Package: demcon
Type: Package
Title: Interfacing with Popular Polity, Institutional, and
        Constitutional Datasets
Version: 0.4.0
Authors@R: person("Joshua", "Brinks", email = "jbrinks@isciences.com",
                  role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: An open-source toolkit developed by ISciences, LLC and the DANTE 
    Project that is intended for learning, accessing, pre-processing, and 
    visualizing popular political, institutional, and constitutional datasets. 
    ‘demcon' aims to reduce barriers to entry in political science research by 
    automating common acquisition and pre-processing procedures. This package 
    particularly focuses on the V-Dem dataset (<https://www.v-dem.net/vdemds.html>),
    and provides adaptations of methods presented in Fjelde, H., Knutsen, C. H. 
    & Nygård, H. M. 2021, <doi:10.1093/isq/sqaa076>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://dante-sttr.gitlab.io/demcon/index.html,
        https://gitlab.com/dante-sttr/demcon, https://www.isciences.com
BugReports: https://gitlab.com/dante-sttr/demcon/-/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
Imports: countrycode, data.table, httr, rlang, stringr, utils
Suggests: cshapes, sf, states (>= 0.3.0), knitr, ggplot2, rmarkdown,
        rnaturalearth, rnaturalearthdata, rgeos, kableExtra, lubridate,
        haven, readxl, ggrepel, png, testthat (>= 3.0.0), vdiffr,
        compare, magrittr, devtools
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2023-03-14 20:36:01 UTC; Josh
Author: Joshua Brinks [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Joshua Brinks <jbrinks@isciences.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2023-03-15 13:10:14 UTC
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