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pvsR 0.1
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* First release


pvsR 0.1.1
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* Fixed several bugs


pvsR 0.2
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* Improved pvsR's ability to deal with XML parsing errors

* Added a new wrapper function for the Npat.getNpat method

* Added several high level functions that facilitate the download of data based on many API queries:
  getAllBios,
  getAllCities,
  getAllCounties,
  getAllDistricts,
  getAllLocalOfficials,
  getOffices

* Added default value (current year) to year parameter in functions:
  Election.getElectionByYearState,
  Election.getElectionByZip,

* Fixed several little bugs


pvsR 0.3
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* Added a function (wrapper) for the new CandidateBio.getDetailedBio() method of the PVS API CandidateBio class

* Added a high level function that facilitates the download of data based on many API queries:
  getAllVotes

* Improved internal function dfList() with respect to handling empty xml-nodes

* Fixed several little bugs


pvsR 0.4
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* Replaced internal function dfList() with faster implementation in dplyr::bind_rows, removed dfList() from package

* In order to improve the comfort in interactive sessions, all high-level functions for querying data from the PVS API return now objects of class "tbl_df"/"tbl"/"data.frame".

* Low-level functions are now all set to stringsAsFactors = FALSE

* Improved code-readability/formatting

* Updated package documentation with respect to references/citation


pvsR 0.4.1
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* Check whether the user's PVS API key is stored as an option named "pvs.key" (#5).