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rOpenGov
An R package to download regularly maintained political science data sets and make commonly used, but infrequently updated variables based on this data.
Thanks for a very useful package! One tiny bug. In the Polity IV Data import, Russia and USSR both have a 1922 year. This might not normally be a problem...
Following the consensus in #5 a number of major changes will be made to _psData_ for the version 1 release. These include: - [ ] Separating the present getter and...
Sorry everyone, I've been kind of overwhelmed with other projects the past couple of weeks. I was thinking that to get this thing started up again it might be good...
I've put together the first draft of the presentation for csv,conf next week. The slide deck is here: http://christophergandrud.github.io/psDataCSVConf/psDataPresentation.html Feel free to make a pull request here: https://github.com/christophergandrud/psDataCSVConf
Any thoughts on integrating [testdat](https://github.com/ropensci/testdat) into psData?
> [T]he Political Instability Task Force’s Worldwide Atrocities Dataset [] records information from several international press sources about situations in which five or more civilians are deliberately killed in the...
Recipes
In terms of repository structure, I think it would be beneficial to split each data source into separate files. The idea would be to create a standarized "recipe" format that...
This isn't really a psData topic, but I was wondering if anyone is interested in putting together a proposal for the [CPS special issue on transparency in the social sciences](http://www.ipdutexas.org/cps-transparency-special-issue.html)....
dat
Do any of you have experience with [dat](http://dat-data.com/)? I've been trying to think about how this might relate to psData. Overall, they aim to address similar issues, with psData being...
Noting this down as an idea for when the production version is out: it might be relevant to run an [ECPR Summer School](http://www.ecpr.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=92) course with `psData` one day. They have...