NEWS

canregtools 0.2.11

areacode identifiers are now preserved as character values throughout canreg and fbswicd workflows, allowing non-administrative registry codes.
Improved package metadata in DESCRIPTION, including a more informative package description, author ORCID, and affiliation.
Standardized year and sex columns as integer values across canreg, fbswicd, and derived summary workflows.
Updated CRAN submission metadata and removed the unused VignetteBuilder field to avoid CRAN check notes when no package vignette is provided.
classify_areacode() now uses the updated area-code classification implementation with attr support and custom dictionaries; classify_areacode2() has been merged into classify_areacode().
create_site_morp() is added for counting ICD-10 site-code and morphology-code frequencies by user-defined strata.
cr_reframe() fixes missing deaths variable from population data in merging.
cr_rename() is added to rename selected registries in a canregs object while synchronizing their internal areacode values.
read_canreg() now uses readxl as an optional dependency, reducing required package dependencies when Excel import is not needed.

Fixed an issue where mortality rates were not displayed when incidence rates were missing for certain cancer types.
Corrected a calculation error in the m8000 statistics.