.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 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'.
Investigating "gov search doesn't work" (#3) turned up two separate things.
THE REPORTED SYMPTOM IS ALREADY FIXED.
#3 reported `cog_gov_search("Orange")` dying in jsonlite with
`lexical error: invalid char in json text. <html> <head>`. That was fixed the
same day the issue was filed, by 8743472 "fix(manifest): actionable errors when
USCOGDATA_URL is unset or returns non-JSON" (issue filed 2026-05-27 11:30;
commit 2026-05-27). The issue was simply never closed. Verified now: injecting
an HTML manifest.json raises a typed `uscogdata_invalid_manifest` condition
naming the likely causes, with the raw parse error demoted to a footnote, and
`cog_gov_search("Orange")` returns 62 rows against the live corpus.
THE ROOT CAUSE OF THAT HTML WAS STILL LIVE -- and is what this commit fixes.
Every consumer builds locations by CONCATENATION:
manifest.R:95 paste0(url, "manifest.json")
mirror.R:48,125 paste0(url, e$path)
views.R the parquet glob
and mirror.R:104 documents the invariant outright ('url ends in "/"'). The
error messages tell users to set `"<url-or-local-path>/"`. But `.resolve_url()`
was a bare `.cfg("url")` passthrough -- the invariant was assumed everywhere and
enforced nowhere.
So a URL entered without the slash failed silently and misleadingly:
HTTPS -> ".../downloadmanifest.json"; the host answers with an HTML 404 page,
which lands in the JSON parser as EXACTLY the #3 symptom -- and the
guard then blames "login page / 404 / wrong share" when the real
cause was one missing character.
local -> ".../corpusdata/long/**/*.parquet" and a DuckDB "No files found".
Reproduced both: pointing USCOGDATA_URL at the bundled fixture without a
trailing slash gave
No files found that match ".../fixture_corpusdata/long/**/*.parquet"
Normalizing once at resolution fixes every consumer at the same time, rather
than having each call site re-derive the invariant. An empty setting passes
through untouched so manifest.R's "not configured" guard still fires instead of
the value degrading into a bare "/" filesystem root.
RED->GREEN: 4 tests added, 2 failed first (append-missing-slash, local-path
normalization); the already-correct cases (slash present, empty setting) passed
throughout and pin them against regression. Same fixture path that produced the
DuckDB error above now returns 62 rows.
Suite: FAIL 0 | WARN 0 | SKIP 0 | PASS 471 (was 463; +8 = the new tests).
jared