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essurvey 1.0.8.9999

essurvey 1.0.8

CRAN release: 2022-01-09

  • Fixes URL creation bug (#53)

essurvey 1.0.7

CRAN release: 2021-03-22

  • CRAN maintenance release. All vignettes are now precompiled to avoid errors when the ESS website breaks for some reason.
  • ess_email environmental variable has been renamed to ESS_EMAIL to comply with Github Actions standards

essurvey 1.0.6

CRAN release: 2021-01-27

  • CRAN maintenance release to fix Solaris warnings Warning in engine$weave(file, quiet = quiet, encoding = enc) : Pandoc (>= 1.12.3) and/or pandoc-citeproc not available. Falling back to R Markdown v1 on CRAN. Tested on Rhub and all passes OK, notifying CRAN.

  • Removes automatic citation message when loading package. It’s actually annoying.

essurvey 1.0.5

CRAN release: 2019-12-11

CRAN maintenance release to add more informative message when the status code of the HTTP request of ‘www.europeansocialsurvey.org’ is more than 300.

Minor changes

All tests/examples are now excluded from running on CRAN based on the warning from Brian Ripley:

‘Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available (and not give a check warning nor error).’

They are all forced to run on Travis and Appveyor and this is made clear on the cran-comments.md

essurvey 1.0.4

CRAN release: 2019-11-04

CRAN maintenance check after release of ESS round 9.

essurvey 1.0.3

CRAN release: 2019-10-15

Breaking changes

  • If you don’t know which format is available for a round/country, import_* and download_* functions now accept a NULL argument which runs through 'stata', 'spss' and 'sas' formats automatically. By default, import_* functions have now format set to NULL to automatically try the three different formats. This breaks backward dependency but only slightly where it had ‘stata’ set as default.

New features

  • Users can now download SDDF (weight data) for each country/round combination of files. Functions show_sddf_cntrounds, import_sddf_country and download_sddf_country are now introduced. For technical purposes, show_sddf_cntrounds needs for the user to have set their registered ESS email with set_email. [#9]

Minor changes

Internal

  • read_format_data now tries to read data using haven but falls backs to foreign in case there’s an error. This should only work for SDDF data [#38].
  • read_format_data and read_sddf_data now always return a list. Checking the length of data to return a data frame now happens within each import_* function.

Bug fixes

  • Removes an unnecessary if statement in set_email that didn’t allow to overwrite the email once set.

essurvey 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2018-08-23

Minor changes

  • show_country_rounds checks if there are missing values and excludes them.

Breaking changes

import_all_cntrounds and import_country returned incorrect countries [#31]

essurvey 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2018-06-02

Minor changes

  • ess_email is now checked that it is not "" because it wasn’t raising an error before.

  • Removes the round argument from import_all_cntrounds because it was a mistake. It already grabs the rounds internally.

essurvey 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2018-06-02

Minor release

  • Fixes test that checks the number of rounds that each country has. This test was a mistake because the rounds will change as time passes by and precise country rounds shouldn’t be tested.

essurvey 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2018-04-06

The ess package has been renamed to essurvey for a name conflict with Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS). See R-pkg mailing list, the post related to the release of ess-0-0-1.

Breaking changes

  • ess_rounds and ess_all_rounds are deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Use import_rounds instead [#22]

  • ess_country and ess_all_cntrounds are deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Use import_countries instead [#22]

  • The your_email argument name of ess_* functions has be changed to ess_email [#23]

New features

  • import_rounds, import_all_rounds and download_rounds have been introduced as replacements of ess_rounds and ess_all_rounds. Same changes were repeated for ess_country and ess_all_cntrounds [#22]

  • set_email to set your email as environmental variable rather than write it in each call [#23]

  • All requests to the ESS website are now done through HTTPS rather than HTTP [#24]

  • Add package level documentation [#20]

Minor changes

  • ess_email had no default value but now has NULL as default [#23]

  • The format argument is now checked through match.arg rather than manual check [#25]