News

eurostat 3.3.1

• The label_eurostat() has new countrycode and countrycode_nomatch arguments to label with countrycode package and custom_dic argument to add custom dictionary.

• Vignette updated

eurostat 3.2.3

Minor features

• dplyr moved from Dependencies to Imports
• curl removed from Imports
• solved geospatial map issues
• eurostat_url moved to options

eurostat 3.2.1

Major updates

• Improved support for sf in map visualization

Minor features

• data/ generation script in data-raw/ updated to make all data reproducible

Bug fixes

• Typo corrected from Cisco to Gisco

eurostat 3.1.5

Minor features

• Added new example data set to reduce repeated downloads from eurostat service

• Now label_eurostat() gives always an error by default, if labelling introduces duplicated labels. A new fix_duplicated argument is add to fix duplicated labels automatically. (#79, #90)

• Shrinked the package tarball size

Bug fixes

• Modified tutorial to accommodate the CRAN error

• Fixed cut_to_classes to generate unique breaks

eurostat 3.1.1

R Journal submission

• Release version associated with the R Journal manuscript 2017 final version
• Git release added with Zenodo DOI

Minor features

• Changed maintainer email address from louhos to leo
• Added ./docs/ (automated package website generated with pkgdown)
• Expanded unit tests
• Gitter badge added to README
• Added ./revdep/ to check possible reverse dependencies automatically
• Cheat sheet added

Bug fixes

• search_eurostat() accepts new argument fixed: if TRUE (default), pattern provided will used as is; if FALSE, pattern will be interpreted as a true regex pattern.
• Augmented the list of Suggested packages in the DESCRIPTION file, including the Cairo package (#70)
• Updated the journal manuscript based on reviewer feedback

eurostat 2.2.20001

• Development version opened

eurostat 2.2.1

• Fixed canonical cran url in README

eurostat 2.1.1

• The complete package now using tibbles
• Rare encoding issues circumvented (#55)
• Improved functionality within firewall-protected systems (#63)

eurostat 2.0

• The get_eurostat() returns tibbles (#52)
• The get_eurostat_dic() and get_eurostat_toc() return tibbles
• Now read_tsv() is used instead of read.csv() (#29)

eurostat 1.2.27

• Calls to extract_numeric are replaced by as.numeric (#60)
• The column 'flags' is not being labelled even if type = "label" (#61)

eurostat 1.2.22

• The European Commission and the Eurostat generally uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL (not GR) is used to represent Greece, and UK (not GB) is used to represent the United Kingdom. This now can be handled with harmonize_country_code() which converts the raw data values from EL to GR and from UK to GB.
• Harmonized roxygen documentation to better follow CRAN conventions
• Changed Windows encoding to UTF for input files
• Improved memory usage

eurostat 1.2.21

• The get_eurostat() can now get data also from the Eurostat JSON API via get_eurostat_json(). It also have a new argument type to select labels for variable values instead of codes.
• Fix an error after update to tidyr 0.4.0 (#47).

eurostat 1.2.13

• New select_time argument for get_eurostat() to select a time frequency in case of multi-frequency datasets. Now the get_eurostat() also gives an error if you try to get multi-frequency with other time formats than time_format = "raw". (#30) time column is also now in ascending order.
• get_eurostat() gets a new argument compress_file to control compression of the cache file. Also cache filenames includes now all relevant arguments. (#28)
• For search_eurostat() a new type option type = "all" to search all types.
• For label_eurostat() new arguments. A code to retain also codes for spesified colums. A eu_order to order factor levels in Eurostat order, which uses the new function dic_order().
• Now label_eurostat_vars(x) gives labels for names, if x is other than a character or a factor and label_eurostat_tables(x) does not accept other than a character or a factor.
• For get_eurostat() a new argument stringsAsFactors to control the factor conversion of variables.
• eurotime2date (and get_eurostat) convers now also daily data.

eurostat 1.0.16

• Fixed vignette error

eurostat 1.0.14 (2015-03-19)

• Package largely rewritten
• Vignette added
• Changed the value column to values in the get_eurostat output

eurostat 0.9.1 (2014-04-24)

• Package collected from statfi and smarterpoland

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