.Rbuildignore excluded ^vignettes$, ^doc$ and ^Meta$, so an installed
uscogdata had no vignettes at all -- while the README instructed users to
run vignette("total-spending"), which failed for every one of them.
Both build offline: total-spending points USCOGDATA_URL at the bundled
fixture, population-denominators is eval = FALSE. Confirmed present in the
built tarball as both source and rendered inst/doc/.
The test also pins the fixture as never-excluded -- it is what lets
R CMD check run with no credentials on r-universe and GitHub Actions.
LICENSE held only the two-line stub and no LICENSE.md existed, so the
repo carried no license text for a human browsing it or for GitHub's
license detector.
usethis::use_mit_license() writes LICENSE.md but leaves an existing
LICENSE alone, so the stub kept saying 'Civilytics' while the full text
said 'Civilytics Consulting LLC'. Corrected by hand, with a test pinning
the two together.
Authors@R was an org with no human, so citation() and the r-universe
maintainer page had nothing to render and ORCID could not collate this
with merTools. The given-name vector c("Jared", "E.") matches merTools
exactly; person("Jared", "E. Knowles") would render the same but put the
middle initial in the family-name slot.
MaxCorpusSchema claimed 5 while .validate_schema() accepts 4-7 and the
published corpus is 7 -- metadata contradicting code by two versions.
0.3.0 rather than 0.2.0: remote reads go from broken to working and the
default URL from placeholder to live, which is user-visible behaviour.
The remote-read defect survived because every test path used a local
corpus, and so did the API in production. This is the only test that runs
the package the way a new user does: no USCOGDATA_URL, no option, no
fixture -- just install and call a verb.
Gated on USCOGDATA_LIVE_TEST so offline CI skips rather than fails.
Measured against the live corpus while writing this: cog_spending for one
government is 3.9s for a single year and 5.9s across 2000-2022. Well above
the 1.5-2.8s raw parquet scan, because the verbs also join crosswalks,
resolve categories and assemble provenance.
The default was a REPLACE_WITH_SHARE_TOKEN sentinel and no document in
the package supplied a working URL, so a new user installing uscogdata
had no path to a session at all -- just an actionable-looking error with
nothing actionable behind it.
The default is now the public HuggingFace mirror: CC-BY-4.0, no
credential, CDN-backed, and it keeps the origin's uplink out of the read
path. USCOGDATA_URL and options(uscogdata.url=) still override, so
Nextcloud and cog_mirror() copies are unaffected.
The sentinel guard stays for half-edited configs; the two tests covering
it set the URL explicitly, so they only needed renaming to stop calling
it 'the default'.
DuckDB cannot expand a glob over generic HTTP -- there is no directory
listing, and allow_asterisks_in_http_paths only forwards the literal
'**/*' as a filename, which 404s. So every remote corpus read failed.
Only local paths worked, which is how the API (a host mount) and the test
fixture run, so nothing ever caught it.
Measured against the published corpus: the explicit list returns the same
46,148,034 rows the hf:// glob does, with hive_partitioning still
recovering year from the paths. Building it from the manifest keeps the
reader host-agnostic rather than binding it to one vendor's protocol.
Also extracts .render_view_sql(). Four test sites had hand-rolled the
{url} substitution -- one commented as doing it 'exactly as
.register_views() does' -- and all four broke on the second token. They
now share the one function that knows the vocabulary, and a new test
renders every SQL file to prove no token survives.
cog-api's paginate() sliced an already-fully-materialized result: every
page of a deep sweep re-ran the whole cog_spending()/cog_revenue() query
and re-listified every row, just to keep up to 1000 and discard the
rest. A 193,105-row/194-page fleet-wide sweep (cog_explorer's Southern
guide, corpus summary build) repeated that full cost 194 times and
wedged the production server for hours on 2026-08-06 -- single request,
CPU-bound, single-threaded plumber process, no other request could get
through, not even /health.
cog_spending()/cog_revenue() gain optional limit/offset, pushed into
.build_verb_sql() as SQL LIMIT/OFFSET behind the existing (already
deterministic) ORDER BY. The full unpaginated row count rides along via
COUNT(*) OVER() in the same scan -- exposed as a total_rows attribute --
so a caller walking pages never needs a second round trip to ask how
many there are. A page now costs O(limit), not O(full result).
Mutually exclusive with complete = TRUE (which fills a grid over the
FULL requested (year, category) space -- pagination over a partial slice
of already-grouped rows has no defined meaning for the cells it would
fill) and with recipe (whose result comes from a separate, not-yet-wired
query path). Both abort with a clear classed condition rather than
silently ignoring the parameter.
limit/offset default to NULL; every existing call site is unaffected.
