Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

climasus4r 0.0.0.9000 (development version)

Phase 1: Data Infrastructure (🔄 vs ✅)

New Features

• Data Import
  • 🔄 sus_data_import(): Import DATASUS data with parallel processing support
  • Automatic caching to avoid redundant downloads
  • Support for multiple states and years in a single call
  • Progress tracking with informative CLI messages
  • Error handling with detailed reporting
• Data Cleaning
  • 🔄 sus_data_clean_encoding(): Automatic detection and correction of character encoding issues
  • Handles common Latin1/UTF-8 conflicts in Brazilian Portuguese text
  • Reports which columns were corrected
• Data Standardization
  • 🔄 sus_data_standardize(): Comprehensive column name and value standardization
  • Translates 80+ Portuguese column names to English
  • Standardizes categorical values (sex, race, marital status, etc.)
  • Option to keep original columns for comparison
• Disease Filtering
  • 🔄 sus_data_filter_cid(): Flexible ICD-10 code filtering
  • Support for single codes, code ranges, and entire chapters
  • Multiple matching strategies (exact, starts_with, range)
  • Auto-detection of ICD column

Roadmap

Phase 2: Socioeconomic Integration (Planned)

• Geographic boundary linking
• IBGE socioeconomic data integration
• Population-weighted spatial operations

Phase 3: Environmental Integration (Planned)

• INMET meteorological data import
• Air quality data integration
• Exposure matching algorithms

Phase 4: Spatial Analysis (Planned)

• Bayesian spatial smoothing
• Spatial cluster detection
• Local indicators of spatial association

Phase 5: Temporal & Predictive Analysis (Planned)

• Distributed lag non-linear models (DLNM)
• Attributable fraction calculation
• Machine learning prediction wrappers