, spend_subtype, category) cell, so a summary_p50 row is "the median peer's value in that one category", never "the value of the median peer's total" -- the median peer for Police and for Fire are usually different governments. Summing them across categories misstated a total-spending band by -32.7% to +251.0% across 24 years, with a sign flip at FY2012. The verb is right and its documented use (facet by role AND category) is unaffected, so the fix is @return prose plus a worked snippet showing the correct computation: sum each peer's own categories first, then take the quantile of those per-government totals. This is the R-side counterpart of cog-api#9, fixed on the API surface earlier today; the wording is deliberately consistent across the two. Note the phrase "not additive" has to stay on one roxygen source line -- the test greps the generated Rd, where a line wrap turns it into "not additive" and stops matching. Cost one red run to find. man/ regenerated with roxygen 8.0.0 against a repo built with 7.3.3, so cog_spending.Rd and DESCRIPTION were reverted -- their entire diff was version churn (reindentation, RoxygenNote -> Config/roxygen2/version) with no content change. The two Rd files kept carry only the edits above. Suite: 629 pass / 0 fail / 3 skip (was 606/0/6). The three remaining skips are #11, #12 and #13.
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# Why per-year population matters
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A note on units first, since every figure below is a rate: the numerator is in **full US dollars**. The raw Census files report **thousands of dollars** and the corpus keeps them that way in its own `amt` column, but `cog_spending()` and `cog_revenue()` multiply by 1000 on the way out, so `amt_per_capita_nominal` is already dollars per person. Do not scale it again.
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Per-capita finance numbers divide each year's spending or revenue by a population denominator. The choice of denominator is a research decision, not an implementation detail: a 24-year corpus paired with a single 5-year ACS estimate produces biased per-capita values whose magnitude scales with each government's population change.
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`uscogdata` defaults to the **Census F-33 population value Census itself uses to compute its published per-capita tables.** That value is recorded on every COG row as `population`, with `popyear` indicating the vintage. For a city that grew from 200,000 to 300,000 between 2000 and 2023, this default reproduces the per-capita value Census published. A static ACS denominator would have understated 2000 per-capita by ~33%.
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@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ controls which of these a query answers. This vignette walks through both
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questions with code that actually runs against the package's bundled fixture
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corpus, then explains why the second question refuses `"total"` outright.
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Before any of the numbers below: every amount column here — `amt_nominal`,
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`amt_real`, and their `amt_per_capita_*` counterparts — is in **full US
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dollars**. The raw Census files report **thousands of dollars** and the
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corpus preserves that in its own `amt` column, but the verbs multiply by 1000
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on the way out. So `amt_nominal = 1317000` means $1.317 million, not $1.317
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billion. Do not scale it again.
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```{r}
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library(uscogdata)
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