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SchoolDataIT 0.2.13 (2026-05-14)

Fixed bug in Get_DB_MIUR()
Switching from xml2::read_html() to httr::GET() in some other 'Get_' functions. Not 'Get_BroadBand' though. There, the xml2 method looks, for some reason, more robust.

Adapted 'Get_Invalsi_IS' to new website architecture
Additional gentle failure routines; switched to httr::GET() to scrape data from Ministry - it turns out to be more stable than xml2::read_html() when provider side has issues.
Had to move 'mapview' to suggests, as unfortunately it turns out to have been removed from CRAN.

Allowed to force early abort in Get_nteachers_prov to speedup checks when provider website is off.

Enforced security checks for provider-side issues through slightly more graceful failure.

Major changes: allowed to filter out duplicate building codes in 'Util_DB_MIUR_num'
Minor changes: fixed 'Get_Shapefile' for 2025 data

Major changes: adapted 'Get_BroadBand' to the new version of the webpage developed by data providers.
Minor changes: allows 'Get_School2mun' to work also with latest data, i.e. without downloading also the buildings registry

Major changes: fixed error in Set_DB function not allowing to run 'nstud_filter_by_grade'; allows to insert grouped 'input_nstud' input in Set_DB; allows 'Util_Invalsi_filter' to filter multiple years; allows 'Get_AdmUnNames' to work with any generic past or present date (function call input has changed from c(year, "mm_dd") to "yyyy-mm-dd")

Major changes: allows 'Util_nstud_wide' to both filter schools with class size in an order-specific interval, and to filter at the level of school grade rather than at the school level
Minor changes: fixed some urls in .Rd files
Fixed 'Get_nteachers_prov' to correctly download 2015/16 data

Experimental features: integrated the counts of students by school running time in the 'nstud' workflow; the user can now include safety certifications in the school buldings DB (not active by default since it requires extra computational time other than downloading time)
Minor changes: function 'Get_Shapefile' can now provide either the boundaries or the centroids of NUTS-3 and LAU administrative units; fixed warning message in 'Group_nstud'; 'Map_DB' allows to map municipality data at province level

Removed 'Get_RiskMap' because the input dataset does not appear to be currently available.
Redirected 'Get_AdmUnNames' to a specific repository of input datasets due to changes in provider website.
Removed 'readxl' from dependencies since no xls input files are scraped anymore.

Fixed bug due to geometry field in functions 'Map_DB' and 'Map_SchoolBuildings'; corrected argument 'col.rev' to 'col_rev' in function 'Map_Invalsi'

Minor changes: fixed 'Set_DB' for the case in which Invalsi Data must not be included; extended internal function 'School.order' to work with the schools in the Valle d'Aosta region; renamed 'data' the input dataframe of internal function 'Group_BroadBand'; renamed 'Registry_from_registry' and 'Registry_from_buildings' the arguments previously referred to as 'Registry2' and 'Registry'.