NEWS

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psData 0.2.2.9000

• Update broken API links.
• Use readxl instead of xlsx to avoid dependency on rJava.

psData 0.2.2 (2016-09-03)

• Remove inactive vignettes. Dynamic documentation in README.

psData 0.2.1

• Updated URL for PolityGet to 2015 version. Thanks to Xavier Fernández i Marín.

psData 0.1.6

• More informative drop message when converting country IDs. Thank you to Anh Le.

psData 0.1.5

• A number of getters now rely on import from rio.

• Download Democracy and Dictatorship data set with DDGet. Thank you to Anh Le.

psData 0.1.4

CountryID distinguishes between Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus

psData 0.1.3

• Added IMF_WBGet to download Axel Dreher's data set of IMF programs and World Bank projects (1970-2011).

• Improved message control for RRCrisisGet.

• Minor documentation improvements.

psData 0.1.2 (2014-02-23)

• Added RRCrisisGet for gathering and cleaning Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) financial crisis dummy variables.

psData 0.1.1

• Added ability to report and inspect duplicated values created by standardising country names in CountryID, PolityGet, and DpiGet. Also added a choice to these variables of whether or not to standardise country names along with IDs.

psData 0.1

First development version of psData. The package includes the following main functions:

• DpiGet

• PolityGet

• Wincreator