Changelog
Source:NEWS.md
stevedata 1.4.0
Additions include:
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eu_ua_fta24
: A data set of the outcome of a roll-call vote in the European Union on extending the emergency free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. These data are useful for teaching around character/string manipulation and simple data summary around a simple case where states bordering Ukraine were often in greater opposition to the measure for reasons implied by standard arguments of who wants protection from foreign goods. -
chile88
: A data set on voting intentions in a plebiscite in Chile in 1988. This plebiscite concerned the future of the military junta under Augusto Pinochet.
Updates include:
- Assorted documentation updates.
stevedata 1.3.0
CRAN release: 2024-05-16
Additions include:
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USFAHR
: a data set on economic aid allocation by the United States in assorted years. These data are useful for teaching about linear models, censored/limited data, so-called “corner solutions”, and potentially mixed effects models. It’s also useful for an illustrative debate about how much the United States has ever seriously considered human rights records in allocating foreign aid.
Updates include:
- Assorted documentation updates.
stevedata 1.2.0
CRAN release: 2024-04-11
Additions include:
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african_coups
: a data set on the correlates of African coups from 1960 to 1975 (1982). Useful for replication of an old debate, and for pedagogical instruction about linear models (especially about interactions). -
DCE12
: a data set on domestic conflict events in 2012, useful for teaching about regression of count data. -
DAPO
: a data set on the determinants of public opinion in seven Arab countries. -
EBJ
: a data set on the economic benefits of post-conflict justice institutions. -
states_war
: a data set on state performance in inter-state war.
Updates include:
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DJIA
has more recent data and fixes an unfortunate gap from 1985 to 1992. - Assorted documentation updates.
stevedata 1.1.0
CRAN release: 2023-10-25
Additions include:
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GHR04
: a data set to replicate Ghobarah et al.’s (2004) analysis on the correlates of comparative public health. -
Lipset59
: a data set for assessing the relationship between democracy and economic development, much like Lipset (1959) famously did. -
scb_regions
: a data set that can identify territorial units with more intuitive names as given by the Central Bureau of Statistics (“Statistiska centralbyrån”) in Sweden.
stevedata 1.0.0
CRAN release: 2023-05-30
Additions include:
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PRDEG
: a replication data set on property rights, democracy, and economic growth. -
OODTPT
: a replication data set on democracy and trade policy. -
wbd_example
: a simple panel data set of some World Bank indicators, useful for explaining merge issues in panel data. -
eurostat_codes
: a simple data set on Eurostat country codes and country groupings.
Updates include:
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ODGI
runs through 2022. -
turnips
has new turnip prices. Also includes a “bug” fix for me lazily forgetting it’s 2023 now.turnips
now also retired as an ongoing data collection project. -
coffee_imports
is now a panel, based on the same underlying data. It has both member and non-member data, though that much may involve some light cleaning/recoding. -
thatcher_approval
no longer has a year column, though you could easily get that from thedate
column. -
LOTI
is updated through 2022. - Assorted documentation clarifications/fixes.
stevedata 0.9.0
CRAN release: 2023-01-19
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. Additions include:
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commodity_prices
: a data set on World Bank commodity prices data, which will also supplant thecoffee_price
andsugar_price
data. -
ESS10NO
: a data set on whether Norwegians would vote to join the European Union or not, cobbled from the European Social Survey, and useful for illustrating survey designs. -
PPGE
: a panel model on select rich countries that can be used for quasi-replicating Garrett’s (1998) argument about how well labor unions have stemmed globalization’s effect on slashing government spending.
Updates include:
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ukg_eeri
has more current data, and the value column has been changed to numeric. -
pwt_sample
now has Norway. Sorry for the original oversight, Norway. We still cool? -
turnips
has new turnips prices. I don’t know why I keep doing this. Force of habit.
stevedata 0.8.0
CRAN release: 2022-11-18
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. Additions include:
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fakeHappiness
: a (fake) data set to illustrate a curvilinear effect. Application: the so-called U-shaped relationship between age and happiness. -
inglehart03
: a data set cobbled from Inglehart’s (2003) “How Solid is Mass Support for Democracy—And How Can We Measure It?” in PS: Political Science & Politics. These would include the information as presented in the article itself as opposed to the underlying (raw) data as one might get them in an earlier version of the World/European Survey. -
sweden_counties
: a data set on identifiers for the counties of Sweden.
