NEWS.md

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NEWS

eeptools 1.2.5

• Removed deprecated mapping functions to address #45 the sunsetting of maptools
• Cleaned up old and redirected URLs

eeptools 1.2.3

Bug Fixes

• Update to avoid CRAN check warnings on some platforms

eeptools 1.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Updated unit tests to avoid warnings associated with the new random number generator in R 3.5.3

eeptools 1.2.1

Bug Fixes

• In max_mis, there is an if predicate that checks if a class is of an invalid type. Because R objects can have multiple classes, this statement relies on the R semantics that the first value of the logical vector returned by the predicate is used. This is a feature R-core is looking to remove as it has considerable performance penalties. This check is now wrapped in any(), which evaluates TRUE if any value in the logical vector is TRUE.

eeptools 1.2.0

Added

• New function isid for determining if a combination of variables uniquely define the rows in a dataframe

Bug Fixes

• Fixed error in statamode with method = "last" thanks to PR from @larcat
• Fix import compatibility with ggplot2

eeptools 1.1.1

• Minor fixes for CRAN repository compliance in dependencies contained in vignettes

eeptools 1.1.0

Added

A CONTRIBUTING.md file modeled after the excellent example in the rio package by @leeper

Bug fixes

• Fix compatibiltiy issue for leading_zero function with latest version of R

Deprecated functions

• Thanks to new and better tools the mapping functions mapmerge and ggmapmerge are no longer necessary thanks to geom_map and further enhancements to ggplot2

eeptools 1.0.1

• Revise readme.rmd to include plots in package build

eeptools 1.0.0

Deprecated functions

• Thanks to new ggplot2 theme options, the theme_dpi functions are now just wrappers for theme_bw

Bug Fixes

• Fixed logical test in age_calc (GH #32)
• Fixed issue with calls to library in examples (GH #33)

eeptools 0.9.1

Bug Fixes

• Compatibility with ggplot2 and roxygen updates

Enhancements

• nth_max performance is improved thanks to use of partial sort contributed by @sgibb

eeptools 0.9

This is a major update including removing little used functions and renaming and restructuring functions.

New Functionality

• A new package vignette is now included
• nth_max function for finding the nth highest value in a vector
• retained_calc now accepts user specified values for sid and grade
• destring function deprecated and renamed to makenum to better reflect the use of the function
• crosstabs function exported to allow the user to generate the data behind crosstabplot but not draw the plot

Deprecated

• dropbox_source deprecated, use the rdrop2 package
• plotForWord function deprecated in favor of packages like knitr and rmarkdown
• mapmerge2 has been deprecated in favor of a tested mapmerge
• mosaictabs.labels has been deprecated in favor of crosstabplot

Bug Fixes

• nsims in gelmansim was renamed to n.sims to align with the arm package
• Fixed bug in retained_calc where user specified sid resulted in wrong ids being returned
• Inserted a meaningful error in age_calc when the enddate is before the date of birth
• Fixed issue with age_calc which lead to wrong fraction of age during leap years
• lag_data now can do leads and lags and includes proper error messages
• fix major bugs for statamode including faulty default to method and returning objects of the wrong class
• add unit tests and continuous integration support for better package updating
• fix behavior of max_mis in cases when it is passed an empty vector or a vector of NA
• leading_zero function made robust to negative values
• added NA handling options to cutoff and thresh
• Codebase is now tested with lintr to improve readability

eeptools 0.3

New Functionality

• moves_calc function from Jason Becker
• gelmansim function to do post-estimation prediction on new data from model objects using functionality in the arm package
• statamode updated to work with data.table
• age_calc function from Jason Becker given new precision option
• lag_data function to create groupwise nested lags quickly

Bug Fixes

• unit tests for decomma, gelmansim, and statamode using testthat package

eeptools 0.2

New Functionality

• new functions for building maps with shapefiles including
• mapmerge to merge a dataframe and a shapefile, and

• ggmapmerge to convert this to a document for making a map in ggplot2

• statamode updated to allow for multiple methods for handling multiple modes

• emove_stars deleted and replaced with remove_char to allow for users to specify an arbitrary character string to be removed

• add plotForWord function to export plots in a Windows MetaFile for inclusion in Microsoft Office documents

• add age_calc function to allow calculating the age of a vector of birthdates relative to the current date (h/t Jason Becker)

Bug Fixes

• fix typos in documentation
• fix startup message behavior
• reduce dependencies of the package dramatically so loading is faster and more lightweight

eeptools documentation built on June 7, 2023, 5:06 p.m.