NEWS

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HistData 0.9-2

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

HistData 0.9-1 (2023-08-09)

• Added CholeraDeaths1849 [Thx: James Riley]

HistData 0.9-0

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

HistData 0.8-9

• Added Breslau data [thx: David Bellhouse]

HistData 0.8-8

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

HistData 0.8-7 (2021-03-09)

• 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

HistData 0.8-6 (2020-01-08)

• fix documentation problems with CRAN checks

HistData 0.8-5

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

HistData 0.8-4 (2018-04-04)

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

HistData 0.8-3

• Add clarifying note to Arbuhnot.Rd that the data are christenings, not births (thx: Jim Oeppen [email protected])

HistData 0.8-2 (2017-08-16)

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

HistData 0.8-1 (2017-01-09)

• 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.

HistData 0.8-0 (2016-12-17)

• 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.

HistData 0.7-8 (2016-04-13)

• Fix web links again

HistData 0.7-7

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

HistData 0.7-6 (2015-10-16)

• Added Armada data [thx: Antoine de Falguerolles]

HistData 0.7-4

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

HistData 0.7-3 (2013-08-21)

• Cosmetic: fix long lines in .Rd files

HistData 0.7-2

• Extended Nightingale examples

HistData 0.7-1

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

HistData 0.7-0 (2012-12-31)

• Revised Langren.Rd examples to replace ReadImage with jpeg

HistData 0.6-14 (2012-12-04)

• 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.

HistData 0.6-13 (2012-10-06)

• Added GaltonFamilies data
• Fixed deprecated warnings from ggplot2

HistData 0.6-12 (2011-10-26)

• 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

HistData 0.6-11 (2011-10-10)

• 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

HistData 0.6-10

• Additional variables added to Langren1644

HistData 0.6-9 (2010-07-29)

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

HistData 0.6-8 (2010-04-03)

• Added links to data sets on main package page

HistData 0.6-7 (2010-03-20)

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

HistData 0.6-6

• Added Quarrels data

HistData 0.6-5 (2009-11-22)

• 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

HistData 0.6-4 (2009-11-13)

• Initial release to CRAN

HistData 0.6-3

• Nightingale$Month made ordered factor
• Added Nightingale examples

HistData 0.6-1

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

HistData 0.6

• Added Yeast data

HistData 0.5

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

HistData 0.4

• Added Nightingale data

HistData 0.3

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

HistData 0.2

• Added Minard data
• Added Bowley data

HistData 0.1

• Initial Version uploaded to R-Forge