Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

manystates 0.2.0

Package

• Closed #61 by updating functions to import Varieties of Democracy data from the Github package with standardised variable names.
• Updated import_vdem(), import_vparty(), and import_cshapes() function by fixing CMD warnings and notes.
• Closed #54 by moving code_states() to manypkgs for consistency across packages.
• Added first draft of vignette to publicize manystates data.
• Updated pkgdown.yml file

Data

• Closed #57 by replacing GNEVAR datasets with HUGGO datasets for handcoded data in states, leaders, and contiguity databases.
• Added some missing state names (StateName variable) and regions (Region variable) in HUGGO_STATES dataset.

manystates 0.1.1

Functions

• Added generate_states() for generating lists of fictional state names

manystates 0.1.0

Package

• Updated regex for code_states() to more accurately match and translate states’ names.
• Updated workflow files to include package caching.
• Re-rendered documentation using messydates::mreport().
• Added {cshapes} and {vdemdata} dependencies

Data

• Added data across databases
  • Closed #9 by adding ICOW datasets to states database.
  • Closed #24 by adding Economic Freedom datasets to economics database.
  • Closed #25 by adding Freedom House data to regimes database.
  • Closed #48 by adding data on states’ ratification rules to ratrules database.
  • Closed #49 by adding Colonial Relations data from ICOW dataset to colsrels database.
  • Closed #50 by adding self-coded data on the latitude and longitude of state capitals as GNEVAR_STATES dataset in states database.
  • Closed #51 by adding contiguity and regions data from FAO and ICOW in contiguity database.
• Changed class for date variables (Beg and End) from messydt to mdate using messydates::as_messydate() in preparation scripts across databases.

manystates 0.0.6

Package

• Fixed #43 by extending the regex pattern matching process of code_states()
• Changed the package name from {qStates} to manystates