.build_suggestions()'s recipe-candidate sub-select was keyed on
`WHERE category IN (<category>)`. The reserved pseudo-category
"All Categories" is never itself a row in summary_categories.category, so
in all-categories mode `candidates` always came back empty and coverage
signposting (uscogdata#9) was structurally impossible for the one mode
whose entire premise is "you cannot sum the wrong scope" -- measured on
Los Angeles County FY2011: category = "Public Welfare" reports 2
suggestions (incl. $271,589,000 excluded E68), category = "All Categories"
reported 0, silently losing that same signal.
Apply the branch's own design principle: the concept boundary is subtype,
not category. .build_suggestions() now accepts all_categories/subtype_col/
subtype_scope (all optional, default off, so no other caller's behaviour
changes) and, when all-categories mode is active, scopes the candidate
sub-select by `<subtype_col> IN (<subtype_scope>)` instead -- symmetric
with .build_verb_sql()'s own WHERE predicate. The M/L recipe exclusion and
the is.null(category) early return are unchanged.
After the fix, LA County FY2011 "All Categories" reports 5 suggestions,
including welfare_cash_e68_wide for the exact $271,589,000 gap.
Adds two covering tests to test-all-categories.R using the bundled fixture
(AL state gov, FY2011, "Corrections"): one end-to-end (per-category and
all-categories both signpost the same recipe) and one direct on
.build_suggestions() proving the subtype-vs-category branch is what
changes the query. Updates the 0.2.0 NEWS entry.
- .detect_direct_suppressed() keys on (year, canonical_govid, category);
all-categories mode collapses category to one literal value, so the key
collides and the detector silently reports FALSE instead of "unknown".
Report NA there instead, and stop isTRUE() in .build_provenance() from
collapsing that NA back to FALSE. Schema widened to allow null.
- Refuse complete = TRUE + category = "All Categories": the completion grid
has no per-category cells left to fill once categories are collapsed,
so the prior silent 0-rows-filled result was never actually checked.
- cog_balances(category = "All Categories") returned zero rows with no
error. .validate_verb_inputs() gains allow_all_categories (default
FALSE); .verb_spendrev() passes TRUE, cog_balances() does not, so the
three verbs share one place to reject it instead of drifting again.
- Fix the false `subtype = "operations"` argument claim (no such argument
exists) in NEWS.md and an internal spending.R comment.
Adds three covering tests to test-all-categories.R for the three
behaviour changes above.
Closes uscogdata#36. It counts governments with rows for the requested
category, so a surveyed government that genuinely spends nothing there
is indistinguishable from one never surveyed. In FY2022, a complete
census year, Georgia reports 393 of 567 cities for Police -- the gap is
cities that contract to the sheriff.
Documents the comparison that IS valid: same category, census year vs
sample year.
Geographic totals are the expensive case cog-api#37 was filed about --
without this a caller issues one rollup per category and sums them.
The pass-through was expected to work by construction; this asserts it
rather than assuming it, including under per_capita and inflation
adjustment.
A reserved value nobody can discover is a trap, and this is the view
the API's /categories endpoint is built from. Emitted for the two flow
vocabularies only -- cog_balances() returns a stock and has no concept
to sum within.
Also fix test-categories.R to exclude pseudo-category rows from
crosswalk-specific assertions (one row per (category, subtype) pair,
non-empty item_codes, valid subtypes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Returns one summed row per (year, govid, subtype) across every
category in the requested concept's subtype scope, so a caller never
sums categories client-side and cannot sum the wrong scope.
Combining it with other category names is an error rather than a
silent partial sum.
The concept boundary in this package is subtype, not category, so a
total is the existing query with the category dimension collapsed and
no category predicate applied. subtype is deliberately kept in the
grouping: subtype=operations plus all-categories is 'operating
expenditure', which is the measure a fiscal comparison wants.
Named 'All Categories' rather than 'Total' because category='Total'
would sit one argument from expenditure_concept='total' and mean
something different.
Scoped re-review measured .needs_suppression_query() against the fixture
and found it doesn't pay for itself: it skips the round trip on ~3% of
healthy candidate-bearing calls, ~0% of the multi-govid batch shape
(cog_geographic_rollup()/cog_peer_compare()) it was meant to help, and
reaching the gate costs an unconditional metadata query that on its own
roughly cancels the expected saving -- net slower on the fixture. The
gate was also correct (0 unsound skips) but left an untested exactness
invariant (result$codes_included and the anti-join sharing the harmonized
item_code space) whose silent violation would kill signposting, which is
the exact failure class uscogdata#9 exists to prevent.
Owner's call: revert it and keep the code simple. A batch-aware
optimization, if warranted, is a separate issue.
Removes .needs_suppression_query() entirely (function, roxygen, call
site, comp_rows/flow_components), restoring .build_suggestions() to call
.suppressed_components() directly -- unchanged from f77adb6 except that
it still threads flow_prefixes through (I1, kept). Also removes the two
tests that existed solely to exercise the gate (the five-branch synthetic
test and the local_mocked_bindings call-counter test); no test asserting
real signposting behavior was touched.
