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In scaledescr: Descriptive, Reliability, and Inferential Tables for Psychometric Scales and Demographic Data

scaledescr 0.2.4

• Added PDF export support to make_dataframe_to_output() using the flextable engine.
• make_alpha_table(): The function only return only scale name, number of items (N), and alpha value.
• Improved internal file extension handling using switch logic for better scalability.
• Updated documentation to clarify dependencies for PDF and Word exports.

scaledescr 0.2.3

Improvements

• make_scale_description_table(): now accepts multiple columns at once to generate a single descriptive table,and Accepts either a numeric vector (single column) or a data frame with column names.
• make_alpha_table(): users are warned that extraction of CI values may be unreliable across psych::alpha versions. Future versions will return only scale name, number of items (N), and alpha value.
• make_chisq_test_table():now accept list of chi square test and return single frame with rows of all chi square test result extracted.

New Functions

• make_alphanumeric_conversion() - Converts specified columns between alphabetical (text) and numeric values. Can either overwrite existing columns or create new ones.
• make_scale_total() - Converts specified columns between alphabetical (text) and numeric values.Can either overwrite existing columns or create new ones.
• make_reverse_score() - Create Reverse Scores as New Columns.
• compute_ICC() - Create Reverse Scores as New Columns.
• make_one_sample_t_test_table() - create a single row table of one sample t test result from htest object calculated using t.test(). it can accept list of htest object at once as well.

scaledescr documentation built on April 11, 2026, 5:07 p.m.