grattan

Australian Tax Policy Analysis

NEWS

1.5.2.5

2017-11-16

• Update wage data to 2017-Q3
• Update labour force data to 2017-09
• (internal) The lf_trend internal data table used to report the labour force in thousands of persons, as the ABS does. This seemed a bit strange, so now obsValue uses integers (i.e. just the labour force).
• Vignettes now install taxstats to a temporary directory if not already installed, rather than the user or system's library.

2017-10-27

• Update CPI data
• Fix wage data

1.5.2.3

2017-10-21

• Update labour-force data

grattan 1.5.2.0

2017-10-19

• New internal C++ functions for income_tax, and related functions
• BTO function now uses tax scales from the Income Tax Regulations

grattan 1.5.1.2

2017-10-15

• Optional argument age in income_tax now NULL rather than 42. The default argument continues to result in SAPTO being not applied if .dots.ATO. However, if .dots.ATO is supplied (and the age variable has not been removed from it), the individuals' SAPTO eligibility is determined by the age variable in .dots.ATO, rather than setting each individual's SAPTO to 0.

2017-08-30

• Update labour force data. Avoid segfault in separate package in unit test.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

2017-08-16

• Update wage, CPI, labour force data

2017-07-02

• Update wage and labour force data
• Fix breaking build due to change in dplyr API

CRAN Notes

Test environments

• local Windows install, MRAN 3.4.2

• ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R devel and release https://travis-ci.org/HughParsonage/grattan

• win-builder (devel) https://win-builder.r-project.org/Mer51d990tOv/00check.log

• This is a package update to:

• fix vignettes to comply with CRAN policy

• reflect recent data

R CMD check results

0 errors | 0 warnings | 2 notes

• The first NOTE is with respect to the 'taxstats' package not being a mainstream repository; its inclusion satisfies the CRAN repository policy, as in previous versions.

The NOTE also recommends including the URL https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ in angle brackets; however, this NOTE is spurious as the URL is within R code.

• The second NOTE refers to GNU make as a SystemRequirements. This is a modest requirement and is necessary to run RcppParallel.

In addition:

• There are two 'Additional issues' in which undefined behaviour is detected via clang-UBSAN and gcc-UBSAN. These issues arise due to an issue with RcppParallel. The maintainers of RcppParallel appears to fixed these issues in a development version (downstream of https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppParallel/pull/48); however this version is yet to reach CRAN. Accordingly, there are no changes in my package addressing these issues.