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pulso 0.1.0

Initial CRAN release

pulso provides programmatic access to microdata from Colombia’s Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH), published monthly by DANE.

Functions

Loading data:

• pulso_load() – download and parse a single GEIH module
• pulso_load_merged() – download and merge multiple persona-level modules

Column metadata:

• pulso_describe_column() – describe a single column in loaded data
• pulso_list_columns_metadata() – list metadata for all columns in a tibble

Catalog and validation:

• pulso_list_validated_range() – list periods with verified downloads
• pulso_validation_status() – validation info for a specific period

Module and variable discovery:

• pulso_describe() – describe a survey module
• pulso_describe_variable() – describe a canonical variable and its epoch mappings
• pulso_list_variables() – list canonical variables, optionally filtered by module

Banco de la República data:

• pulso_tpm() – download the monetary policy rate (TPM) set by Banco de la República, with automatic fallback to a bundled snapshot when the live SDMX API is unavailable

Bug fixes (pre-CRAN)

• BUG-003/010: Fixed Unicode filename handling. Modules with tildes (caracteristicas_generales, migracion) now load correctly on all platforms including macOS and Windows. Uses base unz() connection to read CP437-encoded zip entries without writing to disk.
• BUG-004: Fixed epoch1 column variance crash. dplyr::bind_rows() replaces rbind() to handle Cabecera/Resto CSVs with type-mismatched shared columns. Affects 2007-2021 (14 years of data).
• BUG-005: Auto-detect CSV separator. data.table::fread(sep="auto") replaces read.csv(sep=";") to handle period-specific delimiters. Affects 2022-01.
• BUG-006: pulso_load() now raises pulso_data_not_validated by default for unvalidated periods. Pass allow_unvalidated = TRUE to load with a visible warning. Currently 5 periods are validated: 2007-12, 2015-06, 2021-12, 2022-01, 2024-06.
• BUG-011: Vignettes are pre-built in the package tarball.
• BUG-017: Keyword matcher now accepts numeric suffixes in filenames (e.g., Ocupados06.csv). Affects 2013-06.
• BUG-018: Added Shape C dispatch for COVID-period single-CSV variants. Affects 2020-06 and 2020-12.
• BUG-NEW-001: Skip adding synthetic CLASE column when the DANE CSV already contains one (case-insensitive check). Prevents duplicate- column error on tibble::as_tibble(). Affects 2014-06, 2015-06, and other periods where DANE encodes clase directly in Cabecera/Resto CSVs.

Known Limitations

• Only 5/230 periods are explicitly validated. Use allow_unvalidated = TRUE for the rest.
• Variable map (Curator) entries have comparability_warning flag. Use pulso_list_variables() to see has_warning column.
• Nested-zip periods (2024-03, 2024-04) raise pulso_parse_error with a v0.2.0 deferral notice.
• ECH epoch (2000-2006) not yet supported. Planned for v0.2.0.
• Mixed-level merges (persona + hogar in same pulso_load_merged() call) deferred to v0.2.0.
• Banco de la República integration currently covers the policy rate (pulso_tpm()) only. The Indicador Bancario de Referencia (IBR) and a generic SDMX accessor are deferred to v0.2.0.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.