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manystates 0.3.1

Package

Data

  • Closed #72 by adding version 2 of states$ISD
  • Closed #64 by filling in missing state names in states$HUGGO

manystates 0.3.0

Package

  • Added package startup message
  • Updated references from database to datacube
  • Updated website, linking to manytreaties and manyigos
  • Updated github workflows

Data

  • Updated states
    • Renamed states$HUGGO_STATES to states$HUGGO
    • Improved states$HUGGO by adding missing state names
    • Improved states$HUGGO by adding missing latitude/longitudes, where possible
    • Improved country coding in states$ICOW
    • Added stateID for datasets without this variable using manypkgs::code_states() (closes #71)
    • Renamed Beg variable Begin in all datasets (closes #67)
    • Fixed RATRULES citation
    • Dropped economic freedom dataset (closes #66)
    • Reordered variables so that shared variables lead datasets
  • Updated contiguity
    • Rearranged contiguity variables
    • Renamed contiguity$HUGGO_CONT to contiguity$HUGGO
    • Renamed contiguity$COW_DIRCONT to contiguity$COW
    • Dropped additional variables in contiguity$HUGGO as duplicates of states$HUGGO
  • Updated related tests
  • Improved variable mapping explanation (closes #68)
  • Improved dataset documentation by making it computational
  • Dropped leaders and regimes

Functions

  • Dropped extract_cshapes()
  • Dropped extract_vdem()

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

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