Changelog • manystates

manystates 1.0.2

Dropped unnecessary dependencies for CRAN submission
Added more description of included data and functions to the README (closed #78)
Added funding details to the README
Package still under development but considered stable (closed #76)
Fixed code coverage
Updated CITATION

Improved states$GW
- Fixed GW preparation script so that $stateID is coded correctly
- Added $StateNameAlt from secondary labels in parentheses
Improved states$ISD
- Updated ISD to version 2.2
- Fixed ISD preparation script so that $Begin and $End are coded correctly
Improved states$GGO
- Renamed from states$HUGGO to reflect new name of the dataset
- Simplified GGO preparation script by exporting and working on clean csv
- Fixed current states ending as 9999-12-31 (closed #85)
- Removed ~64 duplicated or overlapping records (closed #84)
- Added details on many states (closed #83, thanks @myevrard)
- Added a codebook vignette for states$GGO (closed #87)

Improved code_states()
- Now uses stringi exclusively
- Fixed Burgundy (BOU) identification in code_states() (fixed #79)
- Fixed various negative lookup bugs in regex patterns for e.g. Korea
- Added 172 new regex patterns to code_states()
- Added tests for code_states() that cover all datasets in states
- Added tests to make sure that no ISO reserved codes assigned
- Added tests to make sure that all states identified uniquely
Improved generate_states()
- Now uses stringi exclusively
- Added syllabise_states() for splitting state names into syllables
- Improved state name generation algorithm to be based off of a Markov chain of syllables
- Improved state name generation algorithm to better match the length distribution of real state names
- Added checks to avoid generating existing, duplicate, or awkward state names
- Added tests for generate_states()
Added filter_datacube() in manydata to filter the state system by a given year (closed #77)

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

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

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.

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

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.