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jaredandClaude Opus 5 77074621d8 revert: drop the I3(b) suppression pre-check gate (#9)
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>
2026-08-05 07:59:19 -04:00

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# R/suggestions.R
# Recipe-component-driven signposting. When a basis = "harmonized" query for
# a category comes back incomplete in some requested year -- and a
# harmonization recipe would actually fill it for this government -- surface
# that recipe as a suggestion. "Incomplete" has two forms, and a recipe
# qualifies on either:
# 1. empty_year -- the result has no rows at all in that year.
# 2. suppressed_component -- the result HAS rows, but a component code
# carries dollars the verb's own long view structurally excludes
# (aggregate-published, or absent from summary_categories). This is
# uscogdata#9: Public Welfare kept returning E74/E79 rows while dropping
# aggregate-only E67/E68, so form 1 never fired and the caller got a
# number a third too low with no signpost at all.
#
# This is deliberately keyed off the recipe catalog's component codes, not
# off harmonization_map rows: no live map row carries a non-blank
# suggested_recipe_id (the corpus's wide era exposes split families like
# corrections functions 04+05 ONLY as aggregate rows, which basis =
# "harmonized" excludes by construction -- there's no NA ruling to hang a
# suggestion off of, just a leaf-code absence a recipe happens to fill).
# See docs/phase_r_harmonization_review.md § 0.3.
#
# Scope is deliberately narrow: signposting only runs when the caller
# supplied a `category` (an un-scoped, all-categories query has no single
# coverage question to answer) and only flags a recipe when the ACTUAL
# result has zero rows in a requested year AND the candidate recipe's own
# generic join (same join .run_recipe() uses, including its wide-era
# aggregate rows) produces at least one row for this government in that
# year. Checking presence per-government (not corpus-wide) avoids false
# positives from ordinary reporting variance -- most governments don't use
# every sibling code in a multi-code category every year, and that is not
# a format-boundary gap worth signposting.
#
# C1(a): for expenditure_concept = "total" callers, `result` here must
# already be the Direct-leg subset (the caller filters out
# spend_subtype == "intergovernmental" rows before calling in). A gap year
# is "the requested year has no Direct rows", never "no rows at all" --
# an IG row surviving on a legacy aggregate that Direct excludes must not
# read as coverage and cancel the very suggestion that would recover it.
#' Build the `prov$suggestions` list for a (non-recipe) basis = "harmonized"
#' verb call: recipes whose generic join would fill a real gap in `result`.
#'
#' @param con Active DuckDB connection.
#' @param govid Character vector of canonical_govid values (the verb's raw
#' `govid`).
#' @param years Integer vector of requested years.
#' @param category `category` argument as passed to the verb (character
#' vector or `NULL`; suggestions are only computed when non-NULL).
#' @param result The verb's already-computed result tibble (post basis
#' query, pre per_capita/adjust_to_year), pre-filtered to the Direct leg
#' only when the caller's `expenditure_concept = "total"` (see C1(a)).
#' @param basis The *resolved* basis (`"harmonized"` or `"raw"`).
#' @param flow_prefixes The calling verb's own flow-type prefixes (e.g.
#' `c("E", "F", "G")` for `cog_spending()`, `c("T", "A", "U", "B", "C",
#' "D")` for `cog_revenue()` -- see `.verb_spendrev()`). Passed through to
#' `.attach_ig_counterparts()` to keep the intergovernmental-counterpart
#' lookup scoped to the calling verb's own flow family.
#' @param long_view Name of the verb's own long view (from
#' `.select_long_view()`), passed through to `.suppressed_components()` to
#' measure the second qualifying path (uscogdata#9).
#' @return List of `list(recipe_id, label, available_years, hint,
#' ig_recipe_id, trigger, suppressed_amount, suppressed_years,
#' suppressed_codes)`, possibly empty.
