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manystates 1.0.3

Package

• Improved README to reveal generated state names

Functions

• Fixed generate_states() to avoid generation failure on rare edge cases
• Improved generate_states() to avoid preposition repetitions, prepositions beginning or ending state names, and other issues
• Note that generate_states() no longer uses the Markov chain approach advertised in the previous version, but generates more realistic names overall
• Improved generate_states() to include modifying prefixes according to real-world distributions

manystates 1.0.2

Package

• Fixed DESCRIPTION Description

Functions

• Fixed lack of return documentation for code_states()

manystates 1.0.1

Package

• Fixed README and DESCRIPTION issues

manystates 1.0.0

Package

• 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

Data

• 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)

Functions

• 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)

manystates 0.3.1

Package

• Moved code_states() function from {manypkgs} to be user-facing
• Added code_states() to website
• Improved regex matches for code_states()
• Added tests for code_states()

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

• 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}

qStates 0.0.5

Package

• Fixed #38 by fixing a bug preventing data_contrast("qStates") from being run while {qStates} is also loaded in the environment.
• Updated the CSS in the package to make it consistent with other packages in the qVerse

Data

• Closed #29 by adding the ARCHIGOS database
• Closed #23 by adding import_vdem() to automatically import and consistently format the V-Dem dataset
• Closed #22 by adding import_vparty() to automatically import and consistently format the V-Party dataset
• Closed #37 by improving the way we deal with special categorical values (-66, -77, -88) in the Polity-V dataset
• Closed #36 by completing the regex table for improved text matching

qStates 0.0.4

Package

• Fixed #26 by updating list of states for code_states() function
• Fixed #30 by transforming date columns in qStates datasets to messydt class
• Closed #31 by creating qStates website
• Added vignette for working with {CShapes} and historical maps

Data

• Closed #1 by adding the Polity5 dataset
• Integrated {CShapes}
  • Closed #10 by integrating datasets on distances from {CShapes}
  • Added import_cshapes() function to import {CShapes} data
  • Added import_distlist() function to import {CShapes} distances
  • Added import_distmatrix() function to import {CShapes} distance matrices

qStates 0.0.3

Package

• Updated README to align it with other qPackages
• Added a new package logo similar to other qPackages
• Added new pull request template consistent with {qData}

Data

• Re-exported package data to reflect new testing, templates and argument changes with export_data() function in {qData}

qStates 0.0.2

Data

• Closes #17 by rerunning the new export_data() function on the states database which adds new metadata(source link and source bibliography) as well as setting the bibliography at the correct database level instead of the dataset level.
• Added .bib files in each data-raw folder with the original datasets to provide citation information.
• Added link arguments to each dataset-prepare script.

qStates 0.0.1

Package

• Created the package structure and files using qData::setup_package()
• Closed #2 by adding and updating initial documentation as CONTRIBUTING, COC, LICENSE, issue and PR templates
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package
• Added a README document that outlines main characteristics of the data package
• Fixed #15 by removing ^data$ from .RBuildignore

Data

• Closed #13 by using qData::export_data() and other functions from {qData} to form the states database from:
  • Added the Correlates of War (COW) dataset and preparations scripts, documentation
  • Closed #6 by adding the International Systems Dataset (ISD) dataset and preparations scripts
  • Closed #7 by adding the Gleditsch & Ward dataset (GW) dataset and preparations scripts
• Closed #12 by adding tests for all these datasets

Functions

• Added code_states() to extract state IDs from a character vector

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