NEWS

GetBCBData 0.9.5

removed the package vignette, which relied on a live call to the BCB API and caused intermittent CRAN check errors ('from' must be a finite number) when the service was unreachable while re-building vignettes
dropped 'VignetteBuilder' from DESCRIPTION accordingly

added new function gbcbd_search_series() to search the BCB-SGS catalog by text
added 'xml2' dependency to parse the BCB-SGS search results
the search supports caching (use_memoise/cache_path) and pagination (max_results)

renamed function arguments and internal variables to snake_case
old dot-case argument names (first.date, format.data, etc.) still work as deprecated aliases, with a warning
renamed output columns to snake_case: ref_date, id_num and series_name (breaking change)
updated documentation, README and vignette

fixed wide format output when a requested series fails (columns are now consistent with successful calls)
fixed duplicated/zero-length period when the queried date span is a multiple of the sequential interval
made the sequential-fetching threshold consistent with the documented 10-year API limit
cleaned up query_api retry loop and suppressed HTTP warnings before retrying
be.quiet is now respected in the per-series helper; fetch failures are reported instead of a misleading success message
strengthened argument validation (id, dates and logical arguments)
removed unused 'utils' dependency
test suite cleanup (removed duplicated tests, added regression tests)

added new sequential method for querying with diff_year < 10 years (this fixes #11)

Fixed bcb url to https
fixed example of main function gbcbd_get_series()
added time difference control for any request with diff year > 10 (the api blocks such requests..)