NEWS.md
areacode identifiers are now preserved as character values throughout canreg and fbswicd workflows, allowing non-administrative registry codes.year and sex columns as integer values across canreg, fbswicd, and derived summary workflows.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.