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loon.data 0.1.4 (2025-05-29)

fixed the references for data set SAHeart to avoid accents causing notes in CRAN.

fixed the data set covidNZ to have its variable types match the help description. Now a mix of factors, character vectors, and dates.
removed urls as sources. Only <doi: ...> now appear.

added the data set trtPan which is a rearrangement of the data contained in pandemic

Very minor changes
- removed an accented character from New Zealand district name Tairawhiti
- changed each URL from http: to https:
- had to remove @source for placenamesCanada because access to the URL timed out in testing. URL is now buried in the comments.

added the New Zealand current cases on COVID-19 as of May 28, 2020.
added dataset containing the names and locations of more than 10,000 places in Canada (French and English)

organized topics in pkgdown yaml
added the diabetes data from Andrews and Herzberg
added the data on rock crabs from MASS separated into two data sets for pedagogical purposes
- lepto contains the physical size measurements (rows randomized from crabs from MASS)
- crabSpecies contains the species and sex from crabs in row order given by lepto.
added data on sampling from a set of 100 flat plastic blocks
- blocks contains the ids of each of the 100 blocks as well as their weight, their perimeter, and to which of two strata they belong.
- judgment contains the judgment sample of 10 blocks chosen by each of 33 graduate students
- together these two data sets are used to illustrate sampling methods.
added three fictional data sets (and contexts) to be used for teaching
- lizards is a fictional data set on perch preferences for four different species of lizard. Useful to illustrate a continuous counter part to Simpson's paradox often called the "ecological fallacy".
- pandemic is a fictional data set on recovery rates for three treatments for patients from 100 cities worldwide. Designed to make students think when comparing treatments. Contains a cyclic ordering of treatments
- medicalRecords is a fictional data set containing counts in a 2x2x2x2 table. Designed to contain a double reversing Simpson's paradox.

added the protein/DNA complex SCmolecule from Baker's Yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) from PDB 1d66
added elements containing a variety of information on the first 118 elements from the periodic table.

Added and documented datasets that had previously been used from the package ElemStatLearn since it has been orphaned and as of 2020 archived.
Documentation of these added datasets is richer than that found in ElemStatLearn package
datasets added are
- SAheart South African Heart Disease Data
- bone Relative Spinal Bone Mineral Density Data (note variable name changes from ElemStatLearn and edition of ethnic)
- bone_ext Spinal Bone Mineral Density (Extended) Data (the larger data set including "ethnicities" from website accompany Elements of Statistical Learning book)

Changes to alaska_forest data, removed redundant rows, changed variable names to lower case.