Ecdat 0.4.5 (Release date: 2025-09-02)

• Updated USincarcerations

Ecdat 0.4-4 (Release date: 2025-08-27)

• Updated “USGDPpresidents”

Ecdat 0.4-2 (Release date: 2022-10-13)

• Updated “terrorism” to 2020.

Ecdat 0.4-1 (Release date: 2022-07-01)

• Replaced non-breaking spaces that used Latin-1 encoding with ” ” in 4 “demoFiles/NIPA6.16*.csv” files, because the said non-breaking spaces were not valid in UTF-8 and were rejected by a development version of R.

Ecdat 0.4-0 (Release date: 2022-06-14)

• Adds new datasets “USnewspapers”” and “USPS”” (US Postal Service) while adding federal government budget data to “USGDPpresidents”.

Ecdat 0.3-9 (Release date: 2020-11-01)

• Deletes ~demoFiles/*_data.xls, because they were used to test Ecfun::financialDataFiles and Ecfun::readFinancialDataFiles, and those two functions were removed, because they used gdata, which was not being maintained, and the work required to maintain them exceeded the current need of the maintainer.

Ecdat 0.3-6 (Release date: 2020-02-08)

• Adds variables popM, popYr, GDP_B, and GDPyr to data set “nuclearWeaponStates”.

Ecdat 0.3-5 (Release date: 2019-12-05)

• Corrects the description of Crime$density to read, “hundreds of people per square mile” from “people per square mile”. Thanks to Yungfong “Frank” Tang for identifying this error and confirming the needed correction.

Ecdat 0.3-4 (Release date: 2019-11-05)

• Adds variable ‘firstTestYr’ to ‘nuclearWeaponStates’. It also corrects an error in the ‘Mroz’ data set, in that “work” had the names of the levels incorrectly swapped.

Ecdat 0.3-3

• Adds data set “nuclearWeaponStates”, which might be used to model the probability distribution of the time to the next new nuclear weapon state.