Version 1.0.0

This is a major release of the package, reorganizing and reformatting the documentation and adding one new dataset

• Add Playfair1824 data [Thx: Ivan Lokhov]
• Convert documentation from Rd to roxygen (painfully!), but also make edits to dataset descriptions, references, …
• Some contributors made authors
• Extended package description
• Ran roxygen2md(scope="simple") to use markdown in docs
• Fixed broken URLs
• Add @references to nice examples of the use of these datasets [Thx: John Russell]
• Added @concept tags to all datasets giving the associated statistical or graphic ideas one might want to search for [Thx: Claude]

Version 0.9.4

• Switch to recommended versioning
• Add example graphs from John Russell to sandbox/
• Add link to Horsekicks package

Version 0.9-3

This is a maintenance release, largely fixing CRAN check problems since the last public release, 0.9-1

• add Pyx ggplot histogram [thx: John Russell]
• add seealso: cholera pkg for Snow
• fix http -> https in README
• fixed other moved / broken url links
• Remove Rdatasets from Suggests b/c not on CRAN
• Now Depends: R >= 4.1.0 for use of |> in examples

Version 0.9-2

• now run Minard examples for documentation
• renamed Armada$Armada -> Armada$Fleet and updated documentation.

Version 0.9-1

• Added CholeraDeaths1849 [Thx: James Riley]

Version 0.9-0

• Added Pollen data, a multivariate challenge
• Add table of datasets to README

Version 0.8-9

• Added Breslau data [thx: David Bellhouse]

Version 0.8-8 (2021-03-14)

• Added Mayer and Saturn data sets [thx: Luiz Fernando Palin Droubi]

Version 0.8-7 (2021-03-04)

• Added ChestStigler data, Stigler’s correction of Quetelet ChestSizes (now depends on R (>= 3.5.0))
• Fixed URLs broken since the last release
• Now Depends: R >= 3.5.0

Version 0.8-6 (2019-12-22)

• fix documentation problems with CRAN checks

Version 0.8-5 (2018-04-26)

• Added EdgeworthDeaths data, one of the first examples of two-way ANOVA

Version 0.8-4 (2018-04-04)

• fixed errors in Cholera.Rd related to car 3.0-0
• fix spelling errors

Version 0.8-3 (2017-10-01)

• Add clarifying note to Arbuthnot.Rd that the data are christenings, not births (thx: Jim Oeppen joeppen@health.sdu.dk)

Version 0.8-2 (2017-02-10)

• Added Herschel’s data on the twin stars Virginis, used in the first scatterplot
• Complete the example plots of Minard data

Version 0.8-1 (2016-12-22)

• Added SnowMap()
• fixed Snow.pumps data: label should be character, not a factor; added missing labels for pumps 1:2
• SnowMap now uses asp=1
• Replaced Snow.polygons with new ## Version consisting of actual vertices of the polygons surrounding each pump.

Version 0.8-0 (2016-12-07)

• Added HalleyLifeTable
• Added Cholera data from Farr 1852 [thx: Neville Verlander]
• Correction to ZeaMays.Rd [thx: Bryan Clair]
• Add Suggests: effects for effect plots for some examples.
• Added Snow.dates – deaths by date from Aug 19 – Sept 30, 1854
• Substantially revised examples in Snow.Rd to make plots more flexible. SnowMap() should be a function in the package and made more general, but this is not yet done.

Version 0.7-8 (2016-04-13)

• Fix web links again

Version 0.7-7 (2016-04-09)

• Added vignettes/Snow_deaths and data/Snow.deaths2 [Thx: Peter Li]
• Fixed web links to make curl happy

Version 0.7-6 (2015-10-13)

• Added Armada data [thx: Antoine de Falguerolles]

Version 0.7-4 (2013-10-29)

• Added reference to agridat package
• Fixed Nightingale.Rd examples to avoid obscuring some segments by overplotting [thx: Monique Graf].

Version 0.7-3 (2013-08-20)

• Cosmetic: fix long lines in .Rd files

Version 0.7-2

• Extended Nightingale examples

Version 0.7-1

• CushnyPebbles renamed to proper spelling, CushnyPeebles (thx: Ian E. Holliday)
• Removed Suggests: ReadImage; for now, retain old code examples as
• Extended GaltonFamilies examples

Version 0.7-0

• Revised Langren.Rd examples to replace ReadImage with jpeg

Version 0.6-14 (2012-12-01)

• Extended examples for Playfair Wheat
• Replaced original data(Wheat) on 26 intervals with a new ## Version at 53 time points and a separate data.frame, Wheat.monarchs giving the reigns. Updated examples to more closely approximate Playfair’s original and a revision.

Version 0.6-13 (2011-11-03)

• Added GaltonFamilies data
• Fixed deprecated warnings from ggplot2

Version 0.6-12 (2011-10-12)

• Added CushnyPebbles data
• Extended examples for Michelson and CushnyPebbles
• Fixed Suggests: for all packages used in examples
• Added ZeaMays data from Darwin, used by Fisher for an early non-parametric test
• Illustrated permutation and non-parametric tests for ZeaMays data
• Added examples for Macdonell data showing contour plots and simulations [thx: Jim Hanley]
• Added frequency-expanded ## Version, MacdonellRD
• Now Suggest: lattice
• Added plotting examples to PearsonLee

Version 0.6-11 (2011-10-05)

• Added ChestSizes data - Quetelet’s data on chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen
• Added PolioTrials data - two experiments on the Salk polio vaccine
• Added Cavendish data - density of the earth
• Added Michelson data - speed of light experiments

Version 0.6-10 (2010-12-22)

• Additional variables added to Langren1644

Version 0.6-9 (2010-07-27)

• portion of example(Snow) using sp, due to error from sp::Lines()
• Minor documentation fix for car_2

Version 0.6-8 (2010-03-19)

• Added links to data sets on main package page

Version 0.6-7 (2010-02-28)

• Switched from inst/ChangeLog to NEWS
• Corrected typo in Yeast.Rd

Version 0.6-6 (2010-01-26)

• Added Quarrels data

Version 0.6-5 (2009-11-13)

• Added Dactyl data
• Added Pyx data
• Fixed one-off error creating Night1, Night2
• Added simple Dactyl examples; minor updates to other examples
• Extended example(Jevons)
• Added Fingerprints data

Version 0.6-4 (2009-11-11)

• Initial release to CRAN

Version 0.6-3 (2009-11-08)

• Nightingale$Month made ordered factor
• Added Nightingale examples

Version 0.6-1 (2009-11-06)

• Added Yeast example
• Fixed latin1 characters in Langren1644
• Extended Langren example

Version 0.6 (2009-11-05)

• Added Yeast data

Version 0.5 (2009-11-03)

• Added Macdonell data
• Added Langren/ggplot2 example
• Added OldMaps data

Version 0.4 (2009-11-02)

• Added Nightingale data

Version 0.3 (2009-10-27)

• Added Snow data
• Added Langren data
• Added inst/images/google-toledo-rome3.jpg

Version 0.2 (2009-10-23)

• Added Minard data
• Added Bowley data

Version 0.1 (2009-10-20)

• Initial Version uploaded to R-Forge