I1 (flow_prefixes filter), I2 (schema wording + ig_recipe_id required),
I3(a) (restated NOT EXISTS literals for partition pruning), and M4
(reworded scope claims) are all untouched by this revert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Final whole-branch review fix wave for the partial-coverage signposting
feature:
- I1: .suppressed_components() now filters measured recipe components to
the calling verb's own flow_prefixes. Without this, a candidate recipe
from the OTHER flow family was always absent from the verb's own view by
construction and so was always reported as "suppressed" -- fabricating a
dollar claim across flow families (cog_revenue(category = "Corrections")
claimed $3.63B excluded that cog_spending() actually reports in full).
- I2: reworded provenance-v1.json's trigger/suppressed_amount descriptions
to describe what the code actually measures (the verb's underlying long
view, not "the result"), and to note suppressed_amount can be negative.
Added ig_recipe_id to the suggestions items' required list, matching the
key's always-set/nullable runtime behavior.
- I3(a): restated the year/govid literals inside .suppressed_components()'s
NOT EXISTS subquery so DuckDB can partition-prune that side too (verified
via EXPLAIN: Scanning Files 1/4 instead of an unfiltered full scan;
all.equal(old, new) results confirmed unchanged).
- I3(b): added .needs_suppression_query(), a free, exact pre-check reusing
the verb's own already-computed result$codes_included to skip the anti-
join round trip on the common fully-covered path, without weakening the
"suppression can fire with zero gap years" guarantee.
- M4: corrected the overbroad "confines every fire to 2011" scope claim in
R/suggestions.R and NEWS.md -- the suppressed-dollar measurement is now
flow-scoped (post-I1), but the empty_year trigger itself is not, and can
still fire in modern years for a mis-scoped cross-flow-family category.
Added a regression test for I1 plus direct unit-test coverage for the new
flow-family filter and the I3(b) pre-check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
.inform_suggestions() and cog_explain() now render suppressed_amount /
suppressed_years / suppressed_codes as a continuation line on each
suggestion bullet whenever suppressed_amount > 0 (an empty_year fire can
carry them too, so this keys off the amount, not trigger). Also renames
the cli header from "Coverage gap detected" to "Incomplete coverage" --
a partial-coverage fire is not a gap, the year has rows, they're just
short.
The merged schema-v7 fix (b59b79b) widened .validate_schema()'s allow-list but
left this test asserting that 7 is REJECTED, so main went red. CI had been
hanging on the apt step before ever reaching the suite, which is why the
failure only surfaced once the HTTPS fix let the job get that far.
Flips 7L from expect_error to expect_silent, and ADDS an 8L rejection case.
That second part is the point: simply deleting the 7L expectation would have
left the test unable to prove any upper bound is enforced at all, so a future
v8 corpus with a genuinely breaking change would pass validation silently. The
test should assert the boundary moved, not that it disappeared.
Suite: 796 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 WARN, 0 SKIP.
The balance work added category_type = "balance" rows to the corpus and
cog_balances() to read them, but left cog_categories() -- the discovery
surface -- unable to describe them:
- subtype COALESCEd only spend_subtype and revenue_subtype, so every balance
row came back with subtype = NA
- type rejected "balance", so there was no way to ask for the holdings
taxonomy at all
Both matter downstream: cog-api derives its subtype vocabulary from
cog_categories(), so an NA subtype becomes an unusable API parameter. Found
while implementing cog-api#26.
Note cog_balances() itself still takes no subtype argument -- for holdings
category is a strict coarsening of balance_subtype -- but the value belongs
in the discovery surface regardless.
Tests read the expected subtype set independently from the crosswalk parquet
rather than from the function under test.
Findings F-1..F-8. Every assertion below was verified to FAIL before its
fix (or under mutation, where the behaviour already worked) and pass after.
F-3: 'an unknown recipe id is rejected' used a bare expect_error(). Deleting
.validate_recipe_id() leaves .recipe_components() returning 0 rows and
comps$label[[1]] throwing 'subscript out of bounds' -- still an error, so
the test passed on the regression while the user lost the curated message.
Now asserts class = 'uscogdata_unknown_recipe'. Mutation-checked.
F-4: no test ever set per_capita and adjust_to_year together, so the
load-bearing ordering comment at R/balances.R was unverified. Reversing
those two calls silently drops amt_per_capita_real (.attach_real_dollars()
no-ops when amt_per_capita_nominal does not exist yet). New test asserts
presence AND that the per-capita column is deflated by the same factor as
the level column; mutation-checked by reversing the order (2 failures).
F-5: the spec's 'Gating' requirement had no test -- nothing ever called
cog_balances() on a corpus without balance_subtype. Extended the existing
with_corpus_missing_balance_subtype() block to assert class =
'uscogdata_no_balance_support'; mutation-checked by dropping the guard.
