NEWS

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owidR 1.4.2 (2023-10-30)

• Re-uploaded to CRAN after being removed for failing to meet the policy on failing safely without internet access
• Deprecated plotting functions have now been removed
• Data structure backend has been switched from dplyr to data.table

owidR 1.4.1 (2023-03-24)

• Fixed bug resulting in incorrect url being queried for data

owidR 1.4.0 (2022-09-25)

• Add deprecate warning for plotting functions
• Plotting functions (owid_plot(), owid_map(), theme_owid(), scale_owid) could be removed as soon as the next release

owidR 1.3.1 (2022-08-07)

• Change native pipe to magrittr pipe, removing R 4.1 dependency
• Change code format to tidy style guide

owidR 1.3.0 (2022-07-14)

• Update to fix failure to import data
• Backend changes to remain compatible with ourworldindata.org site

owidR 1.2.1 (2022-03-15)

• Updated tests, examples and vignettes to ensure failing safely
• owid() gives blank tibble when failing to connect to server

owidR 1.2.0 (2022-03-09)

• Ensured compliance with failing safely CRAN rule
• Minor tweaks to owid theming

owidR 1.1.0 (2021-11-09)

• Minor bug fixes for owid_map()
• Added 'rename' arg to owid()
• Added example analysis vignette
• theme_owid() margin fixes
• updated readme

owidR 1.0.0 (2021-10-15)

• Version ready for release

owidR 0.2.1

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Removed grapher tools to different package (owidGrapher)