NEWS.md

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manydata 0.9.3

Connection

• Updated call_sources() to be more flexible when gathering data from datacube documentation
• Closed #279 by updating documentation across many packages to be compatible with call_sources()
• Updated compare_dimensions() by fixing bugs related to dates and NA observations

manydata 0.9.2

Package

• Fixed the emperors data documentation issues related to lost braces with CRAN submission

manydata 0.9.1

Package

• Updated test expectations to make package compatible with the new release of {ggplot2}

Connection

• Closed #266 by adding startup messages to 'many' packages
• Closed #267 by adding links to package websites in console messages
• Closed #282 by updating all references from 'database' to 'datacube'
• Closed #293 by fixing bugs related to missing dates when using consolidate()
• Closed #294 by updating how call_sources() identify datasets within datacubes

manydata 0.9.0

Package

• Closed #259 by revising CCC package structure and updating the package cheatsheet
• Updated documentation for 'emperors' data to new style to improve visibility and transparency
• Closed #264 by removing {tibble}and {janitor} package imports in DESCRIPTION file
• Closed #276 by reviewing package vignettes
• Closed #277 by updating 'manydata-defunct' file
• Closed #284 by removing vignette and updating README to include more information on how to use the package
• Updated all references and argument from 'database' to 'datacube'

Connection

• Renamed and updated 'call_' family of functions
• Closed #250, #251, and #262 by renaming get_packages() to call_packages() and updating how the function works and look up packages, version updates, and availailabity
• Closed #269 and # by adding a call_sources() function that displays sources and variable changes for datasets in datacubes
• Closed #271 by updating the retrieve_ family of functions to call_ functions
• Closed #283 by renaming plot_releases() to call_releases
• Renamed and updated 'compare_' family of functions
• Closed #243 and #257 by creating a compare_missing() function to compare missing values in datasets in a 'many' datacube
• Closed #249 and #253 by renaming db_plot() function to compare_categories() and updating variable categories
• Closed #261 by renaming and updating other db_ functions to compare_ functions
• Closed #268 by adding compare_overlap() to help users investigate overlap for datasets within datacubes
• Closed #285 by adding compare_dimensions() and compare_ranges() to compare dimensions and ranges in datacubes

manydata 0.8.3

Connection

• Made ´network_map()´ function defunct

manydata 0.8.2

Connection

• Updated consolidate() to require two keys when joining memberships' databases
• Updated db_comp() to follow consolidation defaults for memberships' databases
• Closed #231 by adding a retrieve_texts() function to retrieve treaty texts from other 'many' packages

manydata 0.8.1

Package

• Added 'RDataTmp' files to Rbuildignore and .gitignore
• Updated data_evolution() to use inherits() instead of class() for condition comparison

manydata 0.8.0

Package

• Closed #212 by implementing package caching in GitHub actions workflows
• Closed #218 by fixing bug with GitHub actions workflows
• Closed #225 by changing the structure of datasets in "many" data packages
• Closed #240 by updating the package cheatsheet

Connection

• Closed #134 by adding a data_evolution() function to the report family of functions that gets original datasets, if available, or opens the preparation scripts, if not available
• Added 'db_profile' family of functions to visualise databases
• Closed #214 by adding db_plot() function to plot a profile of the database to facilitate comparison of matched observations across datasets
• Closed #224 by adding db_comp() function that creates a tibble of the database to facilitate comparison of matched observations across datasets
• Updated get_packages() function
• Closed #215 by making get_packages() interactive so that users can chose which branch to download
• Closed #219 by improving get_packages() printing
• Updated get_packages() and plot_releases() to use {messydates}, instead of {lubridate}, for dates coercion
• Closed #222 by adding network_map() function for plotting geographical networks
• Updated consolidate()function to make function over 20 times faster
• Closed #227 by making consolidate() ignore text related variables due to their size
• Closed #230 by making consolidate() more concise to avoid running into memory limits
• Closed #228 and #232 by replacing coalesce_compatible() for a faster approach to coalescing compatible missing observations that relies on zoo::na.locf()
• Made coalesce_compatible() function defunct

manydata 0.7.5

Package

• Removed {skimr} table from emperors database documentation
• Updated path for binaries in push release GitHub actions

manydata 0.7.4

Package

• Closed #187 by updating GitHub actions to implement package caching
• Closed #209 by removing all non-ASCII characters in package
• Closed #210 by removing {pkgdown} dependency
• Updated emperors data to contain correct date class name consistent with {messydates}

manydata 0.7.3

Connection

• Updated how the get_packages() function identifies installed packages to avoid using installed.packages()
• Updated documentation for coalesce_compatible() function to include the returns

manydata 0.7.2

• Ignored CRAN-SUBMISSION and resubmitted.

