uncomtrademisc 2023.08.21

adds EB02 download option

uncomtrademisc 2023.08.02

Adds SITC rev 3-4 and BEC download option
Updated COMTRADE links to use the API
Uses archive (pkg) instead of 7zip (external)
limits just to COMTRADE data (no gravity, no GDP, no RTAs)

uncomtrademisc 2023.04.22

Allows to skip download and create the database directly.
Removes Arrow functions

uncomtrademisc 2023.03.17

Uses text and float8 to store UN COMTRADE data

uncomtrademisc 2023.03.07

Add requirements for Red Hat Linux
Normalizes tables in SQL to save space

uncomtrademisc 2022.12.31

Allows to save raw data in PostgreSQL

uncomtrademisc 2022.12.12

updates default path to gdp tables

uncomtrademisc 2022.10.31

allows to download to sub-directories with the subdir parameter

uncomtrademisc 2022.10.17

uses gravity variables from UTSIC Dynamic Gravity Dataset instead of CEPII
uses CEPII distances to keep the distances table in the server the same
removes all modeling functions (no sucess at modeling CIF/FOB ratio with decent R2)

uncomtrademisc 2022.10.15

avoids re-creating parquet files for years without new data
removes old zip files for years with new data
allow sequential or parallel downloads on Linux/MacOS

uncomtrademisc 2022.10.02

add_gravity_cols() now uses the cepiigravity package for the data
because of the previous point add_rta_cols() was removed, the RTAs/FTAs data comes in cepiigravity
the previous gravity data came from cepiigeodist, that doesn't include GDP or RTA variables
uses duckdb for gravity variables

uncomtrademisc 2022.09.21

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
I added the option to return units in the tidy output
As far as I've tested, the changes are compatible with the previous version.\
Running tidy_flows() with default parameters returns the same output as in previous releases.