#' @noRd
.build_suggestions <- function(con, govid, years, category, result, basis,
flow_prefixes, long_view) {
if (!identical(basis, "harmonized") || is.null(category)) return(list())
# Exclude any recipe that is ITSELF an intergovernmental (M/L) recipe --
# i.e. every one of its own component codes is M/L-prefixed. Without this,
# a category whose summary_categories rows span both a Direct family
# (e.g. E04/E05, "Corrections") and its M/L counterpart (M04/M05, same
# category since Task 1) makes the M/L recipe itself (e.g.
# `corrections_ig_local_combined`) a raw top-level candidate for a plain
# (Direct) cog_spending() call -- following that hint would silently
# return intergovernmental dollars under `expenditure_concept = "direct"`
# provenance. This is a stronger, unconditional exclusion than the
# flow-prefix gate below/in `.attach_ig_counterparts()`: an M/L recipe
# should never be suggested as a coverage-gap filler for EITHER verb, not
# just kept from being named as the *counterpart* of another suggestion.
candidates <- DBI::dbGetQuery(con, sprintf(
"SELECT DISTINCT recipe_id FROM harmonization_recipes
WHERE component_code IN (
SELECT DISTINCT item_code FROM summary_categories WHERE category IN (%s)
)
AND recipe_id NOT IN (
SELECT DISTINCT recipe_id FROM harmonization_recipes
WHERE LEFT(component_code, 1) IN ('M', 'L')
)",
.sql_lit_chr(category)
))$recipe_id
if (length(candidates) == 0L) return(list())
result_years <- if (is.null(result) || nrow(result) == 0L) {
integer(0)
} else {
unique(as.integer(result$year))
}
gap_years <- setdiff(as.integer(years), result_years)
# Path 2 (uscogdata#9): component dollars this government holds that the
# verb's own view structurally excludes. Measured across ALL requested
# years, not just gap years -- the whole point is that a year with rows can
# still be missing dollars. Scoped to the calling verb's own flow_prefixes
# (I1) -- see `.suppressed_components()`'s own roxygen for why.
#
# This runs unconditionally whenever there are candidates -- an earlier
# revision of this fix wave tried a free, in-memory pre-check
# (`.needs_suppression_query()`) to skip the round trip on an already-
# covered path, but a scoped re-review measured it against the fixture and
# found it didn't pay for itself (it skipped ~3% of healthy calls, ~0% of
# the multi-govid batch shape it was meant to help, at a net cost increase
# once its own always-run metadata query was counted) while adding an
# untested exactness invariant -- that `result$codes_included` and this
# anti-join share the harmonized `item_code` space -- whose silent
# violation would kill signposting, the exact failure class uscogdata#9
# exists to prevent. Owner's call: keep this simple; a batch-aware
# optimization, if one is worth building, is a separate issue.
supp <- .suppressed_components(con, candidates, govid, years, long_view, flow_prefixes)
if (length(gap_years) == 0L && nrow(supp) == 0L) return(list())
meta <- tibble::as_tibble(DBI::dbGetQuery(con, sprintf(
"SELECT recipe_id, any_value(label) AS label,
MIN(year_min) AS year_min, MAX(year_max) AS year_max
FROM harmonization_recipes
WHERE recipe_id IN (%s)
GROUP BY recipe_id",
.sql_lit_chr(candidates)
)))
# Path 1 (unchanged): (recipe, year) pairs the recipe's own generic join
# covers for this government, restricted to the gap years.
covered <- if (length(gap_years) == 0L) {
data.frame(recipe_id = character(0), year = integer(0))
} else {
DBI::dbGetQuery(con, sprintf(
"SELECT DISTINCT r.recipe_id, l.year
FROM long l
JOIN harmonization_recipes r
ON l.item_code = r.component_code
AND l.year BETWEEN r.year_min AND r.year_max
AND (r.gov_type_scope = 'all'
OR (r.gov_type_scope = 'state' AND l.type = 0)
OR (r.gov_type_scope = 'local' AND l.type BETWEEN 1 AND 3))
WHERE r.recipe_id IN (%s)
AND l.canonical_govid IN (%s)
AND l.year IN (%s)",
.sql_lit_chr(candidates), .sql_lit_chr(govid),
paste(gap_years, collapse = ",")
))
}
suggestions <- list()
for (rid in candidates) {
empty_hit <- rid %in% covered$recipe_id
s_rows <- supp[supp$recipe_id == rid, , drop = FALSE]
supp_hit <- nrow(s_rows) > 0L
if (!empty_hit && !supp_hit) next
m <- meta[meta$recipe_id == rid, ]
suggestions[[length(suggestions) + 1L]] <- list(
recipe_id = rid,
label = m$label[[1]],
available_years = c(as.integer(m$year_min), as.integer(m$year_max)),
hint = sprintf("re-run with recipe = '%s'", rid),
# An empty year is the stronger claim -- the category returned nothing
# at all -- so it wins when both paths qualify. The suppressed_* fields
# are still populated, so an empty_year fire also reports its dollars.
trigger = if (empty_hit) "empty_year" else "suppressed_component",
suppressed_amount = if (supp_hit) sum(s_rows$suppressed_amount) else 0,
suppressed_years = if (supp_hit) {
sort(unique(as.integer(s_rows$year)))
} else {
integer(0)
},
suppressed_codes = if (supp_hit) {
sort(unique(unlist(strsplit(s_rows$suppressed_codes, ",", fixed = TRUE))))
} else {
character(0)
}
)
}
.attach_ig_counterparts(con, suggestions, flow_prefixes)
}
#' Measure, per (recipe, year), the component dollars this government holds
#' that the calling verb's own long view structurally excludes.
