Merge pull request #86 from JuliaActuary/artifacts

leverage artifacts for bundled tables

.github/workflows/github_ci.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Julia ${{ matrix.version }} - ${{ matrix.os }} - ${{ matrix.arch }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         version:
           - '1.5'

Artifacts.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[SOA_Tables]
+git-tree-sha1 = "52b77526be6e7c36ebf8e03009e04ef52f802925"
+
+    [[SOA_Tables.download]]
+    sha256 = "4542fd10f0f417f5980740371240070fd144c167a5ebf4d0631708bc4a3307f2"
+    url = "https://github.com/JuliaActuary/Artifacts/raw/master/SOA_Tables_20201022.tar.gz"

Project.toml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ version = "0.12.1"
 HTTP = "cd3eb016-35fb-5094-929b-558a96fad6f3"
 OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
 Parsers = "69de0a69-1ddd-5017-9359-2bf0b02dc9f0"
+Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 QuadGK = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 Transducers = "28d57a85-8fef-5791-bfe6-a80928e7c999"

README.md

@@ -214,13 +214,9 @@ Sample of some of the included table sets:
 
 If you would like more tables added by default, please open a GitHub issue with the request.
 
-#### Load with bundled tables
+#### Load custom set of tables
 
-To add more tables for your use when loading with all of the other bundled tables, download the `.xml` [aka the (`XTbML` format)](https://mort.soa.org/About.aspx) version of the table from [mort.SOA.org](https://mort.soa.org) and place it in the directory the package is installed in. This is usually `~user/.julia/packages/MortalityTables/[changing hash value]/src/tables/`.
-
-> :warning: *updating the package may remove your existing tables. Make a backup before updating your packages*
-
-After placing packages in the folder above, restart Julia and the should be discoverable when you run `mt.Tables()`
+Download the `.xml` [aka the (`XTbML` format)](https://mort.soa.org/About.aspx) version of the table from [mort.SOA.org](https://mort.soa.org) and place it in a directory of your choosing. Then call `MortaliyTables.tables(path_to_your_dir)`.
 
 ### [mort.SOA.org](https://mort.soa.org) Tables
 

src/MortalityTables.jl

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using QuadGK
 using Requires
 using UnPack
 using XMLDict
+using Pkg.Artifacts
 
 include("MetaData.jl")
 include("death_distribution.jl")

src/XTbML.jl

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Loads the [XtbML](https://mort.soa.org/About.aspx) (the SOA XML data format for
 """
 function tables(dir=nothing)
     if isnothing(dir)
-        table_dir = joinpath(pkgdir(MortalityTables), "src", "tables", "SOA")
+        table_dir = artifact"SOA_Tables"
     else
         table_dir = dir
     end