v1.0.0

After a year of research use and updates, UCIMerge has finally earned its first major version number. Version 1.0 of UCIMerge is now available with dataset updates and improvements

Updated datasets:

• Polity to 2015
• Norris 2009, fixed an updated URL
• Freedom House to 2016
• Quality of Governance to 2016

Fixes and improvements:

• World Developments Indicators now caches partial results, and excludes a topic that is no longer offered.
• An example script to import the UCIMerge dataset into R has been included in Utilities.
• Corrections have been made to the USSR and Yugoslavia matches. Each dataset may be handling the transitions of country codes differently. It is worth double checking that countries are represented in the way you expect.
• For sets that import a Stata .dta file directly, variable labels are now prefixed to avoid name collisions.
• and finally, a delightful beep has been added to the end - so that you know when it is complete. Beep!

The authors of the Stata plugin which UCIMerge uses to import WDI data have greatly improved its stability and speed. If you experience problems, or aren't sure you have the latest version, it is worth running 'ssc install wbopendata, replace' to upgrade.

If you have used a different data set with UCIMerge and you would be willing to share your merge, please get in touch and I will be happy to help you include it in the larger project.

v0.9.3

• Fix FRN misalign in WDI
• Update for CNTS 2015

v0.9.2

Change PSS to WDI category

v0.9.1

citation doi

v0.9.0

• New datasets: KOF Index of Globalization, The Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (LIED), CIRI Human Rights Dataset, Quality of Government dataset, and merge codes for the Cross National Time Series and the Penn World Table.
• Better Documentation

v0.8.1

fix type mismatch on prep mergelist with blank MyMergeList

More Better Beta

v0.8

Add MIT License