#'
#' This is the second qualifying path for a suggestion (uscogdata#9). The
#' first -- row absence -- only fires when a category returns NOTHING in a
#' requested year, which is how Corrections behaves in the wide era. Public
#' Welfare is the failure mode it misses: E74/E75/E77/E79 still return rows,
#' so there is no absence to detect, while E67/E68 (aggregate-flagged 1967-
#' 2011, and absent from `summary_categories` entirely) are dropped. The
#' caller gets a plausible number a third too low, silently.
#'
#' "Structurally excluded" is decided by anti-joining the verb's REAL long
#' view rather than restating its WHERE clause, so this stays correct if
#' `spending_long_harmonized` / `revenue_long_harmonized` ever change. That
#' anti-join is keyed on `item_code`, which is sound only because
#' harmonization never renames a recipe component -- asserted by the "no
#' recipe component is ever renamed by harmonization" test in
#' tests/testthat/test-recipes.R.
#'
#' Note what this deliberately does NOT count as suppressed: a component
#' excluded from the RESULT for scoping reasons -- because it belongs to a
#' different `category`, or because `expenditure_concept` narrowed the
#' subtypes -- is still present in the view, so it never fires. Suggesting a
#' recipe is a coverage fix, not a category redefinition.
#'
#' `flow_prefixes` (uscogdata#9 review, finding I1) restricts the measured
#' components to the CALLING VERB's own flow family (`c("E","F","G")` for
#' spending, `c("T","A","U","B","C","D")` for revenue). Without this, a
#' candidate recipe belonging to the OTHER flow family is always absent from
#' this verb's view (by construction -- `cog_revenue()`'s view never carries
#' an E-coded row) 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()` reports and fully accounts
#' for). Filtering on `LEFT(r.component_code, 1)` also drops M/L-prefixed
#' components from measurement under `cog_spending()` (`flow_prefixes` never
#' includes "M"/"L") -- harmless today, because a recipe's own M/L components
#' (e.g. `corrections_ig_local_combined`'s M04/M05) are present in the view
#' in every year they exist and so never fired as suppressed anyway, but
#' worth recording since this filter is now the thing relied on to prevent
#' it.
#'
#' @param con Active DuckDB connection.
#' @param candidates Character vector of recipe ids to measure.
#' @param govid Character vector of canonical_govid values.
#' @param years Integer vector of requested years.
#' @param long_view Name of the verb's long view, from `.select_long_view()`.
#' @param flow_prefixes The calling verb's own flow-type prefixes (see
#' `.build_suggestions()`). Only recipe components whose first character is
#' in this set are measured.
#' @return Tibble of `recipe_id`, `year`, `suppressed_amount` (full US
#' dollars), `suppressed_codes` (comma-joined, sorted). Zero rows when
#' nothing is suppressed.
#' @noRd
.suppressed_components <- function(con, candidates, govid, years, long_view,
flow_prefixes) {
empty <- tibble::tibble(
recipe_id = character(0), year = numeric(0),
suppressed_amount = numeric(0), suppressed_codes = character(0)
)
if (length(candidates) == 0L) return(empty)