F-1/F-2: added mutual-exclusivity and four-argument validation tests, each
pinned to the message or class (all four inputs already produced *some*
error or *some* quiet wrong answer, so bare expect_error() was useless
here). Plus an ordering guard: a data-frame govid must still work, which
is what fails if validation is put before .coerce_govid_input().
F-6: asserts on the RENDERED cog_explain() text (both streams -- cli
routes through conditions that land on stderr), with a negative case
proving money-verb output is unaffected and that the capture is not vacuous.
F-7: pins that coverage_window is corpus-scoped while truncated is
query-scoped; mutation-checked by scoping the windows to observed subtypes.
F-8: pins the memo slot is populated on first call and cleared by
cog_close().
Adds the NEWS entry, a Financial data pkgdown reference section (none
existed for cog_spending/cog_revenue), and corrects CLAUDE.md's SQL-layer
claim, view count, test count and fixture-year description against
measured values. Also documents balance_caveats in
inst/schemas/provenance-v1.json (test-first: added a schema-documentation
test to test-balances.R, confirmed it failed, then fixed the schema) and
fleshes out cog_balances()'s @return roxygen to enumerate its conditional
columns, regenerating man/cog_balances.Rd.
Mirrors R/spending.R:465-466 -- .check_govids_in_scope()'s return was
previously captured only for its message side effect. Also drops a
redundant duplicate assertion in the flow-code guard test.
The bundled fixture has no balance item_code with is_aggregate = TRUE, so
asserting COUNT(*) FROM balance_long WHERE is_aggregate = 0 passed whether
or not the view's AND NOT is_aggregate predicate existed. Follows the
synthetic hive-partitioned parquet pattern already used for the 22-/23-
and 24-/25- view predicates in test-views.R: reads the real
inst/sql/26-balance_long.sql text off disk and executes it against a
synthetic corpus containing both an aggregate and non-aggregate row under
a real balance item_code (W01).
Closes the last blocked test in the suite. Owner ruled both halves of the
open question yes on 2026-07-30.
`cog_revenue()` gains `revenue_concept`, mirroring `expenditure_concept`,
with Census's two published concepts defined as crosswalk
`revenue_subtype` sets rather than item-code prefixes:
general = own_source + federal + state + local_aid (the default)
total = general + utility + liquor_store + insurance_trust
The manual defines the first by subtracting the other three from the
second (4.3), so both are computable only once all four families are
named -- which cog_pipeline#79 does. Insurance trust now includes the
employee-retirement X codes (X01/X02/X05/X08) alongside the Y codes.
- inst/sql: revenue_long / revenue_long_harmonized carry EVERY revenue
subtype; the concept narrows in R via the existing subtype_scope
machinery, exactly as expenditure_concept narrows spending_long.
- cog_explain() now prints each verb's OWN concept. It previously
printed `expenditure_concept` unconditionally, so a cog_revenue()
caller was told "Concept: primary" -- a spending concept their result
has nothing to do with.
- Fixture regenerated at pipeline_commit aadb46b (330 crosswalk rows).
Corrected two stale expectations in the blocked test while un-skipping
it. It asserted X01+X04+X05+X08 and omitted X02, which applies to state
governments and is nonzero for Wisconsin; X04 is an exhibit code for an
INTRAgovernmental transfer that Census's own "Total Emp Ret Rev"
excludes. Verified against that Census field: the right set is
X01+X02+X05+X08 = $2,283,883k, exactly. And its expected `total` of
$33,377,093k predated the Y codes being classified -- complete Total
Revenue for WI FY2012 is $34,881,961k (general 31,338,293 + Y 1,259,785
+ X 2,283,883).
Behaviour change worth knowing: `general` is now STRICT Census General
Revenue, so utility and liquor store revenue leave the default. Measured
on the fixture that is 15.9% of what cog_revenue() returned for cities,
vs 1.2% for states and 1.7% for counties.
Suite: 716 pass / 0 fail / 0 skip -- the first time this package has had
no skipped tests.
Closes#12
Rewrites expenditure/revenue classification off item-code first-letter
prefixes and onto summary_categories membership (F-018: prefix Y spans
revenue, expenditure, and balance codes), and exposes
expenditure_concept = c("primary", "direct", "total") with primary as
the new default:
primary = operations + capital + assistance
direct = primary + interest + insurance_benefits (Census Direct)
total = direct + intergovernmental (M/L/Q via ig views)
- inst/sql: flow views (20-25) select by crosswalk membership;
summary_categories moves to 11- so it registers before them (DuckDB
binds view sources eagerly). The IG leg gains Q11/Q12/Q18 state
school-system payments (F-017).
