NEWS.md
In smallsets: Visual Documentation for Data Preprocessing

smallsets 2.0.0

December 2023

CRAN submission. New features and updates:

smallsets now builds Smallset Timelines for preprocessing code in R Markdown and Jupyter Notebook files.
The format of smallsets structured comments has changed. There are no longer start and end instructions. Instead all snapshot comments use the snap instruction but with a place argument as well. This change will break existing smallsets code.
Changes to the ignoreCols argument in Smallset Timeline. Can now ignore any column in the dataset in the Smallset Timeline. Previously, could only ignore columns not called by the preprocessing code passed to the code argument.
Smallset Timelines can now be vertically aligned, meaning snapshots are plotted from top to bottom (instead of left to right) and captions are located to the right of snapshots (instead of below). There is a new align argument in Smallset_Timeline().
The Smallset Timeline colour legend labels have been simplified. Also, an asterisk is now used to indicate use of missing data tints.
A bug (introduced with the release of R 4.2.0 and changes to as.vector()) in the second optimisation Smallset selection problem is fixed.
Increased the amount of unit testing (coverage is now ~80%).
All documentation--including the help pages, vignette, pkgdown website, and README page--has been updated to reflect these package changes.

smallsets 1.0.0

31 January 2023

CRAN submission. Major revisions to package structure and user workflow. New documentation, including a vignette.

smallsets 0.0.1.9000

3 November 2022

Version released several months after FAccT publication (June 2022). However, there have been no major changes to the software since then. The structure and functionality mirror what was described in the paper.