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finlex 0.2.1 (2026-08-25)

Bug fix: flx_download_statutes() now fails gracefully (returning whatever data was retrieved so far, with an informative message) instead of raising an uncaught error when the Finlex API is unreachable or rate-limits the request (HTTP 429). This addresses a CRAN policy compliance issue: all other exported functions already had this protection, but flx_download_statutes(), being the first function written, had been missed.

flx_get_text(): get the full text of a statute, split into one row per section.
flx_get_doc(): retrieve documents from the generic doc endpoint (treaties, government proposals, authority regulations, and certain collective agreements). Documents with no machine-readable text (only a scanned PDF) are reported with status = "pdf_only" and a pdf_url.
flx_get_consolidated_text(): get the consolidated (up-to-date) text of a statute, with all amendments merged in.
Added a package vignette covering all seven functions.

Initial CRAN release.
flx_download_statutes(): download the catalogue of Finnish statutes for a given range of years and statute categories.
flx_get_title(): get the official title of one or more statutes.
flx_get_metadata(): get structured metadata (date issued, title, number of sections) for one or more statutes.
flx_get_affected(): get the statute(s) affected by an amending or repealing statute.