manydata 0.7.1

Package

• Updated DESCRIPTION by removing ambiguous word from title
• Updated README by correcting the URL for life cycle badge

Connection

• Updated helper functions for consolidate() to use inherits() to identify variable's class

manydata 0.7.0

Package

• Closed #194 by updating all remaining references from "qID" to "manyID"
• Updated package website
• Closed #196 by updating elements that configure website to work properly
• Updated '_pkgdown.yml' file to use bootstrap 5 template to build website

Connection

• Updated consolidate() function
• Closed #191 by making consolidate() function more concise and faster by removing redundant code lines
• Fixed dates-related warnings by changing how {messydates} package is used to resolve dates
• Updated how consolidate() substitutes missing observations with first non-missing observation from other datasets
• Closed #201 by fixing how consolidate() detects variables to be resolved to avoid ambiguous variable matching
• Closed #202 by allowing for multiple key vectors to be declared as arguments for consolidate()
• Closed #199 by adding favour() (also favor()) function that re-orders datasets within a database

manydata 0.6.0

Package

• Closed #189 by renaming package from {qData} to {manydata}
• Updated user vignette to include more examples on working with consolidate()
• Updated package website
• Closed #167 by adding a cheatsheet to README

Connection

• Updated consolidate() function
• Closed #169 by making default key variable "many_ID" instead of "qID"
• Closed #183 by adding further methods to resolve conflicts between observations:
  • Added "max" resolve argument which resolves conflicts in favor of the largest non NA value
  • Added "min" resolve argument which resolves conflicts in favor of the smallest non NA value
  • Added "mean" resolve argument which resolves conflicts in favor of the average non NA value
  • Added "median" resolve argument which resolves conflicts in favor of the median non NA value
  • Added "random" resolve argument which resolves conflicts in favor of a random non NA value
• Closed #185 by making so that users can specify resolve argument differently for different variables
• Closed #188 by adding more informative warnings for GitHub download limits for get_packages() function
• Added extraction functions to generate edgelists from agreements membership datasets
• Added extract_bilaterals() for extracting adjacency edgelist for bilateral agreements
• Added extract_multilaterals() for extracting adjacency edgelist for multilateral agreements

qData 0.5.0

Package

• Updated get_packages() to load downloaded packages
• Closed #160 by updating how report family of functions to print objects only if not assigned
• Updated user vignette for working with consolidate()
• Fixed #165 by moving interleave() to qCreate
• Closed #149 by adding a citation file
• Closed #181 by adding data for running examples and tests

Connection

• Closed #28 by adding consolidate() for collapsing a set or database of (q)dataset into a single dataset
• Closed #177 by adding coalesce_compact() to coalesce all compatible rows of a data frame
• Closed #180 by adding progress bar for coalesce_compact()
• Added tests for consolidate() and coalesce_compact()
• Renamed function for getting first non-missing value coalesce_rows()
• Added tests for coalesce_rows()

qData 0.4.0

Package

• Separated {qData} into two packages, {qData} for users and {qCreate} for developers
• Moved setup_package() and related functions to {qCreate}
• Moved import_data() and related functions to {qCreate}
• Moved export_data() and related functions to {qCreate}
• Moved plot_releases() to {migraph}

Connection

• Closed #137 by making data_contrast() and data_source() return exportable objects

qData 0.3.5

Connection

• Updated get_packages() function
• Fixed bug with dates in get_packages() by changing dependencies to {lubridate}
• Updated formatting of the returned tibble to display more clearly the information on qPackages
• Fixed #144 by substituting NA where a listed qPackage is not installed locally

qData 0.3.4

Package

• Fixed #128 by suppressing issues with warnings on pkgdown website
• Updated contributor and user vignettes for new package changes