- R: one subtype scope per verb call drives the verb SQL, the
harmonization exclusion count, and the complete = TRUE grid;
flow_prefixes survives only to scope recipe suggestions.
cog_geographic_rollup/cog_peer_compare accept primary|direct, still
refuse total, and now actually pass the concept through.
- Balance codes can never reach a spending or revenue result
(uscogdata#25), asserted at both view and verb level.
- Deletes the #11 skip; per the 2026-07-30 owner ruling the F-018 Y01
proof is asserted against the crosswalk, not the default
cog_revenue() call (which stays General Revenue pending #12).
Suite: 696 pass / 0 fail / 1 skip (#12, expected).
Closes#11
Tracks the corpus published 2026-07-30, which adds category_type = 'balance'
(pipeline#76) and the I/Q/Y flow codes (pipeline#78) -- the crosswalk
prerequisite for #11's three-concept expenditure model.
Fixture crosswalk goes 291 -> 324 rows and gains balance_subtype. Only three
files change (series_breaks, summary_categories, manifest); no long partition
moves, because the published change was metadata-only.
test-categories.R's vocabulary assertions extended for the new values:
category_type gains 'balance', spending subtypes gain 'interest' and
'insurance_benefits', revenue subtypes gain 'insurance_trust'.
cog_categories() is a catalogue verb so it surfaces every category_type the
corpus carries; the stock/flow guard belongs on the money verbs.
Suite: 0 failures, 2 skips (the #11 and #12 blocks).
The Census of Governments is a complete census only in years ending in 2 and
7. Every other year is a sample, and the sample varies enormously. Neither
cog_geographic_rollup() nor cog_peer_compare()/cog_find_peers() had any
concept of "the universe": each summed or labelled whichever govids happened
to have rows and returned that with nothing distinguishing "every government
reported" from "a fifth of them did".
On the bundled fixture, Wisconsin's 608-city universe rolls up 597
governments in FY2012 and 112 in FY2019. The peer side is worse exposure, not
better: a Madison-scale cohort looks stable because Madison is large, while
governments matched to a small target sit in exactly the population band the
sample cycle hits hardest. Chilton's 15-peer cohort reports 15 of 15 in
FY2012 and 3 of 15 in FY2019.
Implements the owner's settled design: coverage = c("all", "census",
"consistent") on all three verbs, defaulting to "all" so nothing currently
calling them changes, PLUS always-on provenance$coverage carrying per-year
n_units_reporting / n_units_expected / is_census_year and
provenance$coverage_mode. cog_explain() prints a "Reporting coverage"
section. The default mode can no longer mislead silently, which is the point
-- using these verbs correctly must not require knowing the survey calendar.
Decisions worth stating:
- n_units_expected is the universe the CALLER named, not the national one.
That is what makes the ratio mean something: "597 of the 608 Wisconsin
cities you asked about". For peers it is the cohort size, counted over
peer rows only -- including the target would inflate every count by one
and make a cohort that has entirely stopped reporting look non-empty.
- The coverage table is built from the REQUESTED years, not the years
present in the result, so a year in which nothing reported still appears
with n_units_reporting = 0. A year that vanishes silently is precisely
the disclosure failure at issue.
- "census" filters years BEFORE the query, and aborts when the range holds
no census year rather than returning an empty result for a query the
caller believes they made.
- "consistent" exempts the peer-comparison target: it is the subject of the
comparison, not a member of the cohort being balanced, and dropping it
would leave nothing to compare. The summary_* quantiles are computed
AFTER the filter so they describe the cohort actually returned.
- is_census_year is documented as a statement about the survey CALENDAR,
never a claim of completeness -- FY1967 is a census year in which only 97
of Wisconsin's 608 cities report (DoD 3). n_units_reporting is the number
that tells the truth.
On cog_find_peers(), where there is no year range, coverage governs the
cohort VINTAGE: "census" snaps to the most recent census year with an
observed population, so a cohort is not built from a sample year in which
most of the candidate universe is absent. "consistent" is a comparison-time
concept and selects like "all" there, carried on the result for
cog_peer_compare().
One fix to the committed test, which was internally inconsistent. It pinned
n_units_reporting == 597 for FY2012 AND asserted that number equals a raw
cross-check that answers 595. Both numbers are right for different questions:
VERNON VILLAGE and WAUKESHA VILLAGE carry type = 3 in `long` (their
as-of-year identity, as townships) while the xwalk lists them as govs_type =
2 (their present identity, as villages) -- schema v6 made the long table's
geography present-harmonized but `type` still reads as-of-year. The rollup
counts against the requested govid set, so 597 answers "how many of the
governments I asked about reported". The cross-check now scopes to that same
universe instead of to long.type/long.fips_state; it still reads raw parquet
rather than going through the verb under test.
Suite: 670 pass / 0 fail / 2 skip (was 658/0/3). rcmdcheck clean.
The two remaining skips are #11 and #12.
