ess_email environmental variable has been renamed to ESS_EMAIL to comply with Github Actions standardsCRAN 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.
CRAN maintenance release to add more informative message when the status code of the HTTP request of 'www.europeansocialsurvey.org' is more than 300.
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
CRAN maintenance check after release of ESS round 9.
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.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]haven to minimum package version 2.1.1read_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.set_email that didn't allow to overwrite the email once set.show_country_rounds checks if there are missing values and excludes them.import_all_cntrounds and import_country returned incorrect countries [#31]
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.
Minor release
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.
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]
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]
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]
remove_missings() together with remove_numeric_missings() and remove_character_missings() now allow you to recode the typical categories 'Not applicable', 'Don't know', etc.. into NA's. See the vignette example for more details. [#1]
Can download files in 'stata', 'spss' and 'sas' formats for all functions (both for downloading to user's directory and for reading data). [#11]
show_themes() and show_theme_rounds() now available to see which themes have been included in which rounds. [#7]
show_rounds_country() is now available to see which countries participated in which rounds [#14]
The ouput_dir argument is now set to getwd() rather than NULL as default. [#16]
When parsing country rounds from the ESS table from the website, shaded dots were being interpreted as valid rounds when in fact they're not. show_* funs new exclude shaded dots until they've been added as valid rounds
If any ess_* function can not connect to the ESS website they will return an explicit R error. [#12]
ess_all_cntrounds and ess_all_rounds were returning the directory of each of the files. Now they only return the single directory where the files where saved as a message
First release