Several functions were deleted from Ecfun
0.2-5, because they no longer worked, and
it was not clear if there was demand for
them.
If you need them, you can get the
documentation and code for them from CRAN
> Packages > Archive (near the bottom
center) > Ecfun >
Ecfun_0.2-0.tar.gz.
I don't expect the code to work.
However, I might be willing to
collaborate in restoring the
functionality to Ecfun.
readFinancialCrisisFiles
was a companion to a book. This
function required the gdata
package, which was scheduled to be
removed from CRAN.
USsenateClass called by default
readUSsenate. UShouse.senate
and mergeUShouse.senate called by
default both readUSsenate and
readUShouse. The latter two and the
remaining functions deleted did web scraping,
and the web sites from which they scraped
information changed, and it did not seem worth
the work required to continue to maintain them.