Sparsification (cog_pipeline#64, SB194) stopped the corpus storing the wide
era's explicit zeros, which made absence ambiguous:
<= FY2011 dense_source absent => Census published $0
>= FY2012 sparse_source absent => not reported, unknown
A wide-era query whose cells were all $0 had begun returning nothing at all,
with no way to get them back -- strictly less than the reader exposed before,
which is why #64 filed this follow-on.
complete = TRUE fills the requested grid from `code_set` and stamps every row
with value_source: "reported", "census_zero" (amt 0), or "not_reported"
(amt NA). The NA is the point. Filling a modern absence with 0 would invent
data, which is exactly the error the representation contract exists to
prevent -- and it makes this strictly MORE informative than the
pre-sparsification corpus, which could not tell a published zero from an
unreported cell either.
Measured on the fixture, Broward County: FY2011 returns 28 reported + 16
census_zero; FY2019 returns 30 reported + 14 not_reported. The five
categories that walkthrough finding F-006 read as "retired at FY2012" now
report themselves correctly as census_zero before and not_reported after.
Scoping decisions, each of which would invent rows if taken loosely:
- The grid is per government TYPE (code_set.type). Filling against the
union of all types would give a county cells like "state IG transfer to
school districts", indistinguishable from real census zeros.
- NOT is_aggregate, mirroring spending_long/revenue_long. Without it the
grid offers cells those views never return, so each would fill as a
phantom $0.
- Filling happens BEFORE per_capita and inflation, so a census_zero stays
0 through both and a not_reported stays NA rather than becoming 0.
Two new views (36-representation, 37-code_set) are gated on the manifest
LISTING those tables, not on schema_version. Sparsification did not bump the
version -- the fixture this package shipped against until 2026-07-30 was
already v6 and carried neither table -- so a version gate would register a
view over a missing file and fail at CREATE VIEW time on exactly the corpora
the check exists to tolerate. with_corpus_missing_representation() models
that corpus and asserts the abort.
Refused where the fill would be guesswork, both classed
uscogdata_complete_unsupported: a recipe defines its own component codes and
never touches summary_categories; the intergovernmental leg deliberately
keeps aggregate rows (inst/sql/24-ig_long.sql) so its cells are not the ones
code_set describes.
Expected cell sets in the tests are computed from the corpus parquet
directly, never through the verb -- verifying what a filter does through
that same filter proves nothing.
Closes DoD 2, 3 and 4 of #18. DoD 5 (the cog-api follow-on) is filed
separately.
Suite: 658 pass / 0 fail / 3 skip (was 629/0/3). rcmdcheck clean.
CI failed on the previous commit. testthat::test_local() from a checkout was
green, but rcmdcheck was not: under R CMD check the suite runs against the
INSTALLED package, where README.md, vignettes/ and man/ do not exist. Both
newly-activated tests read them through test_path("..", "..", ...) and died
on `cannot open the connection`.
The defect was latent in the committed tests, not introduced here -- they
shipped skip()ped, so CI had never executed either one. Removing the skips
is what exposed it, which is the mechanism working as intended.
Guarded with skip_if_no_source_tree(), so they skip in the installed-package
context that structurally cannot satisfy them. They are NOT thereby unchecked
in CI: the workflow runs testthat::test_local() from the checkout as its own
step before rcmdcheck, and there the paths resolve and the assertions run.
Deliberately not split: test-peer-summary-scope.R's numeric pin needs only
the corpus and would survive check on its own, but it exists to protect the
sentence above it. Separating them would let the prose drift while the pin
kept passing.
Verified locally: test_local 629 pass / 0 fail / 3 skip; rcmdcheck
0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 notes.
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.
.build_series_break_refs() matches `fin_code IN (<codes in the result>)`.
No row's item_code is ever the literal "ALL", so the four corpus-wide
entries could never match and reached no user:
SB085 1977 dollar precision across the 1976/1977 boundary
SB087 2002 imputation exclusion FY2002-2006
SB194 2012 dense -> sparse representation change
SB086 2017 government id scheme change
SB194 is why this matters now. cog_pipeline#64 DoD 4 was "series_breaks.csv
carries an ALL @ 2012 entry describing the representation change, SO
cog_explain() surfaces it". The entry shipped; the reader dropped it. A
query spanning FY2011 -> FY2012 crosses the boundary where an absent cell
stops meaning "Census published $0" and starts meaning "not reported", and
nothing said so.
Provenance gains `corpus_break_refs`, built by .build_corpus_break_refs()
on the break_year window alone -- which codes a result happens to contain
is irrelevant to a caveat about the corpus. A separate field rather than
more entries in series_break_refs, because an ALL caveat qualifies the
whole result and folding the two together invites reading it as a caveat
about one series; .build_series_break_refs() now excludes 'ALL' explicitly
so the two stay disjoint by construction. cog_explain() prints them under
their own "Corpus-wide caveats" heading, and cog-api passes provenance
through verbatim, so the field reaches the API with no change there.
