futzing with vignette/website

R/rd-african_coups.R

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ NULL
 #' Modeling Coups in Africa, 1960 to 1975 (1982)
 #'
 #' A data set on modeling coups in Africa using data from the period between
-#'  1960 to 1975 (1982). These data offer a partial replication of Jackman
-#'  (1978).
+#' 1960 and 1975 (1982). These data offer a partial replication of Jackman
+#' (1978).
 #'
 #' @format A data frame with the following 11 variables.
 #' \describe{
@@ -32,8 +32,15 @@ NULL
 #'
 #' English country names are country names from around the time of publication.
 #' Take note of older names of "Dahomey", "Swaziland", "Upper Volta", and "Zaire."
-#' The three-character ISO codes are current, though it comes with the
-#' acknowledgment that Dahomey used to have a different ISO code.
+#' The three-character ISO codes are current, mostly for ease of doing other
+#' things with the data. However, this comes with the acknowledgment that
+#' Dahomey and Zaire used to have different ISO codes under their older names.
+#' Both codes for Dahomey (`DHY`) and Zaire (`ZAR`) were retired in 1977 and
+#' 1997, respectively.
+#'
+#' Ideally, I'd have Morrison's (1972) \emph{Black Africa}, but I do not. I have
+#' a copy of a 1989 update, though. That's what I consulted in constructing
+#' this data set.
 #'
 #' Jackman (1978) is deceptively opaque on what he's doing for the ethnic group
 #' variable and arguably misleads on what his turnout variable is actually from.
@@ -58,10 +65,6 @@ NULL
 #' not included in his original study, but was included in the Johnson et al.
 #' replication.
 #'
-#' Ideally, I'd have Morrison's (1972) \emph{Black Africa}, but I do not. I have
-#' a copy of a 1989 update, though. That's what I consulted in constructing
-#' this data set.
-#'
 #' Related: the agricultural variable is a midway point between columns B and
 #' columns C in Table 3.11 of Morrison et al. (1989). I do not think this is too
 #' far removed from what Jackman was looking at in an older version of the same

docs/pkgdown.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgdown: 2.0.7
 pkgdown_sha: ~
 articles:
   stevedata-description: stevedata-description.html
-last_built: 2024-04-10T09:27Z
+last_built: 2024-04-10T13:08Z
 urls:
   reference: http://svmiller.com/reference
   article: http://svmiller.com/articles

vignettes/stevedata-description.Rmd

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ getdescript <- function(package){
   descript <- lapply(db,function(x) {
     tags <- tools:::RdTags(x)
     if("\\description" %in% tags){
-      out <- paste(unlist(x[which(tags=="\\description")]),collapse="")
+      out <- paste(unlist(x[which(tags=="\\description")]),collapse=" ")
     }
     else
       out <- NULL