NEWS

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Ecdat 2022-10-13

• Updated "terrorism" to 2020.

Ecdat 2022-07-01

• Replaced non-breaking spaces that used Latin-1 encoding with " " in 4 "demoFiles/NIPA6.16*.csv" files, because the said non-breaking spaces were not valid in UTF-8 and were rejected by a development version of R.

Ecdat 2022-06-14

• Adds new datasets "USnewspapers"" and "USPS"" (US Postal Service) while adding federal government budget data to "USGDPpresidents".

Ecdat 2020-11-01

• Deletes ~demoFiles/*_data.xls, because they were used to test Ecfun::financialDataFiles and Ecfun::readFinancialDataFiles, and those two functions were removed, because they used gdata, which was not being maintained, and the work required to maintain them exceeded the current need of the maintainer.

Ecdat 2020-02-08

• Adds variables popM, popYr, GDP_B, and GDPyr to data set "nuclearWeaponStates".

Ecdat 2019-12-05

• Corrects the description of Crime$density to read, "hundreds of people per square mile" from "people per square mile". Thanks to Yungfong "Frank" Tang for identifying this error and confirming the needed correction.

Ecdat 2019-11-05

• Adds variable 'firstTestYr' to 'nuclearWeaponStates'. It also corrects an error in the 'Mroz' data set, in that "work" had the names of the levels incorrectly swapped.

Ecdat 0.3-3 (2019-09-29)

• Adds data set "nuclearWeaponStates", which might be used to model the probability distribution of the time to the next new nuclear weapon state.