On the year rule: all four entries are BOUNDARY caveats -- their own
join_advice speaks of crossing 1976/1977, of FY2002-2006, of absence not
being comparable across FY2012, of pre- vs post-2017 ids -- so the same
`break_year BETWEEN min(years) AND max(years)` rule the code-specific path
uses is the right one, and matches the issue's DoD 1. The issue's DoD 3
also asks that a FY2011 query surface SB085; that cannot hold under DoD 1
and does not hold under any reading of SB085's text, whose boundary is
1976/1977. Tested with a range that actually spans it, and flagged on the
issue.
Stacked on fix/regen-fixture-corpus-18: SB194 does not exist in main's
bundled fixture, which predates the break being catalogued.
Suite: 606 pass / 0 fail / 6 skip (was 594/0/6).
cog-api 357 / 0 / 8, unchanged.
The fixture predated three shipped corpus changes at once: no J rows in
summary_categories (it was built before the crosswalk completion), no
representation.parquet or code_set.parquet, and a still-dense wide era.
Every test in this package and in cog-api runs against it, so both suites
were green against a corpus that no longer exists. This is #18's stated
prerequisite; it proves nothing about production until it lands.
Regenerated from the publish tree at pipeline_commit 83f9715 (schema v6,
built 2026-07-29). FY2011 goes from 2,864,212 rows to 496,004 -- 82.7% of
the old partition was explicit zeros -- and the fixture now ships all ten
publish-tree metadata tables rather than six. The generator's file list is
a single constant now, so the copy step and the manifest step cannot drift.
Three test repairs, each a real consequence of sparsification rather than
a number to bump:
test-categories.R "assistance" joined the spending subtype
vocabulary with the J-prefix codes.
test-spending.R The harmonization block counts rows that
exist. Broward's E21/F21/G21 were zero-pads
and are gone, so the anchor moves to FL state,
whose three NA-mapped rows carry $2.83B --
the amount accounting was previously asserted
only against 0 and could not have caught a
bug. Broward keeps a test of its own, now
asserting the zero-pads are absent.
test-expenditure-concept.R Coverage-gap suggestions are presence-based.
AL state's only FY2011 B47 cell was an
explicit zero, so ig_federal_b47_wide stopped
being a candidate there; FL state carries a
real amount, so the counterpart guard is
exercised against a suggestion that fires.
test-fixture-vintage.R pins the structural facts that separate this vintage
from its predecessor -- the ten metadata tables, the dense/sparse
representation contract, zero explicit zeros in FY2011, code_set coverage,
and J19's category. Checked against the old fixture: FY2011 carried
2,368,208 explicit zeros, so the assertion discriminates rather than
merely passing.
Suites: uscogdata 594 pass / 0 fail / 6 skip (was 576/0/6).
cog-api 357 pass / 0 fail / 8 skip against the regenerated fixture,
unchanged from its baseline.
Six skipped tests, one per issue opened from the Madison walkthrough audit
(docs/walkthroughs/FINDINGS.md in cog_explorer). Each asserts the desired
behaviour, so it fails today and goes green when the fix lands; each is
guarded by a single skip() naming its issue and finding IDs, so the suite
stays green and activating a test is a one-line deletion.
test-expenditure-concepts.R #11 F-012, F-017, F-018
test-revenue-concept-insurance-trust.R #12 F-014
test-coverage-disclosure.R #13 F-020, F-023
test-peer-summary-scope.R #14 F-021
test-amount-units-documented.R #15 F-004
test-gov-search-literal-match.R #16 F-025
helper-walkthrough-raw.R reads the corpus's long parquet partitions directly,
bypassing uscogdata's SQL views. Every expected amount comes from there rather
than from the verb under test - verifying an absence through the filter that
creates it proves nothing, which was the most common defect in the audit itself.
Verified: with the skips removed all six fail (or error) against the bundled
fixture; with them in place the full suite is 576 pass / 0 fail / 6 skip.
.detect_direct_suppressed() equated "no Direct sibling row" with "Direct
was suppressed", but the dominant real cause is a government with
genuinely no direct spending in that category (e.g. a state funding K-12
entirely through school districts) -- correct, ordinary data, not
suppression. Measured: 32 of 50 states false-flagged on a clean FY2019
category = NULL total query, and all 141 flagged rows across 50 states x
{2011, 2019} fell back to "no covering recipe found" instead of naming one
-- including AL Corrections, which names corrections_combined correctly
when category is supplied explicitly.
Both the flag and its row note are now gated on a harmonization recipe
actually covering that exact (year, canonical_govid, category) triple, via
a new .covering_recipes() helper that runs the same generic recipe join
per-row regardless of whether the caller supplied a category filter.
