NEWS.md

In aftables: Create Spreadsheet Publications Following Best Practice

aftables 1.0.2

• Updated package name to aftables. Function names have been updated to remove references to a11ytables.

a11ytables 0.3.2

• Bug fix: ensured factors are converted to character before assessing whether the column needs to be widened (#110, #113).

a11ytables 0.3.1

• Bug fix: made it an error if tab names are started with a numeric value (#124).
• Reduced gif file size, include additional frame (#121).

a11ytables 0.3.0

Breaking changes

• The new custom_rows argument is the third-to-last argument to create_a11ytable() (it's been inserted before sources and tables) so that the argument order reflects the order of the pre-table rows that appear above tables in the spreadsheet output; this will be a problem for users of {a11ytables} before v0.3 who might have previously specified arguments by place rather than by name (I assume most will have specified arguments by name, so I expect this won't be much of a problem).

New features

• Added the custom_rows argument to the create_a11ytables() function to supply arbitrary sentences to separate rows above a table in contents, cover and notes sheets (#74).
• Allowed custom rows to be hyperlinks if the user provides them in Markdown-style (#74).
• Added the datasets demo_df ('data.frame' class) and demo_a11ytable ('a11ytables' class) to help demo the new custom_rows argument (and do a better job of showcasing other features of the package), superseding mtcars_df and mtcars_df2.

Bugfixes

• Adjusted Markdown-link detection in cases where the text portion contained parentheses (#119).
• Ensured the summary method printed table dimensions of cover list items (#79).

Documentation

• Updated {roxygen2} function documentation given the introduction of custom_rows.
• Updated vignettes to include detail on how to use custom_rows.
• Updated accessibility checklist vignette to include 'sensible column width' item (#117).

Miscellaneous

• Simplified the output of the summary method (#79).
• Updated tests to use demo_* datasets.
• Updated RStudio Addin given custom_rows and simplified to data.frame example only.
• Added internal .vector_to_sentence() function to help construct comma-separated lists from a vector.

a11ytables 0.2.1

• Bugfix: corrected spelling error in installation instructions in README (#111).
• Accessibility fix: display number of tables with text rather than a numeral (#109).

a11ytables 0.2.0

New features

• Allowed the cover information passed to create_a11ytable() to be supplied as a list rather than a data.frame, which means you can have an arbitrary number of rows under each section (#102).
• Allowed the user to supply links in Markdown format (e.g. [GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk)) when passing the cover information to the tables argument of create_a11ytables() (#47).
• Allowed the user to supply links in Markdown format (e.g. [GOV.UK](https://gov.uk)) when passing the data source reference to the source argument of create_a11ytables() (#47).
• Added an mtcars_df2 demo data set that contains a list input for the cover page, which itself contains Markdown-formatted hyperlinks.

Bugfixes

• Ensured stringsAsFactors is set explicitly to FALSE in the data.frame call within create_a11ytable(), given that this default behaviour changed in R version 4 (#85).

Docs

• Updated the 'a11ytables' vignette given the new features.
• Updated function documentation given the new features.

a11ytables 0.1.0

Breaking changes

• Renamed the new_a11ytable() function to create_a11ytable() (#27).
• Renamed the create_a11y_wb() function to generate_workbook() and changed the main argument from 'content' to 'a11ytable' (#27).
• Removed the 'table_names' argument to create_a11ytable() and instead autogenerate them from the user-provided 'tab_title' (#61).
• Introduced the blank_cells argument to create_a11ytable() so the user can provide a table-by-table reason for why cells might be empty (#62).
• Adjusted the in-built mtcars_df data set to better fit the changes to the functions.

Bugfixes

• Provided a warning, rather than error, if you don't provide any 'source' argument to create_a11ytable().

Docs

• Added a vignette to provide an overview of the code underlying the package so that it's easier for developers to contribute (#58).
• Added a vignette to explain the terminology of a spreadsheet, as used in the package (#58).
• Referred to the updated gptables Python package and the best practice spreadsheet guidance on the Analysis Function website (#73).
• Added hex logo (#81).
• Updated README and other vignettes to reflect changes to the function API.
• Corrected various typos.

