# Ecfun 

# 0.4.0 
Functions and vignettes to update a few data sets in 'Ecdat' and to create, 
manipulate, plot, and analyze some of those and similar data sets.
    
# 2025-08-24
# add `grepInTable` and update `vignette/UpdatingUSGDPpresidents.Rmd`
    
# 2024-11-09
    
Added functions readDW_NOMINATE and findCountry 
    
# 2021-06-29 
All `read*` functions in this package have been removed, because it wasn't 
clear if anyone was using them.  Other functions that called an `Ecfun::read*` 
function by default were also deleted, especially `UShouse.senate`, 
`USsenateClass`, and `mergeUShouse.senate`.  These all scraped websites, and 
the demand for them seemed not to justify the work of maintaining them.  

# 2021-05-20
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# 2020-01-23
`testURLs` and `read.testURLs` have been removed, 
because it wasn't clear that anyone was using them, 
and more modern tools are available from:  
http://www.measurementlab.net/

Thanks to Iñaki Ucar, Adam H Sparks, and Roy 
Mendelssohn for their replies to a question 
posted to R-Devel helped me understand what 
I needed to do to fix problems identified in 
the CRAN Checks.
