.build_suggestions() previously flagged a recipe only when the WHOLE category result had zero rows in a requested year, so a multi-code category where one recipe component was genuinely gapped never fired if any sibling code (same recipe or not) had data that year. Each recipe's own in-category component is now checked individually -- a component fires when it has no rows in a requested (in-scope) year the recipe's own generic join otherwise covers, even when the overall category result looks complete. Decomposes .build_suggestions() into .category_recipe_components/ .recipe_meta/.component_presence/.recipe_coverage/.recipe_component_gapped helpers, drops the now-unused `result` param, and rewrites the header comment to describe the new, deliberately wider scope plus the per-government `covered` guard that still filters recipes with no data at all (ordinary reporting variance vs. a real format-boundary gap). Tests pin the multi-code case the coarse check missed (Cleburne County FY2012: G05 gapped, G04 covers, masked because E04/E05 have data) next to the still-guarded no-recipe-coverage case (F04/F05 both absent), and update the Broward 2019-2020 case to its new, correct expectation (fires for corrections_combined/corrections_other_capital_combined, still silent for corrections_capital_combined) plus a fresh true-full-coverage negative case (Maricopa County).
uscogdata
Curated R reader for the Civilytics US Census of Governments finance corpus.
Provides unit-level financial profiles, geographic rollups, and peer comparisons with auditable provenance and built-in cross-vintage correctness. Reads the published corpus (Hive-partitioned parquet + manifest.json) directly from Nextcloud via DuckDB httpfs — no local bulk downloads required.
Status
Under active development (Phase 2 of the cog_pipeline project). See
../cog_pipeline/docs/reader-specification.md for the reader contract this
package implements.
Installation
# pak::pkg_install("gitea.civilytics.org/Civilytics/uscogdata")
Configuration
USCOGDATA_URL— corpus root URL (public Nextcloud share, trailing slash)USCOGDATA_CACHE_DIR— optional override for the manifest cache directoryUSCOGDATA_MANIFEST_TTL_SECS— optional manifest re-fetch TTL (default 3600)
Developer notes
Testing
The package ships a bundled fixture corpus at inst/extdata/fixture_corpus/ —
a 3.6 MB two-year slice (2019 + 2020) of the full corpus covering all 50
states. tests/testthat/setup.R automatically points USCOGDATA_URL at this
fixture, so the full test suite runs offline with no network dependency:
devtools::test() # uses bundled fixture, no credentials required
Releasing against the live corpus
Before cutting a release, run the test suite against the published corpus to catch any drift between the fixture and the real data:
Sys.setenv(USCOGDATA_URL = "<published-corpus-url-with-trailing-slash>")
devtools::test()
When the live-corpus run is clean, strip the fixture from the built package by
adding this line to .Rbuildignore:
^inst/extdata/fixture_corpus$
The test suite is URL-agnostic — setup.R falls back to USCOGDATA_URL when
the bundled fixture is absent, so no test code changes are needed for the
release run or after stripping the fixture.