Miscellaneous

• Increased test coverage (#63).
• Updated user-input sanitising: it now removes punctuation in 'tab_title', inserts underscores in place of spaces and adds full-stops to blank_cells and source data (#78).
• Consolidated all a11ytable-class-related functioning into as_a11ytable() so that create_a11ytable() only has to build a data.frame from supplied arguments and apply as_a11ytable() to it (#80).
• Added warning for user if the 'blank_cells' argument is provided to create_a11ytable() but there are no blank cells in the table, and vice versa.
• Updated content of RStudio Addins to reflect function and argument changes.
• Adjusted default column widths in notes and contents.
• Renamed files in R/ for consistency and clarity.
• Switched to inherits() for class detection in if() statements.

a11ytables 0.0.0.90015

• Added and improved warnings and errors (#34).
• Simplified the in-built data set so it matches the 'get started' vignette.
• Updated the gif used in the 'get started' vignette.

a11ytables 0.0.0.90014

• Added explanations to the accessibility checklist vignette.
• Converted the 'quickstart' vignette to 'get started', used a simpler example, added gif.
• Removed the 'construct' vignette.
• Used 'reference' in _pkgdown.yaml to better separate functions on the site.

a11ytables 0.0.0.90013

• Added an RStudio Addin to insert code for an {a11ytables} workflow (#54).

a11ytables 0.0.0.90012

• Made source, notes and table insertion dynamic, so the row of insertion of each is dependent on the others (#33).
• Applied table styling based on dynamic table placement (#33).

a11ytables 0.0.0.90011

• Prevented the tab title being pasted into the titles of tables sheets (#48).
• Made sure to wrap non-header cells in tables sheets (#41).
• Provided an auto-column-width adjustment in tables where cell content or headers is long (#41).

a11ytables 0.0.0.90010

• Added warnings if issues are detected when making an a11ytables-class object (#34).
• Added a modified mtcars example data set, mtcars_df (#20).
• Expunged lfs_tables (#20).
• Added 'Crown Copyright' to authors as the copyright holder .
• Updated README and vignettes given these changes.
• Added new quickstart vignette and simplified README (#43).
• Handled plurals and periods in meta sheet elements, update detection of notes in column headers.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9009

• HOTFIX: corrected .detect_notes() so it actually works.
• Converted the print method to a summary method, as suggested by @TimTaylor (#23).
• Imported {pillar} for {tibble}-style printing, as suggested by @TimTaylor (#26).
• Added @TimTaylor as a contributor.
• Updated vignettes and README.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9008

• Ensured numeric columns (even if they contain a string like '[c]' to indicate a suppressed value) are right-aligned (#32).
• Isolated out .insert_*() functions for table count and note presence from .insert_prelim_a11y(), for clarity.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9007

• BREAKING CHANGE: removed subtables because they're not being used for now and are confusing.
• Added the first draft vignettes on how to create an a11ytable and an accessibility guidance checklist (#22).

a11ytables 0.0.0.9006

• HOTFIX: fixed a problem where the tab_title was being used to filter when it should have been sheet_type.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9005

• BREAKING CHANGE: the user-supplied table for the cover sheet should now be supplied as a tidy two-column data.frame with a row per subsection, with columns for the 'subsection title' and 'subsection body'.
• Updated the lfs_tables and lfs_subtables example data sets given the above; for an example see lfs_tables[lfs_tables$sheet_type == "cover", "table"][[1]].

a11ytables 0.0.0.9004

• BREAKING CHANGE: switched to using the sheet_type column of an a11ytable-class object to infer the sheet type as 'cover', 'contents', 'notes' or 'tables' (replacing 'meta'); it's no longer the tab_title that serves this role (#18).
• Ensured styles and .add_*() now make internal references to sheet_type rather than tab_title.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9003

• BREAKING CHANGE: retired fully the add_*() function family for building a workbook 'by hand', given the introduction of create_a11y_wb().
• Introduced S3 class 'a11ytable', including exported functions to generate (new_a11ytable(), as_a11ytable()) and test (is_a11ytable()) objects of this class.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9002

• Simplified all add_*() functions to a single create_a11y_wb() function (moving towards #15), though add_*() functions are all still exported.
• Split supplied data into two, with and without sub-table examples: lfs_tables and lfs_subtables, respectively.
• Updated README to detail simplified approach.

a11ytables 0.0.0.9001

• Added un-exported .style_*() utils functions to style worksheets (#1).
• Incorporated style functions into add_*table()* functions.
• Updated README.
• Added basic tests, defensive stops (#10, #11).
• Added GitHub Actions for RMD check, coverage and {pkgdown} (#7).
• Transferred ownership from matt-dray to co-analysis (#9).

a11ytables 0.0.0.9000

• Added a NEWS.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, README.Rmd.
• Added exported add_*() functions to create different tab types (cover, contents, notes, tables).
• Added un-exported .insert_*() utils functions to insert within-sheet elements.
• Added MIT license with LICENSE.md.

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