NEWS.md

In naijR: Operations to Ease Data Analyses Specific to Nigeria

naijR 0.6.0

New Features:

• Added a new dataset states_nigeria for the States of Nigeria.
• Migrated from RGDAL-based spatial data; the {sf} package is now the main dependency.
• map_ng gained a newly documented argument plot, which hitherto was passed internally to maps::map() via ....
• Added a new function disambiguate_lga, which takes a single-element lgas object for handling the names of Local Government Areas that are shared between separate States. This function enables the (re)setting of the State attribute of such objects; this can be done interactively, where the replicated States' names are presented for selection by users.

Fixes:

• Improved on the accuracy of LGA naming in the light of spelling mistakes discovered in the earlier reference document.
• Unwanted display of dialogs when fixing LGA names on Windows OS was reversed (suggested by Laura DeCicco).

naijR 0.5.2

• Quietened a verbose warning introduced via the soon-to-be-retired spatial data packages.

naijR 0.5.1

• In nested calls with the function fix_region, the lgas constructor function does not warn if there are spelling mistakes, as this turned out to be a bit confusing when it was used. In earlier versions, warnings persisted even after fixes were applied.
• In carrying out interactive fixes, particularly of LGA spellings, the more familiar and intuitive native Windows messaging and dialog system is used. Works only on Windows machines; on Linux and MacOs, the usual messaging and interaction occurs at the R console.
• Control the size of map labels with the cex argument (passed on to maps::map.text internally, via ...).
• Handle instances where the term Abuja is used as a State (which technically it is not) and signal a warning to the user.

naijR 0.5.0

New features:

• New methods for ?InternalGenerics were introduced e.g. for c(), [, [[, na.exclude, etc.

Enhancements:

• Effectively handle mobile numbers that have common separators in them, namely whitespace, '-' or '.'.
• Repair mobile numbers where poor data entry interchanges zeros (0s) with the letter O (works for both upper and lower case).
• Repair of mobile numbers now offers optional information for users.
• Allow the use of factor input when creating objects of class regions.
• Added a new argument legend.text for map_ng using an idiom that is similar to the one used in base::barplot, thanks to observations made by @VictoriaLatham in issue #27.
• Simplified the creation of choropleth maps with 2-column data frames; one of the columns is to be a vector of valid States or Local Government Areas, and the other a factor or something coercible to one.

Bug fixes:

• map_ng accepted arguments that were not data.frames leading to unwieldy errors. It is now made sure to fail early in such cases

Deprecated:

• Arguments of map_ng - leg.x, leg.y, and leg.orient were marked for deprecation in the next minor release.

naijR 0.4.4

Bug fix:

• fix_mobile fails unexpectedly when only NA is supplied as argument. This causes practical problems when, for example, it encounters a column with only missing values.

naijR 0.4.3

• Addressed a build problem related to CRAN submission.

naijR 0.4.2

• Improved type checking for mapping functionality and better fidelity.

naijR 0.4.1

• Enable the exclusion of selected States from a choropleth map (#27).
• Cleaner output for states and lgas objects.

naijR 0.4.0

• Introduce the ability to 'manually' fix names of States or LGAs.
• Update the documentation with a new vignette.

naijR 0.3.4

• Fixed package-wide misuse of the word Nasarawa.

naijR 0.3.3

• Fixed repetitions in the output when multiple LGAs' spellings are corrected.

naijR 0.3.2

• Improved on print methods

naijR 0.3.1

• Fixed a bug that affected the proper rendering of LGA-level maps for some of the States. The approach used was to simply filter the entire data when requiring a State map, so as to reduce name clashes that occurred from synonyms amongst some of the LGAs and/or States.
• Enabled the fine-tuning of creation of lgas objects in the event that the argument provided is the name of an LGA that is synonymous with it's State (argument strict).

naijR 0.3.0

• Provide new methods for the S3 generics head and tail to work with objects that inherit from class regions.
• The S3 constructors states and lgas gain a logical argument warn to control whether or not they issue a warning when an input string does not contain an actual State/LGA.
• General improvement of the formatting of output to enhance the user experience.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the loading of LGAs from the internal data when the package is not attached to the search path i.e. invocation with naijR::lgas() was producing an error.

naijR 0.2.2

• Export S3 generic fix_region.

naijR 0.2.1

• Fixed incorrect URLs, as noted by CRAN
• Edits to output message

naijR 0.2.0

• Added a new function is_lga, which checks an object for Local Government Areas.
• Ignore, with a warning, the check for is_state when the object checked is not of type character.
• Draw maps up to LGA level

naijR 0.1.5

• Built new package website.

naijR 0.1.4

• Suppress deprecation warning for is_state when it is called internally by package function; displayed only when function is called directly.

naijR 0.1.3

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Recognise abbreviations of 'Federal Capital Territory' i.e. FCT.
• Disable error-check on character type for is_state so it can be used more effectively for functional programming constructs.

naijR documentation built on Aug. 8, 2023, 5:13 p.m.