merge_tables was used applied to
tables with different periods, results were dependent on the order in
which tables were arranged-in on the arguments list due to the use of
‘left_join’ logic. The updated implementation will return a row for
every period in any of the tables, making it insensitive to the order of
the tables in the input. As a side-effect of the implementation the
resulting table will return the merged table ordered-by the column(s) in
the join_by argument in ascending order.data_as_table, get_series_table,
get_series_tables, and get_n_series_table all
have new optional parameter “parse_values” which will cast numeric
strings into numeric valuesbls_request has new optional
process_response argument which gives users access to the
raw API responseget series documentation improvedtidy_table_as_zoo for users of zoo and
xtsget_series_table and
get_series_tables to request more than 20 years of data by
making multiple requestsBLS_API_TEST_KEY env variable
is settidy_periods now puts month and quarter column after
yearInitial release