.notes_column() takes the precomputed note vector directly instead of
searching a category-gated suggestions list; .direct_suppressed_note() is
removed (its "no recipe found" fallback no longer applies -- if no recipe
covers a triple, it isn't suppression).
Also recomputes two total-spending.Rmd figures the prior wave never
actually reconciled with its own "measured against the fixture" caption:
State IG/Direct (flat 17.2%, now 16.7%-48.4% varying by year) and City L/M
(flat 188.3%, now 144%-189% varying by year).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
.print_provenance() printed "Basis:" but nothing about Direct vs Total
-- the most consequential switch this branch adds to cog_spending() was
invisible in the package's designated "what am I looking at" verb. Add
a "Concept: direct|total (<note>)" line next to Basis, and surface a
cli warning when provenance$expenditure_concept_direct_suppressed is
TRUE (see the C1 fix), so the suppressed-Direct case is visible in the
human-readable explain output, not just in the structured provenance.
Adds regression coverage for the three preceding fixes:
- "total" on a legacy aggregate-only family (AL Corrections 2011) now
fires recipe suggestions, flags provenance$expenditure_concept_direct_
suppressed, and names a recovering recipe in the affected row's notes,
plus a contrast test confirming the flag stays FALSE when the Direct
leg is present.
- expenditure_concept = "total" aborts with class
uscogdata_ig_categories_unsupported against a corpus whose
summary_categories carries no M/L rows (new
with_corpus_missing_ig_categories() fixture helper), is unaffected for
"direct" on the same corpus, and still works on a corpus that does
carry M/L rows.
- an M/L recipe (corrections_ig_local_combined) no longer appears as a
raw suggestion for a Direct-flavored cog_spending() call.
C1: spending_long/spending_long_harmonized filter NOT is_aggregate but
ig_long deliberately doesn't (legacy IG lives on aggregate rows), so a
legacy aggregate-only family (e.g. Corrections pre-2012) can survive on
the IG leg while Direct is suppressed. expenditure_concept = "total"
then UNIONs an IG-only figure that reads as a plausible Total, and the
coverage-gap suggestion machinery -- fed the UNION'd result -- saw the
surviving IG row as coverage and stayed silent.
(a) .build_suggestions() is now fed a Direct-leg-only view of the
result (IG rows filtered out before the gap-years computation),
so the recipe hints fire for "total" exactly as they do for
"direct".
(b) Any row where IG has dollars but Direct has none for the same
(year, canonical_govid, category) is now flagged: the row's
`notes` name the recovering recipe (drawn from the Direct-leg
suggestions), and provenance gains an explicit
`expenditure_concept_direct_suppressed` boolean plus an appended
warning on `expenditure_concept_note` -- both cheap for a
downstream consumer (cog-api passes provenance through verbatim)
to test, rather than silently asserting Direct + IG when that
arithmetic didn't happen.
Measured before/after on AL state government, Corrections, 2011:
"total" already correctly returns the corpus's actual IG-only figure
($31,358,000, vs. true Direct of $521,651,000 via recipe =
"corrections_combined"), but before this fix it did so with 0
suggestions and an unqualified "Total = Direct + IG" note; after, it
fires 3 recipe hints and both the row notes and provenance say plainly
that Direct is unavailable through this basis.
C2: the 66 M/L summary_categories rows arrived via cog_pipeline PR #59
with no schema_version bump, so schema_version can't gate "total" --
a pre-#59 corpus can report any supported schema_version and still
have zero M/L category rows, in which case ig_annotated's LEFT JOIN
silently produces NA category/spend_subtype (0 rows for a specific
category, or one invisible NA-subtype group for category = NULL). New
.require_ig_categories() checks summary_categories directly and aborts
with class uscogdata_ig_categories_unsupported, naming PR #59 and
directing the user to a newer corpus.
Reconciles tests/testthat/test-views.R's v4-shaped-corpus test (whose
synthetic summary_categories carries only one E36 row) by asserting
the new guard fires against that same connection, rather than leaving
the two silently contradictory.
Local main was stale at fa40266 when this branch was created, so it was
missing 748ca4a. Merging rather than rebasing to preserve the reviewed
commit SHAs recorded in the SDD ledger.
Review found the suffix-set match alone is unsafe: revenue-side recipes
(ig_federal_b47_wide, ig_state_c47_wide, ig_local_d47_wide, and their *_89
siblings) coincidentally share exact suffix sets with M/L expenditure
recipes despite representing a different flow direction. Reachable today via
a mis-scoped cog_spending(category = "IG Federal") call, not just
cog_revenue(). Thread flow_prefixes (same parameter .build_harmonization_block
already uses) through .build_suggestions()/.attach_ig_counterparts() and
require a firing recipe's own prefixes to be both in the calling verb's flow
family and within {E,F,G} before searching the M/L catalog.
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