Changes in version 1.2.2 (2025-06-14)                  

  - Patch to fix bug in unit tests due to changes in ggplot2 package.

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2025-02-22)                  

  - Fixed bug preventing connection to the countries REST API.

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 1.0.5 (2023-10-06)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 1.0.3 (2023-09-01)                  

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

                         Changes in version 1.0                         

  - First CRAN submission

                         Changes in version 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

                         Changes in version 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

                         Changes in version 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