Changes in version 0.2.4 (2024-01-25)                  

  - The database has been moved, and the connection changed accordingly.
    All users should update the package, older package versions will
    cease to fetch data in a few months time.

  - The Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) was added to the East African
    Community in the am_entities table.

  - am_pivot_wider() has become faster by internally replacing
    data.table::dcast() by collapse::pivot().

                 Changes in version 0.2.3 (2023-03-06)                  

  - Ensured that tests fail gracefully if database is not available.

                 Changes in version 0.2.2 (2022-11-30)                  

  - The database was expanded to include data for all 195 countries
    (where available), which includes the 193 UN Member States, Western
    Sahara and Taiwan, to allow comparison with Africa. A new dataset
    countries_wld was added providing codes for all 195 countries. The
    default behavior of the package is not changed i.e. if no country
    codes are supplied, am_data() retrieves data for all African
    countries.

  - The package fails gracefully i.e. without error if the database is
    not available.

  - A like-named Python package has been made available on PyPi.

  - A repository for bug reports has been made available on GitHub. The
    source code remains private though.

                 Changes in version 0.2.1 (2022-10-16)                  

  - am_pivot_wider() supports factor variables as labels and does not
    check for uniqueness, making it a bit faster.
  - am_pivot_longer() now by default codes series and labels columns as
    factors, which also yields speed improvements.

                 Changes in version 0.2.0 (2022-07-04)                  

  - Significant expansion of the database to >700 series with high
    Africa coverage, and computation of coverage statistics in the
    am_series() table, July 2022

                 Changes in version 0.1.2 (2022-05-25)                  

  - First CRAN release, with added am_entities table, May 2022

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - First development version of the package, mid-January 2022