The ess package has been renamed to essurvey for a name conflict with Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS). See R-pkg mailing list, the post related to the release of ess-0-0-1.
ess_rounds and ess_all_rounds are deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Use import_rounds instead [#22]
ess_country and ess_all_cntrounds are deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Use import_countries instead [#22]
The your_email argument name of ess_* functions has be changed to ess_email [#23]
import_rounds, import_all_rounds and download_rounds have been introduced as replacements of ess_rounds and ess_all_rounds. Same changes were repeated for ess_country and ess_all_cntrounds [#22]
set_email to set your email as environmental variable rather than write it in each call [#23]
All requests to the ESS website are now done through HTTPS rather than HTTP [#24]
Add package level documentation [#20]
ess_email had no default value but now has NULL as default [#23]
The format argument is now checked through match.arg rathern than manual check [#25]
remove_missings() together with remove_numeric_missings() and remove_character_missings() now allow you to recode the typical categories ‘Not applicable’, ‘Don’t know’, etc.. into NA’s. See the vignette example for more details. [#1]
Can download files in ‘stata’, ‘spss’ and ‘sas’ formats for all functions (both for downloading to user’s directory and for reading data). [#11]
show_themes() and show_theme_rounds() now available to see which themes have been included in which rounds. [#7]
show_rounds_country() is now available to see which countries participated in which rounds [#14]
The ouput_dir argument is now set to getwd() rather than NULL as default. [#16]
When parsing country rounds from the ESS table from the website, shaded dots were being interpreted as valid rounds when in fact they’re not. show_* funs new exclude shaded dots until they’ve been added as valid rounds
If any ess_* function can not connect to the ESS website they will return an explicit R error. [#12]
ess_all_cntrounds and ess_all_rounds were returning the directory of each of the files. Now they only return the single directory where the files where saved as a message
First release