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In saschagobel/legislatoR: Interface to the Comparative Legislators Database

legislatoR 1.1

Data for Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Scotland, and USA updated
Data for Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Turkey newly added
All data moved to Harvard Dataverse

legislatoR 1.0

All legislative periods of Spain's Congreso de los Diputados added to the database (14 in total).
Ongoing session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (27th) and concluded session updated (26th).
Ongoing session of the Canadian House of Commons added to the database (43th) and concluded session updated (42th).
Ongoing session of the Irish Dáil added to the database (33th) and concluded session updated (32th).
Ongoing session of the UK House of Commons added to the database (58th) and concluded session updated (57th).
Irish Dáil data integrated with Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland.
Czech Poslanecka Snemovna data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
UK House of Commons data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
Spanish Congreso de los Diputados data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
Austrian Nationalrat data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
Daily Wikipedia page traffic now goes back to December 2007 (except for the US House, where file storage restrictions currently limit traffic to range back to July 2009 only).
New cld_content() function that offers a quick overview of the CLD's scope and valid three-letter country codes, and helps to conventiently loop/map over legislatures and sessions.
"Introducing legislatoR" Vignette added.
Now available via CRAN
New Logo/Hexsticker.

legislatoR 0.2.0

1st to 37th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (37 in total).
Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the French Assemblée.
German Bundestag data integrated with BTVote and ParlSpeech data.
UK House of Commons data integrated with Eggers and Spirling british political development database (starting from 38th session).
United States House and Senate data integrated with Voteview and congressional bills project data.
Missing Twitter handles added for the Austrian Nationalrat, Czech Poslanecka Snemovna, French Assemblée, German Bundestag, Irish Dail, UK House of Commons, and United States House and Senate (841 in total).
Missing religious affilition added for United States House and Senate and Canada's House of Commons.
Missing ethnicity added for Canada and UK's House of Commons.

legislatoR 0.1.0

Changed some function calls: get_facial is now get_portrait and get_occupation is now get_profession.
Changed valid legislature arguments for get_ functions. Full legislature names are no longer accepted as legislature codes. Instead, three-letter country codes such as aut, can, cze, fra, deu, irl, sco, gbr, usa_house, usa_senate must be used.
All legislative periods of Canada's House of Commons added to the database (42 in total).
All legislative periods of Czech Republic's Poslanecka Snemovna added to the database (8 in total).
All legislative periods of Scotland's Parliament added to the database (5 in total).
38th - 57th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (20 in total).
Current session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (26th).
Current session of the German Bundestag added to the database (19th).
Current session of the French Assemblée added to the database (15th).
Current session of the United States House of representatives added to the database (116th).
Current session of the United States Senate added to the database (116th).
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes added to all core datasets.
Start- and end date of sessions added to all political datasets.
Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the Irish Dáil.
Error in United States Senate Wikipedia revision records corrected.
Missing religious affiliation added from 1st to 18th German Bundestag using official data.
Erroneous information on United States Senate and House members' period of service corrected.
Additional variables on government/opposition status and leader positions added to all sessions of the Canadian House of Commons and United States Congress.
Correction and alignment of party names across legislative periods for all parliaments.
Emotion estimates removed from the portraits dataset.