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fix: literal name search, units docs, peer-summary semantics (#16, #15, #14)
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.
2026-07-30 11:23:53 -04:00

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# Madison walkthrough audit -- finding F-004. Tracked as uscogdata#15.
# See docs/walkthroughs/FINDINGS.md in cog_explorer.
#
# The raw Census files report thousands of dollars; this package multiplies by
# 1000 and returns full US dollars. That is the friendlier choice and is not
# wrong -- but cog_explorer's CLAUDE.md states "All raw `amt` values are in
# $1,000s", so a reader who applies that rule to amt_nominal overstates every
# figure by 1000x, and gets a plausible-looking number rather than an obvious
# error. The audit rates this the highest-consequence definitional gap it found.
#
# Deliberately NOT asserted here: man/cog_spending.Rd and man/cog_revenue.Rd,
# which ALREADY carry the statement in their @return sections (verified
# 2026-07-29), as does cog-api's data-dictionary.md (since 2b71b41). The gap is
# in the surfaces a reader meets first and in cog_explorer's own conventions
# doc -- see uscogdata#15 for the full surface-by-surface table and for the two
# secondary tasks (cog_explorer/CLAUDE.md, which has no git remote, and
# cog-api's llms.txt, which is silent on units).
test_that("returned amounts are documented as full US dollars where readers meet the package", {
says_units <- function(path) {
txt <- paste(readLines(path, warn = FALSE), collapse = " ")
grepl("full US dollars|full U\\.S\\. dollars", txt, ignore.case = TRUE) &&
grepl("\\$1,000s|thousands of dollars", txt, ignore.case = TRUE)
}
expect_true(says_units(testthat::test_path("..", "..", "README.md")))
expect_true(says_units(testthat::test_path("..", "..", "vignettes", "total-spending.Rmd")))
expect_true(says_units(testthat::test_path("..", "..", "vignettes",
"population-denominators.Rmd")))
# Pin the documented claim to the actual behaviour, so the two cannot drift.
# The expected raw amount is read straight from the corpus's parquet
# partitions -- never through cog_spending(), which is the thing being
# described. Madison FY2020: E/F/G = 623,347 ($1,000s) -> $623,347,000.
raw_thousands <- wt_raw_amt("552025209777", 2020L, prefixes = c("E", "F", "G"))
expect_equal(raw_thousands, 623347)
returned <- cog_spending(govid = "552025209777", years = 2020L)
expect_equal(sum(returned$amt_nominal), raw_thousands * 1000)
units <- attr(returned, "provenance")$transformations$units_conversion
expect_true(units$applied)
expect_equal(units$multiplier, 1000)
})