# long_view is interpolated as a SQL IDENTIFIER, not a literal, so it can
# never be quoted safely. It is always internally derived from a fixed
# view_base, so an off-allowlist value is a programming error, not input.
if (!long_view %in% c("spending_long", "spending_long_harmonized",
"revenue_long", "revenue_long_harmonized")) {
cli::cli_abort(
"Internal error: unexpected `long_view` {.val {long_view}}.",
class = "uscogdata_internal_error"
)
}
sql <- sprintf(
"SELECT r.recipe_id,
l.year,
SUM(l.amt) * 1000.0 AS suppressed_amount,
string_agg(DISTINCT l.item_code, ',' ORDER BY l.item_code)
AS suppressed_codes
FROM long l
JOIN harmonization_recipes r
ON l.item_code = r.component_code
AND l.year BETWEEN r.year_min AND r.year_max
AND (r.gov_type_scope = 'all'
OR (r.gov_type_scope = 'state' AND l.type = 0)
OR (r.gov_type_scope = 'local' AND l.type BETWEEN 1 AND 3))
WHERE r.recipe_id IN (%1$s)
AND l.canonical_govid IN (%2$s)
AND l.year IN (%3$s)
AND l.amt <> 0
AND LEFT(r.component_code, 1) IN (%5$s)
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM %4$s v
WHERE v.canonical_govid = l.canonical_govid
AND v.year = l.year
AND v.item_code = l.item_code
AND v.year IN (%3$s) -- restated: enables partition pruning (I3a)
AND v.canonical_govid IN (%2$s) -- restated: pushes the govid filter (I3a)
)
GROUP BY 1, 2
ORDER BY 1, 2",
.sql_lit_chr(candidates), .sql_lit_chr(govid),
paste(as.integer(years), collapse = ","), long_view,
.sql_lit_chr(flow_prefixes)
)
tibble::as_tibble(DBI::dbGetQuery(con, sql))
}
#' Attach `ig_recipe_id` to each suggestion: the intergovernmental-expenditure
#' recipe (an M-to-local or L-to-state recipe) whose component codes cover
#' exactly the same set of function suffixes as the firing recipe's own
#' components, e.g. `corrections_combined`'s {E04, E05} -> suffixes {"04",
#' "05"} matches `corrections_ig_local_combined`'s {M04, M05} -> the same
#' {"04", "05"}. `NULL` when no such recipe exists, which also covers the
#' case where the firing recipe already IS the IG recipe (self-matches are
#' excluded, so an IG recipe never names itself as its own counterpart).
#'
#' Matching is deliberately an exact set match, not "any suffix in common":
#' the two-digit suffix only means the same "function" across recipes that
#' share the underlying Census functional-classification scheme (E/F/G/L/M
#' all use "04"/"05" for corrections). M/L "combined other" codes (47/89/
#' 91-94) reuse digits for an unrelated catch-all construct, so e.g.
#' `general_gov_e89_wide`'s {E85, E89} -> {"85", "89"} must NOT match
#' `ige_local_m89_wide`'s {"89", "91", "92", "93"} on the shared "89" alone.
#' Checked by hand against the full harmonization_recipes catalog: only the
#' corrections family (E/F/G/M, suffixes 04/05) has an exact-set match in
#' this corpus.
#'
#' Exact-set suffix matching is NOT enough on its own, though: the same
#' reused-digit problem exists ACROSS the revenue-side IG families too.
#' `ig_local_d47_wide` (D47/D94, suffixes {"47","94"}) is an exact-set match
#' for `ige_local_m47_wide` (M47/M94, same suffixes) even though one is
#' intergovernmental REVENUE received from local governments and the other is
#' intergovernmental EXPENDITURE paid to local governments -- unrelated flows
#' that happen to reuse "47"/"94" for their own "transit/utilities" and
#' "other/combined" catch-alls. `ig_federal_b47_wide`, `ig_state_c47_wide`,
#' and their `*_89` siblings all collide the same way. None of this is
#' reachable via `cog_revenue()` in the bundled fixture today (its B/C/D
#' recipes never happen to have a covered gap year for any fixture govid),
#' but it IS reachable via a mis-scoped `cog_spending()` call on a
#' revenue-only category, e.g. `cog_spending(gov, category = "IG Federal")`
#' fires `ig_federal_b47_wide`/`ig_federal_b89_wide` for real in the fixture
#' -- so this is a live, not merely theoretical, gap.
#'
#' Two flow-family checks close this, both required (see
#' `tests/testthat/test-expenditure-concept.R`, "revenue-flavored ... never
#' receives an M/L counterpart" tests, for the pairwise verification):
#' 1. `own_prefix %in% flow_prefixes`: the firing recipe's own component
#' codes must belong to the calling verb's own flow family (the same
#' `flow_prefixes` `.build_harmonization_block()` uses, see
#' `R/basis.R`). This blocks a recipe surfaced through a mis-scoped
#' category from ever reaching the M/L search, e.g. `cog_spending()`'s
#' flow_prefixes are `c("E","F","G")`, which `ig_federal_b47_wide`'s own
#' `"B"` is not part of.
