Introduced ngdist, a dist object
containing road distances (in km) between all 37 Nigerian State
capitals, sourced from UNDP.
Added ng_distance() for convenient lookup of the
driving distance between any two State capitals, with support for
kilometres and miles.
Bug fixes:
Fixed non-interactive vignette builds due to a failure to explicitly
import key functions.
naijR 0.6.3
Fixes a bug where naijR::lgas(<states>) failed
because the package was not attached to the search path due to an
internal issue with object lookup.
Improves the output of the lgas() function. LGA output
for objects constructed from multiple States is now properly sorted,
including the constituent State names. This will improve naked eye
search by users.
naijR 0.6.2
Return LGA output after object creation as sorted values. This is to
enhance the user experience.
naijR 0.6.1
Added more function examples and other documentation
improvements.
Increased compression for internal data.
Reflect new home on rOpenSci software repository.
naijR 0.6.0
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 0.5.2
Quietened a verbose warning introduced via the soon-to-be-retired
spatial data packages.
naijR 0.5.1
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 0.5.0
New features:
New methods for ?InternalGenerics were introduced
e.g. for c(), [, [[,
na.exclude, etc.
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 0.4.4
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 0.4.3
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 0.4.0
Introduce the ability to ‘manually’ fix names of States or
LGAs.
Update the documentation with a new vignette.
naijR 0.3.4
Fixed package-wide misuse of the word Nasarawa.
naijR 0.3.3
Fixed repetitions in the output when multiple LGAs’ spellings are
corrected.
naijR 0.3.2
Improved on print methods
naijR 0.3.1
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 0.3.0
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 0.2.2
Export S3 generic fix_region.
naijR 0.2.1
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 0.1.4
Suppress deprecation warning for is_state when it is
called internally by package function; displayed only when function is
called directly.
naijR 0.1.3
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.