Basics

Basic functionality

state_panel()

Create state panel data

sfind()

Lookup country codes or names

plot_missing() missing_info()

Visualize missing and non-proper cases for state panel data

Helper functions

Miscellaneous utility functions

id_date_sequence()

Identify date sequences

states states-package

State system membership

country_names()

Country names

prettyc()

Shorten country names

parse_date()

Parse date

compare() report()

Compare two statelists

Data

The COW and G&W independent states lists are included in the package, as well as Combined Polity scores as an example for plot_missing().

cowstates

Correlates of War list of independent states

gwstates

Gleditsch and Ward list of independent states

polity

Polity IV combined Polity scores