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Unified column rename mechanism: RSF
periodically renames columns in their exports (e.g., 2025–2026: “Score”
→ “Score 2025”/“Score 2026”). All such renames now flow through a
single, transparent override system
(inst/extdata/period3_column_overrides.csv + three
validation/override functions) instead of special-cased detection logic.
This makes future RSF format changes maintainable without code edits —
just append a row to the CSV. Includes three new safety net functions
for per-column validation, override loading, and mapping
patching.
Improved encoding robustness: Each raw RSF CSV is now scanned per-file for encoding (UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1 inherited from RSF’s silent 2025 switch), preventing mojibake that would otherwise propagate silently into RDS datasets. Detection happens at download time; data are converted to UTF-8 during cleaning.
detect_score_column() function (functionality
moved to override mechanism, making score renames no longer
special).normalize_column_names() signature: dropped
unused period and year parameters. Function
now does pure mechanical rename/reorder; all period/year-specific logic
moved to caller. This removes ~22 lines of code and clarifies the API
boundary.R CMD check output, avoiding false suspicion of package
issues during CRAN review.\dontrun{}, replacement
of cat() with message(), removal of
package-relative path defaults from internal functions.ETL/update functions (download_rwb_data(),
clean_rwb_single(), clean_all_rwb_years(),
combine_cleaned_periods(),
standardize_rwb_countries(),
update_rwb_data(), and related internal helpers) are no
longer exported. They rely on a development checkout
(here::here() paths, git operations) and were never usable
from an installed copy of the package. The public API is now just the
rwb_standardized dataset. Use
pressfreedom.data:::fun() if you still need direct
access.
zone now uses English region names instead of RSF’s
original French labels, e.g. "MENA" ->
"Middle East & North Africa", "Afrique"
-> "Africa". Update any code that filters or joins on
the old French values (see ?rwb_standardized for the full
mapping). This also fixes a recurring zone
mojibake/encoding issue.
Fixed score_n_1 for 2023-2026 (720 rows), which was
about 100x too large (e.g. 9265 instead of
92.65) due to a missing decimal-scaling step. It’s now on
the same 0-100 scale as score. Remove any manual rescaling
workaround for these years.
rwb_ naming convention (RSF vs. RWB) in
?rwb_standardized.README.md and
vignette("getting-started"); consolidated citation info
into inst/CITATION.\value tag to print.rwb_update()’s
documentation and cited the RSF web service in the
Description: field, addressing CRAN feedback on the initial
0.2.0 submission.\examples from the unexported helpers
download_rwb_data(), get_period(), and
get_years_to_download() rather than exporting them,
eliminating the package’s only \dontrun{} usage.download_rwb_data() now uses message()
instead of unconditional cat() for progress/summary output,
so it can be suppressed with suppressMessages()."inst/extdata",
here::here("data", "cleaned")) from
download_rwb_data(), get_years_to_download(),
clean_rwb_single(), clean_all_rwb_years(),
combine_cleaned_periods(), and
standardize_rwb_countries(). These arguments are now
required with no default, so the functions never write to (or read from)
a package or home directory implicitly.pressfreedom Shiny app’s logo.These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.