#' 2. `own_prefix %in% c("E","F","G")`: M/L only ever pairs with the
#' DIRECT-expenditure family, never with revenue (`cog_revenue()`'s
#' flow_prefixes already fold B/C/D in as ordinary revenue -- there is
#' no separate "Total" bolt-on for revenue the way `expenditure_concept`
#' adds one for spending) and never with ANOTHER M/L recipe (without
#' this check, `ige_local_m47_wide` would wrongly match sibling
#' `ige_state_l47_wide` on their shared {"47","94"} suffix set).
#' Condition 1 alone does not catch this: under `cog_revenue()`,
#' `ig_federal_b47_wide`'s own `"B"` IS inside revenue's own
#' `flow_prefixes`, so only this second, family-specific check blocks
#' the search.
#' @noRd
.attach_ig_counterparts <- function(con, suggestions, flow_prefixes) {
if (length(suggestions) == 0L) return(suggestions)
comp <- DBI::dbGetQuery(con,
"SELECT recipe_id, component_code FROM harmonization_recipes")
comp$prefix <- substr(comp$component_code, 1L, 1L)
comp$suffix <- substr(comp$component_code, 2L, nchar(comp$component_code))
suffix_sets <- lapply(split(comp$suffix, comp$recipe_id), function(x) sort(unique(x)))
prefix_sets <- lapply(split(comp$prefix, comp$recipe_id), function(x) sort(unique(x)))
ig_recipe_ids <- unique(comp$recipe_id[comp$prefix %in% c("M", "L")])
find_counterpart <- function(rid) {
own_prefix <- prefix_sets[[rid]]
own_suffix <- suffix_sets[[rid]]
if (is.null(own_prefix) || is.null(own_suffix)) return(NULL)
if (!all(own_prefix %in% flow_prefixes)) return(NULL)
if (!all(own_prefix %in% c("E", "F", "G"))) return(NULL)
for (cand in ig_recipe_ids) {
if (identical(cand, rid)) next
if (setequal(suffix_sets[[cand]], own_suffix)) return(cand)
}
NULL
}
lapply(suggestions, function(s) {
# `s$ig_recipe_id <- NULL` would DELETE the element rather than set it
# (standard R list-assignment gotcha), leaving no-match entries missing
# the key entirely instead of carrying it as NULL. Single-bracket
# assignment with a wrapped list preserves a NULL-valued element so the
# field is always present, per the brief's "NULL when there is none".
s["ig_recipe_id"] <- list(find_counterpart(s$recipe_id))
s
})
}
#' Emit the single cli::cli_inform() message summarizing all suggestions
#' for a verb call (the brief's "one message", not one per suggestion).
#' Bullet text is pre-formatted plain text (no cli/glue `{}` markup) since
#' recipe ids/labels are untrusted-ish data values, not literal call-site
#' expressions. When a suggestion has an `ig_recipe_id`, one indented
#' continuation line is appended naming the intergovernmental counterpart
#' recipe (embedded `\n` renders as a hanging-indent continuation of the
#' same bullet under cli, not a new bullet). Same treatment for
#' `suppressed_amount` (uscogdata#9): only present when dollars were
#' actually measured as excluded (an `empty_year` fire can carry them too --
#' see `.build_suggestions()` -- so this keys off the amount, not `trigger`).
#' @noRd
.inform_suggestions <- function(suggestions) {
bullets <- vapply(suggestions, function(s) {
bullet <- sprintf("%s (%d-%d): %s", s$recipe_id,
s$available_years[1], s$available_years[2], s$hint)
# Only present when dollars were actually measured as excluded. An
# empty_year fire can carry them too -- the year had no rows AND the
# component was suppressed -- which is strictly more informative.
if (isTRUE(s$suppressed_amount > 0)) {
bullet <- paste0(bullet, sprintf(
"\n $%s excluded from %s (%s), published as an aggregate or outside the crosswalk",
formatC(s$suppressed_amount, format = "f", digits = 0, big.mark = ","),
paste0("FY", s$suppressed_years, collapse = ", "),
paste(s$suppressed_codes, collapse = ", ")))
}
if (!is.null(s$ig_recipe_id)) {
bullet <- paste0(bullet, sprintf(
"\n intergovernmental counterpart: recipe = '%s'", s$ig_recipe_id))
}
bullet
}, character(1))
cli::cli_inform(c(
i = "Incomplete coverage for the requested years; a harmonization recipe may fill it:",
stats::setNames(bullets, rep("*", length(bullets)))
))
}