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CepalStatR 0.9.2

SoftwareX peer-review revision

Testing and validation

  • Added automated tests using testthat for the main exported functions.
  • Added opt-in tests against the live CEPALSTAT API.
  • Added tests for provenance metadata.
  • Validated the revised package with R CMD check with 0 errors, 0 warnings, and 0 notes.

API and internal architecture

  • Centralized API communication through the internal cepal_get() helper.
  • Improved validation and handling of API responses.
  • Removed duplicated internal utilities.

Reproducibility

  • Added provenance metadata to retrieved objects, including retrieval timestamp, package version, indicator identifier, language, and API endpoint.

Data structures

  • Indicator identifiers are now handled as character values to prevent unintended numeric formatting.
  • Improved consistency of returned objects.

Dependencies

  • Removed unused dependencies and simplified the package dependency set.

Documentation and visualization

  • Improved viewer.indicators() display of indicator identifiers.
  • Updated topic_map() examples to better expose the thematic hierarchy.
  • Updated documentation associated with the revised software architecture.

This GitHub release contains changes introduced during peer review of the SoftwareX manuscript. Version 0.9.0 remains the current CRAN release.