ICEWS data end of life; bug fix

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: icews
 Title: Get the ICEWS Event Data
-Version: 1.0.2
+Version: 1.0.3
 Authors@R: 
  person(given = "Andreas",
  family = "Beger",

NEWS.md

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+# icews 1.0.3
+
+The ICEWS data were discontinued on 11 April 2023. This final version of the package has a fix to allow it to continue working (the weekly dataverse repo was removed and all data are now in what used to be the yearly file repo).
 
 # icews 1.0
 
-This is the first version released to CRAN. 
+This is the first version released to CRAN. Well, several failed attempts at least. 
 
 ## Resumption of ICEWS updates with weekly data drops
 
@@ -16,7 +19,8 @@ The ICEWS project ceased updates in late 2019, but resumed again in May 2020. Ho
 
 ## Minor fixes, etc. 
 
-- Fix bugs in the non-standard 2017 events file; non-standard file name ("Events.2017.20200602.tab.zip") and dates formatted like "12/1/2017" (#57).
+- Fix a July 2022 update error due to a non-standard file for the January 2022 data. (#80)
+- Fix bugs in the non-standard 2017 events file; non-standard file name ("Events.2017.20200602.tab.zip") and dates formatted like "12/1/2017". (#57)
 - Move to testthat 3rd edition. This required replacing the deprecated `testthat::with_mock()` with solutions from the {mockr} and {mockery} packages, which have as a result been added to Suggests. (#76)
 
 ## Fixes, etc. for the old daily repo structure

R/state_dataverse.R

@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ get_dvn_manifest <- function(icews_doi = get_doi(), server = Sys.getenv("DATAVER
  tibble(repo = c("historic", "weekly"),
  content = list(
  dataverse::get_dataset(icews_doi$historic, server = server),
- dataverse::get_dataset(icews_doi$weekly, server = server)
+ # Fix for ICEWS end of life (no more weekly repo)
+ #dataverse::get_dataset(icews_doi$weekly, server = server)
+ list(files = data.frame())
  )),
  error = function(e) {
  stop("Something went wrong in 'dataverse' or the Dataverse API. Check that the API token is valid (?dataverse_api_token) and try again. Original error message:\n", e$message)

README.Rmd

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 [![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/andybega/icews/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/andybega/icews/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
 [![Codecov test coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/andybega/icews/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/andybega/icews?branch=master)
 
+_Note: the ICEWS data were discontinued on 11 April 2023. You can still use this package to download the data from dataverse however._
+
 Get the ICEWS event data from the Harvard Dataverse repos at [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28075](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/28075) (historic data) and [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QI2T9A](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QI2T9A) (weekly updates).
 
 The icews package provides these major features:
@@ -29,10 +31,6 @@ The icews package provides these major features:
 - set options so that in future R sessions icews knows where your data lives
 - icews keeps the local data in sync with the latest versions on Dataverse
 
-*Note about stability:*
-
-*This package is young. The core functionality of the package involves downloading and keeping track of potentially 10+GB of files and data. I have not found a good way to test that thoroughly. There are probably bugs and errors that pop up on a fresh run without any downloaded data already in place. Please file bug reports or email me (adbeger@gmail.com)!*
-
 ## Installation
 
 Not on CRAN, so you will have to install via remotes or devtools:

README.md

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/icews)](https://cran.r-project.org/
 [![Codecov test
 coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/andybega/icews/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/andybega/icews?branch=master)
 
+*Note: the ICEWS data were discontinued on 11 April 2023. You can still
+use this package to download the data from dataverse however.*
+
 Get the ICEWS event data from the Harvard Dataverse repos at
 [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28075](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/28075)
 (historic data) and
@@ -16,22 +19,13 @@ Get the ICEWS event data from the Harvard Dataverse repos at
 
 The icews package provides these major features:
 
-- get the ICEWS event data without having to deal with Dataverse
-- use raw data files (tab-separated variables, .tsv) or a database
- (SQLite3) or both as the storage backend
-- set options so that in future R sessions icews knows where your data
- lives
-- icews keeps the local data in sync with the latest versions on
- Dataverse
-
-*Note about stability:*
-
-*This package is young. The core functionality of the package involves
-downloading and keeping track of potentially 10+GB of files and data. I
-have not found a good way to test that thoroughly. There are probably
-bugs and errors that pop up on a fresh run without any downloaded data
-already in place. Please file bug reports or email me
-(<adbeger@gmail.com>)!*
+- get the ICEWS event data without having to deal with Dataverse
+- use raw data files (tab-separated variables, .tsv) or a database
+ (SQLite3) or both as the storage backend
+- set options so that in future R sessions icews knows where your data
+ lives
+- icews keeps the local data in sync with the latest versions on
+ Dataverse
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -125,7 +119,7 @@ Remove 'events.1996.20140313082528.tab'
 
 The events come in (zipped) tab-separated files. To load all of these
 into memory in a big combined data frame with about 16 million rows
-(\~2.5Gb):
+(~2.5Gb):
 
 ``` r
 events <- read_icews("~/Downloads/icews")
@@ -209,7 +203,7 @@ str(cameo_codes)
 #> $ lvl1 : int NA 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ...
 #> $ description : chr NA "All public statements expressed verbally or in action not otherwise specified." "Explicitly decline or refuse to comment on a situation." "Express pessimism, negative outlook." ...
 #> $ usage_notes : chr NA "This residual category is not coded except when distinctions among 011 to 017 cannot be made. Note that statements are typicall "This event form is a verbal act. The target could be who the source actor declines to make a comment to or about." "This event form is a verbal act. Only statements with explicit pessimistic components should be coded as 012; otherwise, defaul ...
-#> $ example : chr NA "U.S. military chief General Colin Powell said on Wednesday NATO would need to remain strong." "NATO on Monday declined to comment on an estimate that Yugoslav army and special police troops in Kosovo were losing 90 to 100 "Former West Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt said in a radio interview broadcast today he was skeptical over Moscow\u0082\xc4\xf ...
+#> $ example : chr NA "U.S. military chief General Colin Powell said on Wednesday NATO would need to remain strong." "NATO on Monday declined to comment on an estimate that Yugoslav army and special police troops in Kosovo were losing 90 to 100 "Former West Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt said in a radio interview broadcast today he was skeptical over Moscow\x82\xc4\xf4s ...
 #> $ order : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
 #> $ quad_category : chr "verbal cooperation" "verbal cooperation" "verbal cooperation" "verbal cooperation" ...
 #> $ penta_category: chr "statement" "statement" "statement" "statement" ...