Changelog • gssr

gssr 0.8

Updated to Release 2 of the 1972-2024 cumulative data file. See the official GSS page for more details. From the announcement: “Release 2 of the 2024 GSS Cross-section data are now available. This updated data features questions related to religious affiliation and practice, industry and occupation, household composition, and new topical questions. We encourage users to review the documentation and consider the potential impact of the experiments and data collection approach on the survey estimates. Release 2 also reflects adjustments to some variables following a disclosure review process that was implemented to better protect GSS respondent privacy (for details, see the GSS 2024 Codebook).”

Updated to the newly released cumulative data file, covering 1972-2024. See the official GSS announcement for what’s new in the data file.

Fixed a reshaping error in the 2006, 2008, and 2010 panel datasets (gss_panel06_long, gss_panel08_long, and gss_panel10_long) which led to the values of some variables being incorrectly attributed across waves. Thanks to Pat Hastings for identifying the error.
Updated the 2006, 2008, and 2010 panel datasets.

Split gssr into two packages: gssr (the data sets) and {gssrdoc} (the integrated documentation). Rationale: The goal of this version of the package is to allow for binary installs via R-Universe. A binary package allows for faster installation, which matters here because gssr is a large package. Given the current resource limits of the GitHub runners that build packages, R-Universe can’t build gssr with all the documentation. So I am experimenting with splitting it into two packages: gssr, which contains the data and the gss_get_yr() function, and {gssrdoc}, which integrates the GSS codebook into R’s help system. It includes the gss_dict object and the panel documentation object gss_panel_doc. I recommend you install both packages.

Add get_which_ballots() function to return tibble of ballots a question appeared on.
Add var_ballots list column to gss_dict object, indicating the distribution of answers across ballots for each Q.
gssr now passes R CMD check with no ERRORS or WARNINGS
Fix vars with text like [NAME] and [PROMPT] so they do not try to autolink in Rd build process.

Update gss_all to Release 2a of the 1972-2022 Cumulative Data File (January 2024)
Update the documentation to Release 2a also.

Added the latest cumulative file (1972-2022) and the latest panel data (2020, release 1a).
Integrated help: every variable in the cumulative file has an R manual page (like a function would). You can browse the pages in the help viewer or query variables by name from the console with ?, as you would with any documented object or function.
gss_get_yr() can now fetch the 2022 cross-sectional file
gss_get_yr() now correctly downloads the 2021 crossectional file
Removed gss_get_marginals() and gss_get_props() as these are largely superseded by the new built-in variable documentation.
gss_dict incorporates additional information.

gss_get_years() has been renamed to gss_which_years() to make it less confusingly similar to the gss_get_yr() function. The former looks to see when a question was asked. The latter pulls a given year’s dataset from the GSS website.
Update the base URL in gss_get_yr(). Thanks to (@lindsaypoirier.)

gss_all now includes the 2021 data release imported from the GSS 1972-2021 Cross-Sectional Cumulative Data (Release 1, Nov. 1, 2021). The documentation tibble does not yet include the 2021 variables.

In gss_all retain STATA missing codes for IAP, Can’t choose, and DK. (Thanks to @dustinstolz.)

The panel documentation tibble, gss_panel_doc, has been updated to a wide format that makes it easier to browse the variables.

Fixed errors in the panel tibbles; removed panelr depenedency; added all three-wave panels
Wrote a short vignette giving an overview of the package.
Cumulative Data File and Three Wave Panel Data added.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.