NEWS

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legislatoR 1.1

• Data for Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Scotland, and USA updated
• Data for Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Turkey newly added
• All data moved to Harvard Dataverse

legislatoR 1.0 (2020-04-24)

• All legislative periods of Spain's Congreso de los Diputados added to the database (14 in total).
• Ongoing session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (27th) and concluded session updated (26th).
• Ongoing session of the Canadian House of Commons added to the database (43th) and concluded session updated (42th).
• Ongoing session of the Irish Dáil added to the database (33th) and concluded session updated (32th).
• Ongoing session of the UK House of Commons added to the database (58th) and concluded session updated (57th).
• Irish Dáil data integrated with Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland.
• Czech Poslanecka Snemovna data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
• UK House of Commons data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
• Spanish Congreso de los Diputados data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
• Austrian Nationalrat data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
• Daily Wikipedia page traffic now goes back to December 2007 (except for the US House, where file storage restrictions currently limit traffic to range back to July 2009 only).
• New cld_content() function that offers a quick overview of the CLD's scope and valid three-letter country codes, and helps to conventiently loop/map over legislatures and sessions.
• "Introducing legislatoR" Vignette added.
• Now available via CRAN
• New Logo/Hexsticker.

legislatoR 0.2.0

• 1st to 37th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (37 in total).
• Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the French Assemblée.
• German Bundestag data integrated with BTVote and ParlSpeech data.
• UK House of Commons data integrated with Eggers and Spirling british political development database (starting from 38th session).
• United States House and Senate data integrated with Voteview and congressional bills project data.
• Missing Twitter handles added for the Austrian Nationalrat, Czech Poslanecka Snemovna, French Assemblée, German Bundestag, Irish Dail, UK House of Commons, and United States House and Senate (841 in total).
• Missing religious affilition added for United States House and Senate and Canada's House of Commons.
• Missing ethnicity added for Canada and UK's House of Commons.

legislatoR 0.1.0

• Changed some function calls: get_facial is now get_portrait and get_occupation is now get_profession.
• Changed valid legislature arguments for get_ functions. Full legislature names are no longer accepted as legislature codes. Instead, three-letter country codes such as aut, can, cze, fra, deu, irl, sco, gbr, usa_house, usa_senate must be used.
• All legislative periods of Canada's House of Commons added to the database (42 in total).
• All legislative periods of Czech Republic's Poslanecka Snemovna added to the database (8 in total).
• All legislative periods of Scotland's Parliament added to the database (5 in total).
• 38th - 57th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (20 in total).
• Current session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (26th).
• Current session of the German Bundestag added to the database (19th).
• Current session of the French Assemblée added to the database (15th).
• Current session of the United States House of representatives added to the database (116th).
• Current session of the United States Senate added to the database (116th).
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes added to all core datasets.
• Start- and end date of sessions added to all political datasets.
• Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the Irish Dáil.
• Error in United States Senate Wikipedia revision records corrected.
• Missing religious affiliation added from 1st to 18th German Bundestag using official data.
• Erroneous information on United States Senate and House members' period of service corrected.
• Additional variables on government/opposition status and leader positions added to all sessions of the Canadian House of Commons and United States Congress.
• Correction and alignment of party names across legislative periods for all parliaments.
• Emotion estimates removed from the portraits dataset.