Collection

• Updated setup_package() to make it more intuitive and precise for users
• Closed #127 by updating the form in which author arguments are taken in setup_package()
• Added role argument to setup_package() to make more precise
• Closed #139 by reducing file overhead generated by setup_package()
• Simplified setup_package() to be less verbose
• Renamed new_author() function to add_author() for naming consistency
• Closed #140 by fixing bug with add_author()
• Fixed #121 by allowing add_author() to treat multiple comments
• Updated documentation for setup_package() and add_author()

Correction

• Updated standardise_dates() to simplify function and testing
• Closed #110 by simplifying helper functions and removing redundancy in standardise_dates()
• Closed #108 by simplifying tests and removing redundancy for standardise_dates()

Connection

• Divided, updated and renamed report_data()
• Closed #131 by dividing report_data() into data_source() and data_contrast() functions
• Closed #104 by allowing users to select multiple datasets with data_contrast()
• Closed #105 by allowing for multiple databases to display in a package with data_contrast()
• Fixed #111 by removing tests for outdated report_data() function

qData 0.3.3

Package

• Closed #122 by setting package logo to the correct aspect ratio

Collection

• Updated setup_package() to make it easier to set up collaborative qPackages
• Closed #106 by making setup_package() accept more than two authors as arguments
• Closed #119 by updating setup_package() function so that it adds LICENSE file to new qPackages
• Closed #90 by adding a new_author() function that adds new package contributors to description file
• Closed #115 by updating README templates for new qPackages to include more sections

Correction

• Closed #116 by adding more tests for new qPackage templates for standardizing NA formats

Connection

• Updated get_packages() to make it easier to install globalgov qPackages
• Fixed #117 by making the get_packages() work with package name only for qPackages part of the globalgov organization
• Closed #79 by updating get_packages() to accept listed number for package as arguments
• Closed #103 by adding GitHub lookup for depends() function
• Updated user and developer vignettes to be compatible with these changes

qData 0.3.2

Package

• Replaced logo with new 'black box' hex
• Added open graph image to GitHub account
• Closed #83 by improving CII best practices score
• Added depends() for loading and, if necessary, installing CRAN packages
• Added plot_releases() function that visualises historical milestones/releases for GitHub repositories
• Updated setup_package() function by removing license lines in the codes
• Fixed #89 by adding different description templates depending on the number of authors declared in setup_package()
• Added 'dtc' contributor type in the DESCRIPTION file

Collection

• Updated import_data() to accept .RData files

Correction

• Updated and fixed bugs with standardise_dates() function and tests
• Closed #73 standardise_dates() function by using lubridate::as_date() in place of anytime::anydate() to correctly treat historical BC and AD dates
• Fixed #95 by simplifying standardise_dates() to make sure it works with all types of date variables
• Closed #77 and #93 by devolving standardise_dates() into various helper functions
• Updated export_data() to better document new database and dataset structure
• Documentation generated by export_data() references the newly created report_data() function to generate metadata dataframes at the desired level (Package, Database, Dataset)
• Closed #76 by adding some smart documentation updates to export_data()
• Closed #92 by tweaking export_data() to document datasets at the database level
• Closed #94 by adding a bibliographic attribute to each dataset with export_data()
• Fixed #63 and #87 by setting up tests templates for the different types of database created
• Added retain() to retain chosen objects in the environment, removing all other variables

Connection

• Closed #78 by creating report_data() function that displays information on the data within a qPackage

qData 0.3.1

Package

• Closed #81 by changing description of the Connecting data section to include export_data() specificities
• Closed #85 by deleting the argument in the function use_ccby_license(name = packageAuthor) in the description of the setup_package() function
• Corrected the typing error found in "develop" vignette
• Corrected styling issues in texts (delete double space in files)
• Updated the description of the export_data() function to its new version including database name as a string

qData 0.3.0

Package

• Changed package name from qDatr to qData
• Created a hex logo for qData
• Closed #32 by setting up a more informative README document
• Added codefactor badge
• Added CII badge, in progress
• Closed #69 by creating a vignette for users working with qData
• Closed #67 by creating a vignette for developers interested in contributing to the qData ecosystem
• Added pkgdown workflow for updating the website upon release

