jaredandClaude Opus 4.8
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Schema v6 (cog_pipeline 2026-07-22) renamed the long table's
fips_state_code/fips_county_code to fips_state_asof/fips_county_asof and added
cog_legacy_state/cog_legacy_county (26 -> 28 cols). This package references
none of those columns and its geography always came from
canonical_fips_xwalk (already present-based), so acceptance is a version-set
bump: supported = c(4L, 5L) -> c(4L, 5L, 6L) in .validate_schema() and
cog_open(). A prominent note in .validate_schema() documents the SILENT
semantic change for raw-long readers: long fips_state/fips_county are now
PRESENT/harmonized geography (carried back per government), not as-of-year.
Fixture regenerated from the published v6 tree (schema_version 6, 28 cols).
Test updates:
* test-manifest.R: v6 accepted; boundary rejection moves to v7.
* test-spending.R: the na_rows_excluded pin (0) predated the Task 18 map
extension, which added E/F/G-prefix discontinued_na rulings (E21/F21/G21,
Education NEC local, SB184-186). Broward's 2011 partition zero-pads
exactly those codes: 3 NA-harmonized rows excluded, all amt=0, so the
excluded AMOUNT pin stays 0. Data-verified against the v6 fixture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.