NEWS.md

In rOpenGov/pollstR: Client for the HuffPost Pollster API

pollstR 2.0.1

• Remove tidyverse from Suggests:. Only suggest necessary packages.

pollstR 2.0.0

• This is complete rewrite of the package for new Pollster API v2. It is new API and backwards incompatible with previous verions of PollstR.
• Added pkgdown documentation
• Converted NEWS to NEWS.md

pollstR 1.5.0

• pollster_chart_data and pollster_house_effects return data frames without additional pollster specific classes.
• Fix typos in documentation

pollstR 1.4.0

• Renamed functions to start with pollster_ since I kept misstyping them. However, the old function names beginnning with pollstr_ still work.
• Renamed the classes returned by pollster functions to start with pollster_.
• Added function pollster_chart_data which returns all polls related to a chart.
• Added function pollster_house_effects which returns the pollster house effects for a chart.
• Pollster API changes: deprecated topic argument in pollstr_polls (#11); added question argument to pollstr_polls (#12)
• Edited and rewrote much of the vignette. The new example uses the 2016 General Election between Clinton and Trump.
• Miscellaneous non-user facing rewrites to code to make it more robust.

pollstR 1.3.0

• Add page and max_pages arguments to pollster_charts function since the charts method in the API now takes a page argument. #10

pollstR 1.2.2

• Add Drew Linzer as original author
• Bugfix: Removes polls where questions are incomplete so as not to cause errors. #8 (Thanks @olliemcdonald)

pollstR 1.2.1

• Bugfix: fix R CMD check notes due to change in how it handles non-base default packages: http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/06/29#n2015-06-29

pollstR1.2.0

• Add showall argument to pollstr_charts and pollstr_polls

pollstR 1.1.1

• Bugfix: ensure that character vectors do not get converted to factors
• Added section in documentation on errors in functions

pollstR 1.1.0

• Bugfix: Update to new API # pollstR polls.
• Move testthat tests to inst

pollstR 1.0.2

• Bugfix: fix test failures due to API change.
• Remove tests brittle to API changes so fewer CRAN check failures

pollstR 1.0.1

• Bugfix: did not convert some election date fields

pollstR 1.0.0

• submit to CRAN

pollstR 0.2.0

Merge with http://github.com/jrnold/pollster. This is a complete rewrite of the client.

• getchart replaced with pollstr_charts. Returns class pollstr_charts.
• getchart replaced with pollstr_chart. Returns class pollstr_chart.
• getpolls replaced with pollstr_polls. Returns class pollstr_polls.
• xml API access no longer available.

# pollstR 0.1

• Initial package release

rOpenGov/pollstR documentation built on May 26, 2019, 8:48 p.m.