Updates include:
- new turnip prices in
turnips
. - newer economic data in
pwt_sample
. - Changed file compression of files. where appropriate.
stevedata 0.7.0
CRAN release: 2022-04-02
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. Additions include:
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SBCD
: a data set on banking, currency, and debt (restructuring) crises from 1970 to 2017. -
thatcher_approval
: a data set on satisfaction/dissatisfaction ratings of the government, the prime minister, and the leader of the opposition during the entirety of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as prime minister.
Updates include:
- new turnip prices in
turnips
. - updated
DJIA
data - revised
steves_clothes
data.
stevedata 0.6.0
CRAN release: 2021-11-13
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. Additions include:
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voteincome
: a data set on turnout and demographic data, admittedly stolen from the Zelig project.
Updates include:
- adjusted/streamlined Clemson temperature data in
clemson_temps
. - new turnip prices in
turnips
.
stevedata 0.5.0
CRAN release: 2021-09-08
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. Additions include:
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wvs_usa_educat
: a data set on how World Values Survey codes education categories for the United States across waves of its data set. -
wvs_usa_regions
: a data set on how World Values Survey codes region categories for the United States across waves of its data set.
Updates include:
- new turnip prices in
turnips
. - “zap” formats in
af_crime93
. - new sulfur dioxide emission data in
so2concentrations
- new sugar price data in
sugar_price
. - new Clemson temperature data in
clemson_temps
. - new coffee data in
coffee_imports
andcoffee_price
.
stevedata 0.4.0
CRAN release: 2021-04-21
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. These include:
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anes_partytherms
: a data frame on thermometer ratings for the Democratic party, Republican party, and thermometer indices of both in the ANES (1978-2012) -
turnips
: a data frame on turnip prices in Animal Crossing. This will be here, likely, as long as I can commit to doing this.
Examples may have been updated for greater clarity, especially as this release comes with an accompanying site generated by pkgdown. The vignette has been updated as well to account for this.
The release of this package was accelerated by a note from Brian Ripley that R users should anticipate decreased support for direct links by FTP in their preferred web browsers. Accordingly, these links should be changed or scrubbed. This concerned the co2emissions
data and documentation. I removed those FTP links. There were no http:// or https:// corollaries. However, the bibliography is still sufficiently informative.
stevedata 0.3.1
CRAN release: 2021-04-07
The newest release adds a few variables to election_turnout
(with the idea of ultimately phasing out this data set). More importantly, CRAN flagged this as a package with unnecessarily large “LazyData” data sets. It makes the change implored by Brian Ripley in the DESCRIPTION file.
stevedata 0.3.0
CRAN release: 2021-02-27
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. These include:
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af_crime93
: a data frame on crime for 50 states (+ DC) from around 1993. The data feature a known case of heteroskedasticity. -
anes_vote84
: a data frame on individual-level voter turnout in the 1984 general election. Data come from the 1984 time-series of the American National election Studies. -
eight_schools
: a data frame on the effect of special SAT coaching programs in the famous “eight schools” that we all get when learning Bayesian stuff. -
min_wage
: a data frame on federal minimum wage rates since 1938.
Updates include:
- Add
wkrstat
variable togss_wages
. - Updating
Presidents
because Trump’s tenure is mercifully over.
stevedata 0.2.0
CRAN release: 2020-12-05
The newest release will have some new and updated data sets. These include:
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fakeAPI
: a data frame on academic performance for 10,000 schools in a hypothetical territorial unit. Note: data are fake, but useful for survey-type analyses. -
nesarc_drinkspd
: a data frame on the self-reported drink habits of Americans from a survey in 2001-2002. -
SCP16
: a data frame of observations about the South Carolina party primaries from 2016. -
ukg_eeri
: a data frame on real effective exchange rates for the United Kingdom from 1990 to the most recent year. -
usa_migration
: a data frame on inbound/outbound migration patterns for the United States from 1990 to 2017. -
usa_tradegdp
: a data frame on yearly trade and GDP in the United States from 1790 to 2018. -
wvs_usa_abortion
: a data frame on opinions about abortion across six waves of the World Values Survey in the United States.