africamonitor 0.2.4

• The database has been moved, and the connection changed accordingly. All users should update the package, older package versions will cease to fetch data in a few months time.

• The Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) was added to the East African Community in the am_entities table.

• am_pivot_wider() has become faster by internally replacing data.table::dcast() by collapse::pivot().

africamonitor 0.2.3

• Ensured that tests fail gracefully if database is not available.

africamonitor 0.2.2

• The database was expanded to include data for all 195 countries (where available), which includes the 193 UN Member States, Western Sahara and Taiwan, to allow comparison with Africa. A new dataset countries_wld was added providing codes for all 195 countries. The default behavior of the package is not changed i.e. if no country codes are supplied, am_data() retrieves data for all African countries.

• The package fails gracefully i.e. without error if the database is not available.

• A like-named Python package has been made available on PyPi.

• A repository for bug reports has been made available on GitHub. The source code remains private though.

africamonitor 0.2.1

• am_pivot_wider() supports factor variables as labels and does not check for uniqueness, making it a bit faster.
• am_pivot_longer() now by default codes series and labels columns as factors, which also yields speed improvements.

africamonitor 0.2.0

• Significant expansion of the database to >700 series with high Africa coverage, and computation of coverage statistics in the am_series() table, July 2022

africamonitor 0.1.2

• First CRAN release, with added am_entities table, May 2022

africamonitor 0.1.0

• First development version of the package, mid-January 2022