parlitools - v0.4.1

Fixed some missing 2017 results from bes_2019 data, spotted by Antony Unwin.

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Published by evanodell over 6 years ago

parlitools - v0.3.4

Fixed issues being caused by some old vignettes.

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Published by evanodell over 6 years ago

parlitools - v0.3.3

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Published by evanodell about 7 years ago

parlitools - # parlitools 0.3.1

Fixed formatting of percentages in the leave_votes_west dataset so they are all scaled on 0-1 rather than some on 0-1 and some on 0-100.
Improved the organisation of the British Election Study dataset documentation.

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Published by evanodell about 7 years ago

parlitools - parlitools 0.3.0

parlitools no longer stores local council party data. The most up-to-date data on the political make-up of local councils and individual councillors can be be accessed with the new council_seats() function.
Updated the leave_votes_west dataset to include the latest best-estimates of constituency level votes from Chris Hanretty and the actual votes, where known.
Fixed errors caused by duplicated vignette names.
Eliminated some dependencies.

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Published by evanodell over 7 years ago

parlitools - v0.2.3

Very minor update, some tweaks to docs layout.

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Published by evanodell over 8 years ago

parlitools 0.2.2

(This release also contains changes made in v0.2.1)

Data

Updating of council_data dataset to be accurate as of 2017-11-24.

Added combined_leave_vote column to leave_votes_west dataset with the actual leave vote if known and the Chris Hanretty estimate if not known.

Vote percentages in leave_votes_west are now all numeric class.

Dependency changes

Removed reliance on now-hidden functions from mnis and hansard packages.

General improvements

Improvements to documentation to improve clarity and readability.

Better example plots in introductory vignette.

The tidying functions are now all internal to the package and not exported.

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Published by evanodell over 8 years ago

Data

New bes_2017 dataset, with results of 2017 General Election, taken from the 2017 British Election Study. This dataset replaces the ge_2017 dataset. It also replicates some of the data in the bes_2015 dataset.

Census data from the British Election Study has been moved to its own seperate file, named census11.

Fixes

Naming conventions for variables now places an underscore between each distinct word (eg onsconst_id is now ons_const_id)

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Published by evanodell almost 9 years ago

parlitools - v0.1.0

Changes to vignettes to comply with CRAN policies and to reduce the time needed to check the package.

Reduction in the number of similar vignette examples to reduce build time.

Data

Updating of council_data dataset to be accurate as of 2017-07-14.

New ge_2017 dataset, with results of 2017 General Election, linked with constituency data from bes_2015.

Bug fixes

Consistent naming of vote variables in bes_2015.

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Published by evanodell almost 9 years ago

parlitools - v0.0.7

Updated documentation, more comprehensive testing. Added Northern Irish EU Referendum results to the leave_votes_west dataset.

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Published by evanodell almost 9 years ago

parlitools - v0.0.6

Bug fixes

Fixed bugs in mps_on_date() that were causing problems on Windows.

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Published by evanodell almost 9 years ago

parlitools - v0.0.5

Added leavevoteswest containing estimates and - where available - official counts of the proportion of leave votes in the 2016 EU referendum.