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manydata 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2025-06-03

Connection

  • Fixed global variables in several resolve_*() functions

manydata 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2025-03-21

Package

  • Updated website

Connection

  • resolve_*() functions now have a parameter indicating whether missing values should be included; unlike base R, by default missing values are excluded
  • Restored resolve_mean()
  • Restored resolve_median()
  • Added resolve_mode() for retaining the most common values
  • Added resolve_consensus() for retaining only values where there are no conflicts

manydata 1.0.0

Package

  • Updated GitHub checks and release actions
  • Fixes to URLs
  • Updated website
  • Improved ease of operation by making cli, dplyr, and messydates Depends
  • Dropped usethis Suggest

Collection

  • Updated emperors dataset
    • Using zero-padded messydates
    • Added citation prompts
    • Datasets capitalised:
      • emperors$Wikipedia
      • emperors$UNRV
      • emperors$Britannica
    • Fixed non-unique IDs bugs
    • Fixed inc

Calling

Connection

  • Improved pluck()
    • Function now wraps dplyr::pluck() but adds a citation prompt
  • Improved consolidate()
    • Improved useability with cli progress messages and success alerts
    • Improved speed using dtplyr in place of dplyr::full_join() (closes #288)
      • duckplyr considered: faster, but couldn’t handle mdate class
      • collapse considered: even faster, but inconsistent output
    • Improved compatibility by converting ‘rows’ argument to ‘join’ (breaking)
      • “all” becomes “inner”
      • “any” becomes “full”
      • “favour” becomes “left”
    • Fixed being passed a single dataset
    • Prompts users to cite datasets (closes #280)
    • Fixed bug in ‘resolve’ argument, named ‘resolve’ vector no longer has to be same length as variables
    • Dropped ‘cols’ argument
  • Updated tests for consolidate() to use new ‘join’ argument
    • testthat tests use cli on quiet mode
  • Updated resolve_coalesce() for coalescing (taking first non-NA value)
  • Updated resolve_random() for returning random values sampling from those available
  • Updated resolve_min() and resolve_max() for returning min or max values
  • Added resolve_unite() for returning all possible values as a set
  • Added resolve_precision() for returning most precise values available (closes #265)
    • Added precision.numeric() to return most significant figures
    • Added precision.character() to return most characters
  • Dropped resolve_median() and resolve_mean() as uncommon choices
  • Dropped resolve_multiple() in favour of always using more flexible for loop
  • Dropped favour() in favour of left joins and coalesces
  • Dropped coalesce_rows() as no longer necessary

manydata 0.9.3

CRAN release: 2024-05-06

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

CRAN release: 2024-02-22

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 tibbleand 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

manydata 0.8.3

CRAN release: 2023-06-15

Connection

  • Made ´network_map()´ function defunct

manydata 0.8.2

CRAN release: 2022-11-19

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

CRAN release: 2022-11-11

Package

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 #222 by adding network_map() function for plotting geographical networks
  • Updated consolidate()function to make function over 20 times faster

manydata 0.7.5

CRAN release: 2022-06-07

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

CRAN release: 2022-04-01

Connection

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

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