Collection

• Updated import_data() by suggesting upper case letters for dataset names and lower case letters for database names
• Now complains if pointed to unrecognised data format

Correction

• Closed #70 by updating stadardise_dates() so that extreme future dates are standardised
• Updated standardise_dates() to accept multiple variable dates as inputs and it standardises separators
• Updated standardise_dates() to be more efficient when dealing with different date formats
• Deprecates recent() in favour of standardise_dates()
• Updates export_data() by making it save datasets as named list elements in a database
• Updates exported test templates for data to test for datasets within databases

Connection

• Updates get_packages() function to:
• Correctly identify latest release and installed versions
• Identify registered contributors

qDatr 0.2.1

Package

• Fixed #61 by adding tests for setup_package() and import_data()
• Closed #50 by making sure workflow templates are created in the proper folder with setup_package()

Correction

• Closed #62 by creating a function which vectorises dates and cleans and standardizes diverse date formats, standardise_dates()
• Closed #55 by deprecating rearrange() function in favour of dplyr::relocate()
• Closed #65 by correcting issues with the path call in export_data() function
• Ensures consistency for path calls across qData functions

Connection

• Closed #64 by creating the get_packages() function which displays other packages, and some information about these packages, in the qData ecosystem. The function serves as a wrapper for downloading qPackages from GitHub.

qDatr 0.2.0

Package

• Updated pushrelease.yml to upload all assets individually to release
• ((Tests for following functions on hold...))

Collection

• Renamed create_qPackage() to setup_package()
• Now establishes main testing framework
• Opens fewer files but is more verbose
• Closed #51 by trimming dependencies from qPackage-DESC template
• Fixed bug in qPackage-DESC that names weren't strings
• Renamed use_qData_raw() to import_data()
• Closed #49 with path argument or selector
• Added delete_original argument (default = FALSE)
• Closed #58 by extracting file type information from path and adding it and path to preparation template

Connection

• Renamed use_qData() to export_data()
• Avoided reliance on usethis::use_data()
• Fixed bug where it wasn't selecting object correctly
• Closed #57 by passing on object information into the documentation template (now qData-doc.R)
• Adapted test template so that object name is passed forward

qDatr 0.1.0

Package

• Updated CONTRIBUTING
• Added README.Rmd render to pushrelease workflow

Collection

• Closed #47 by adding qtemplate() function for finding and rendering templates
• Closed #44 by adding create_qPackage() that establishes a {qData} consistent package framework
• Fixed #42 by drawing information from DESCRIPTION where possible
• Added DESCRIPTION template
• Added README template
• Added COC template
• Added CONTRIBUTING template
• Added PR and issue templates for bugs and features
• Added workflow templates for push-release, pr-checks, and pr-commands
• Closed #48 by adding use_qData_raw() for setting up data cleaning and wrangling
• Added template for importing, cleaning and exporting raw data

Correction

• Closed #24 by adding repaint() for filling in missing data by lookup
• Added recent() for sensible centuries for dates

Connection

• Closed #45 by adding use_qData() for setting up tests, documentation, and lazy-loading of cleaned data
• Added template for documenting cleaned data
• Added template for testing cleaned data

qDatr 0.0.4

Collection

• Closed #25 by adding create_qpackage()
• Fixed 'pushrelease.yml' postfix bug

Correction

• Closed #26 by adding interleave()
• Closed #23 by adding resequence()
• Closed #30 by adding recollect()

qDatr 0.0.3

Package

• Closed #18 by setting up {lintr}, {goodpractice}, and {spelling} in prchecks.yml

Correction

• Closed #29 by adding rearrange()
• Closed #31 by adding reunite()

qDatr 0.0.2

Package

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

Correction

• Added transmutate() for merging variables

qDatr 0.0.1

Package

• Package set-up

Correction

• Added entitle() for standardising treaty titles, etc.

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