prepare for release

Author: chris-prener

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: zippeR
 Title: Working with United States ZIP Code and ZIP Code Tabulation Area Data
-Version: 0.1.1
+Version: 0.1.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person(
       given = "Christopher", family = "Prener", email = "[email protected]", 

NEWS.md

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+# zippeR 0.1.2
+
+* Address issues with Census Bureau API being offline
+
 # zippeR 0.1.1
 
 * Updates to `README.md` and `NEWS.md` to reflect the fact that the package is now on CRAN

cran-comments.md

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 ## Release summary
 This version of `zippeR` is a patch for CRAN. The package has been updated to address the following issues:
 
-* The package was failing CRAN tests earlier this month due to the U.S. Census Bureau's servers being taken offline. If this were to happen in the future, the funciton `zi_get_geometry()` will now return a value of `NULL` along with an informative message.
+* The package was failing CRAN tests earlier this month due to the U.S. Census Bureau's servers being taken offline. If this were to happen in the future, the demographic functions now fail informatively.
 
 ## Test environments
-* local macOS install: R 4.4.2
+* local macOS install: R 4.4.3
 * Linux ubuntu distribution (via GitHub Actions): R-devel, R-release, past four R-oldrel
 * macOS (via GitHub Actions): R-release
 * windows (via GitHub Actions): R-release