Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

naijR 0.6.1

  • Added more function examples and other documentation improvements.
  • Increased compression for internal data.

naijR 0.6.02023-08-08

New Features:

  • Added a new dataset states_nigeria for the States of Nigeria.
  • Migrated from RGDAL-based spatial data; the sf package is now the main dependency.
  • map_ng gained a newly documented argument plot, which hitherto was passed internally to maps::map() via ....
  • Added a new function disambiguate_lga, which takes a single-element lgas object for handling the names of Local Government Areas that are shared between separate States. This function enables the (re)setting of the State attribute of such objects; this can be done interactively, where the replicated States’ names are presented for selection by users.

Fixes:

  • Improved on the accuracy of LGA naming in the light of spelling mistakes discovered in the earlier reference document.
  • Unwanted display of dialogs when fixing LGA names on Windows OS was reversed (suggested by Laura DeCicco).

naijR 0.5.22023-06-14

  • Quietened a verbose warning introduced via the soon-to-be-retired spatial data packages.

naijR 0.5.12022-12-02

  • In nested calls with the function fix_region, the lgas constructor function does not warn if there are spelling mistakes, as this turned out to be a bit confusing when it was used. In earlier versions, warnings persisted even after fixes were applied.
  • In carrying out interactive fixes, particularly of LGA spellings, the more familiar and intuitive native Windows messaging and dialog system is used. Works only on Windows machines; on Linux and MacOs, the usual messaging and interaction occurs at the R console.
  • Control the size of map labels with the cex argument (passed on to maps::map.text internally, via ...).
  • Handle instances where the term Abuja is used as a State (which technically it is not) and signal a warning to the user.

naijR 0.5.02022-09-30

New features:

Enhancements:

  • Effectively handle mobile numbers that have common separators in them, namely whitespace, ‘-’ or ‘.’.
  • Repair mobile numbers where poor data entry interchanges zeros (0s) with the letter O (works for both upper and lower case).
  • Repair of mobile numbers now offers optional information for users.
  • Allow the use of factor input when creating objects of class regions.
  • Added a new argument legend.text for map_ng using an idiom that is similar to the one used in base::barplot, thanks to observations made by @VictoriaLatham in issue #27.
  • Simplified the creation of choropleth maps with 2-column data frames; one of the columns is to be a vector of valid States or Local Government Areas, and the other a factor or something coercible to one.

Bug fixes:

  • map_ng accepted arguments that were not data.frames leading to unwieldy errors. It is now made sure to fail early in such cases

Deprecated:

  • Arguments of map_ng - leg.x, leg.y, and leg.orient were marked for deprecation in the next minor release.

naijR 0.4.42022-08-30

Bug fix:

  • fix_mobile fails unexpectedly when only NA is supplied as argument. This causes practical problems when, for example, it encounters a column with only missing values.

naijR 0.4.32022-08-08

  • Addressed a build problem related to CRAN submission.

naijR 0.4.2

  • Improved type checking for mapping functionality and better fidelity.

naijR 0.4.1

  • Enable the exclusion of selected States from a choropleth map (#27).
  • Cleaner output for states and lgas objects.

naijR 0.4.02022-01-28

  • Introduce the ability to ‘manually’ fix names of States or LGAs.
  • Update the documentation with a new vignette.

naijR 0.3.42021-12-06

  • Fixed package-wide misuse of the word Nasarawa.

naijR 0.3.32021-11-05

  • Fixed repetitions in the output when multiple LGAs’ spellings are corrected.

naijR 0.3.22021-10-20

  • Improved on print methods

naijR 0.3.12021-09-30

  • Fixed a bug that affected the proper rendering of LGA-level maps for some of the States. The approach used was to simply filter the entire data when requiring a State map, so as to reduce name clashes that occurred from synonyms amongst some of the LGAs and/or States.
  • Enabled the fine-tuning of creation of lgas objects in the event that the argument provided is the name of an LGA that is synonymous with it’s State (argument strict).

naijR 0.3.02021-09-08

  • Provide new methods for the S3 generics head and tail to work with objects that inherit from class regions.
  • The S3 constructors states and lgas gain a logical argument warn to control whether or not they issue a warning when an input string does not contain an actual State/LGA.
  • General improvement of the formatting of output to enhance the user experience.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the loading of LGAs from the internal data when the package is not attached to the search path i.e. invocation with naijR::lgas() was producing an error.

naijR 0.2.22021-04-30

  • Export S3 generic fix_region.

naijR 0.2.12021-04-25

  • Fixed incorrect URLs, as noted by CRAN
  • Edits to output message

naijR 0.2.0

  • Added a new function is_lga, which checks an object for Local Government Areas.
  • Ignore, with a warning, the check for is_state when the object checked is not of type character.
  • Draw maps up to LGA level

naijR 0.1.5

  • Built new package website.

naijR 0.1.42020-08-25

  • Suppress deprecation warning for is_state when it is called internally by package function; displayed only when function is called directly.

naijR 0.1.32020-08-03

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  • Recognise abbreviations of ‘Federal Capital Territory’ i.e. FCT.
  • Disable error-check on character type for is_state so it can be used more effectively for functional programming constructs.