NEWS.md

In eatTools: Miscellaneous Functions for the Analysis of Educational Assessments

eatTools 0.7.5

• internal fixes to tests (removed language dependency)
• new function makeTria() for internal use in eatTools and eatModel reshapes covariance/correlation matrices into triangular shape
• added seq2() for sequence generation
• adapt halveString() for patterns with more than 1 character
• add messages to mergeAttr() if combinations of merge variables from one data set do not occur in the other data set
• add messages to mergeAttr() if the two data.frames intended to merge contain additional common variables (beyond thy by-variables)
• makeDataFrame() gives warning/errors if data.frame has less rows than expected at the least.
• existsBackgroundVariables() gives warning/errors if variables have missing values, depending on how critical the missing values are considered to be

eatTools 0.7.4

• new function rbind_common() rbinds a list of data.frames and selects only common columns
• bug fix in mergeAttr() when variables have more than one class
• mergeAttr() gives warning if merging variables have NAs
• optional colnames argument in halveString() function

eatTools 0.7.3

• new function print_and_capture() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatCodebook packages allows for easy integration of (small) tables into (error) messages
• added some unit tests

eatTools 0.7.2

• new function makeDataFrame() for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages converts tibbles and data.tables to data.frame
• new function mergeAttr() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages restores attributes after merging and provides messages if merging units are not unique or only partially matches
• new function pwc() computes part-whole-correlation between an item and the whole scale (except this item)

eatTools 0.7.1

• new function roundDF() rounds all numeric variables in a data.frame

eatTools 0.7.0

• new function na_omit_selection() drops rows containing missing values in selected columns
• existsBackgroundVariables(): add optional warning if variables contains missing values

eatTools 0.6.0

• new function readMultisep() reads in data.frames with separator characters >=1Byte
• new function addLeadingZerosToCharInt() adds leading zeros to all columns that can be identified as integers in a character data.frame
• bug fix in descr(). missing handling in variable when additional weights are used
• bug fix in tablePattern() when additional weights are used

eatTools 0.5.0

• new function recodeLookup() allows recoding of a variable based on a look up table
• functionality of wideToLong() extended
• Switch to Github Action for CI

eatTools 0.4.0

• new function do_call_rbind_withName() allows row binding a list of data.frames while keeping their list names
• bug fix in wideToLong()

eatTools 0.3.8

• asNumericIfPossible() now works with matrices

eatTools 0.3.6

• Initial CRAN release

eatTools documentation built on Nov. 23, 2023, 5:06 p.m.