Several small fixes.
- Manually add a "states-packge" alias for the package doc since roxygen2 does not do this by default anymore.
- Switch from the deprecated
ggplot2::aes_string()
toggplot2::aes()
+ the.data
pronoun inplot_missing()
. - Fix a dplyr join warning in
state_panel()
due to the new "relationship" argument. - Update old URLs in README and other documentation.
- Strip readr "spec" attribute from the cowstates and gwstates data. They are both now plain data frames with no attributes. (#22)
- Expand list of short country names in
prettyc()
, e.g. instead of "Belarus (Byelorussia)", just "Belarus". - Move to testthat 3rd edition (3e).
all.equal()
in R 4.1.x (R-devel at this point) will check environments for equivalence as well. This breaks one test since 2e testthat relies onall.equal()
forexpect_equal()
. Moving to testthat 3e fixes this bug. (#26)
- Although the original COW state list does not distinguish micro-states, like the G&W list does, the
cowstates
data now has a microstates coding derived from the G&W coding (#24). This makes it easier, for example, to filter out micro-states from a state panel dataset. - In the gwstates and cowstates data, the "iso3c" columns have been renamed to "gwn" and "cown", as they are not in fact ISO 3-character country abbreviations (#19).
- plot_missing()'s "space" argument has been renamed "ccode".
- id_date_sequence() now works with integer years, there is no need to convert them to Date class anymore (#20).
state_panel()
has further improved support for input shortcuts (#3):
- Accepted formats for the "start" and "end" arguments now include 2006, "2006", "2000-06", and "2006-06-01". See
parse_date()
for details. - The implied time period is now also inferred from shortcut input when "by" is left at the new default of NULL.
- The "partial" option has gained new "first" and "last" values that also support shortcut input. Previously a shortcut input like 2006 could only be used with the "any" partial option, and to get country-years for states that were independent on the first day of a year one had to use
state_panel("YYYY-01-01", partial = "exact", ...)
. This can now instead be done withstate_panel(2006, partial = "first", ...)
.
- Added
country_names()
to translate country codes to country names andprettyc()
to shorten some of the longer country names, like "Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of". - Updated vignette on G&W and COW differences to take into account when trying to translate between codes.
- Added
compare()
helper to compare two statelist data frames prior to merging. - Added
parse_date()
to handle more flexible "start" and "end" date input (#12).
- fixed a misspelled country name, "Rumania" to "Romania"
- Added option to use simpler input when generating a yearly panel, i.e.
state_panel(2001, 2005)
instead ofstate_panel("2001-01-01", "2005-01-01", by = "year", partial = "any")
. - Changed sfind() so that it ignores capitalization and treats character numbers as numbers. These pairs of queries now produce the same results, unlike before:
- "Gabon" and "gabon",
- 260 and "260"
- Changes in plot_missing() and missing_info():
- make "data" the first argument and "x" the second argument so that it works nicer in pipes.
- add more intelligent defaults so that not all arguments have to be explicitly specified.
- rename the "time_unit" argument to "period".
- added "partial" argument, it works the same as in
state_panel()
.
- Fixed plot_missing() and missing_info() error when "data" is a tibble ("tbl_df").
plot_missing
improvements: examples with Polity data, added askip_labels
option that will plot every n-th label for countries instead of all labels to avoid overplotting on the y-axis. The latter is inspired by https://github.com/xuyiqing/panelView.- Added Polity combined score as example data set.
- Fixed encoding issue for
gwstates$country_names
like Cote d'Ivoire and Wüttemberg.
- Initial version on CRAN.
- Refactor
state_panel
and add a partial option to allow including partial state-periods (as opposed to the default which is based on the exact start date, for all period resolutions in "by"). - Rework
plot_missing
: fix a bug that would leave out independent states with no cases in the input data; addmissing_info
function that generates the data underlying the plots. - Add
pkgdown
website forstates
package documentation.
- Initial version on Github.
- Added a
NEWS.md
file to track changes to the package.