- 2014: I re-cleaned the data and (mostly) forced myself to pull it straight out of the spreadsheets. Used the `gdata` package. It was kind of painful, due to encoding and other issues. See the scripts in this state in [v0.1.0](https://github.com/jennybc/gapminder/tree/v0.1.0/data-raw).
- 2015: I revisited the cleaning and switched to `readxl`. This was much less painful. Present day.