globalmacrodata 2.0.0

globalmacrodata 2.0.0

This release publishes the 2026_03 GitHub version of the Global Macro Database R package.

Highlights

• updates the package for the 2026_03 data release
• adds bundled fallback metadata for versions, sources, and variables
• adds helper functions to query available and current package data versions
• uses the AWS S3 versions.csv source for runtime version discovery, with packaged offline fallback
• updates package documentation, README examples, and tests for the current release

Included changes

• added get_available_versions()
• added get_current_version()
• updated gmd() version handling and release metadata lookup
• bundled inst/versions.csv
• bundled inst/source_list.csv
• bundled inst/varlist.csv
• refreshed manual pages and test coverage
• removed obsolete simple_test.R

Validation

This release was validated with:

• R CMD build .
• R CMD check --as-cran globalmacrodata_2.0.0.tar.gz
• local testthat checks
• live smoke tests for:
  • current version lookup
  • main dataset download
  • variables list
  • country list
  • source list
  • source-specific download
  • raw variable download
  • citation lookup

Install

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("KMueller-Lab/Global-Macro-Database-R")