NEWS

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countries 1.2.0 (2024-01-21)

• Added function check_countries_api to check whether connection to Countries REST API is working.
• Updated country reference table to improve matching of former Yugoslavian countries.
• Improved messages provided by country_name and match_table and added argument na_fill to replace potential NAs with the original country name.
• Updated vignettes

countries 1.1.2 (2024-01-10)

• Improving handling of API connection errors in function country_info and list_fields
• Fixing bug in quick_map occurring when plot_col is identical to one of the columns in the table countries::world

countries 1.1.1 (2023-11-07)

• Added function list_countries to obtain a list of countries
• Added function random_countries to obtain random country names
• Corrected small nomenclature mistake in the country reference list
• Added two new palettes to palettes_countries
• Updated vignettes

countries 1.0.5 (2023-10-06)

• Patch to address change in behaviour of function is.atomic

countries 1.0.4 (2023-09-24)

• Fixed bug in auto_merge that was preventing column names to be passed in by order for regular expressions.

countries 1.0.3 (2023-09-01)

• Fixed hyperlinks in for resubmission
• Eliminated references to unexported objects in documentation
• Package accepted on CRAN!!

countries 1.0

• First CRAN submission

countries 0.3

• Added function country_info() to download information about countries (e.g. capital city, currency, neighbouring countries, etc.)
• Added function list_fields() returning a list of accepted fields for country_info()
• Added function auto_merge() to quickly join multiple dataset and automatically deal with country names and time columns
• Added function auto_melt() to automatically pivot tables containing country names and years in their headers
• Added function quick_map() to easily plot coloured country maps
• Added function palettes_countries() providing access to the package's colour themes
• Added vignette on plotting chloropleth maps with quick_map and merging country data with auto_merge()
• Bug fixes

countries 0.2

• Added function is_country() to test whether a string is a country name or related to list of countries names
• Added function is_date() to test whether values are dates
• Added function is_keycol() to test whether a set of columns could be the keys of a table
• Added function find_countrycol() to automate search of columns containing country names in data frames
• Added function find_timecol() to automate search of date and/or year columns in data frames
• Added function find_keycol() to automate search of table keys in data frames
• Added functions which_min(), which_max() and which_mode() returning all the positions of vector's minimum, maximum and mode values.
• Speed improvements for the functions country_name() and match_table()
• Bug fixes
• Added vignette on data structure

countries 0.1

• Function country_name() for converting and translating country names based on a fuzzy matching approach
• Function match_table() to easily construct conversion tables with the help of fuzzy matching algorithm
• Function Mode() returns the statistical mode of a vectors (most frequent observation)
• Dataset country_reference_list containing a country names in different languages and naming conventions
• Added vignettes and documentation
• Created website for the package