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DESCRIPTION

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 Package: states
 Type: Package
 Title: Create Panels of Independent States
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.0.9000
 Authors@R: person("Andreas", "Beger", role = c("cre", "aut"), email =
     "[email protected]", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1883-3169"))
 Maintainer: Andreas Beger <[email protected]>

NEWS.md

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+# states 0.3.0.9000
+
+- Strip **readr** "spec" attribute from the _cowstates_ and _gwstates_ data. They are both now plain data frames with no attributes. (#22)
+- Expand list of short country names in `prettyc()`, e.g. instead of "Belarus (Byelorussia)", just "Belarus". 
+- Move to **testthat** 3rd edition (**3e**). 
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+- `all.equal()` in R 4.1.x (R-devel at this point) will check environments for equivalence as well. This breaks one test since 2e **testthat** relies on `all.equal()` for `expect_equal()`. Moving to testthat 3e fixes this bug. (#26)
+
 # states 0.3.0
 
 - Although the original COW state list does not distinguish micro-states, like the G&W list does, the `cowstates` data now has a microstates coding derived from the G&W coding (#24). This makes it easier, for example, to filter out micro-states from a state panel dataset. 
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 ## Bug fixes
 
-- `all.equal()` in R 4.1.x (R-devel at this point) will check environments for equivalence as well. This breaks one test since 2e **testthat** relies on `all.equal()` for `expect_equal()`. (#26)
 - fixed a misspelled country name, "Rumania" to "Romania"
 
 # states 0.2.2