NEWS

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mdsr 0.2.9 (2026-01-12)

• Added BP_narrow and BP_wide

mdsr 0.2.8 (2024-08-19)

• Use the new URL for the MariaDB server hosted on AWS
• Documentation updated to use Markdown
• Documentation added to src_scidb() about databases #71
• Migrated the package to the native pipe
• Fixed erroneous Elections documentation #73

mdsr 0.2.7 (2023-01-06)

• Don't run all Internet examples
• Migrated from webshot to webshot2.

mdsr 0.2.6 (2022-08-15)

• Skip all Internet tests on CRAN

mdsr 0.2.5 (2021-03-29)

• Added LazyDataCompression

mdsr 0.2.4 (2021-01-06)

• Added Saratoga houses datasets
• Moved repository to https://www.github.com/mdsr-book/mdsr
• Fixed broken URLs

mdsr 0.2.3 (2020-11-10)

• Fixed CRAN errors about db_list_tables() #54
• person() -> mdsr_person() #55

mdsr 0.2.0 (2020-09-03)

• Update for 2nd edition of the book
• LaTeX macros added
• Emails and Headlines data sets added
• world_cities data set updated from source
• removed mosaic dependency
• updated DataSciencePapers
• renamed ordway_birds
• converted spatial objects to sf
• added save_webshot() function
• fixed URLs with trailing slashes and https

mdsr 0.1.8

• Removed deprecated versions of dplyr functions.
• Added skim()

mdsr 0.1.7 (2019-05-20)

• added Connections pane interface to DB Server #35
• removed superfluous extdata #37
• removed broken link in CIA documentation #38

mdsr 0.1.6 (2018-06-18)

• improved documentation #18
• scidb functions now point to AWS RDS instance
• Added tests
• Removed tidyverse dependency #31

mdsr 0.1.5 (2017-12-20)

• Fixed #27: non-ASCII characters
• Fixed #26: Namespace import from tidyverse not imported from

mdsr 0.1.4 (2017-07-24)

• Added CRAN badge after release.
• Added etl_NCI60() function
• Migrated to dbplyr

mdsr 0.1.3 (2016-08-29)

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.