eiCompare 3.0.0

General package changes

• Code has been refactored significantly, aligning with modern R packaging (https://r-pkgs.org)
• Roxygen2 now used for documentation (#27, @aridf)
• Update readme, add contributing guide
• Implement Binder instance
• Remove all warnings and notes from RCMDCHECK()
• Reduce package dependencies

New additions:

Geocoding:

• Functions for preprocessing addresses.
• Functions for calling Census and Opencage APIs.
• Implemented parallel processing of geocoding API calls.
• Functions for mapping results of geocoding.
• Geocoding vignette/tutorial.

Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG)

• Functions for manipulating Census geographic area columns.
• Functions for merging Census and precinct data to voter files.
• Wrapper function that cleans and manipulates surnames to maximize the accuracy of BISG.
• BISG vignette/tutorial.

Ecological Inference (EI)

• Functions for preprocessing election data.
• Functions to automate basic descriptive analyses.
• Refactor RxC and Iterative EI functions.
• Summary and plot methods for comparing EI estimates.
• Probability density plots for EI estimates.
• Implemented parallel processing in EI execution.
• Diagnostic plot outputs for Bayesian MCMC estimation of RxC EI.
• Vignettes/tutorials for EI, parallel processing and data vizualizations

Performance Analysis

• Performance analysis functions for using data from previous elections to predict turnout for different electoral maps.
• Performance analysis vignette/tutorial.