NEWS.md
In Nelson-Gon/shinymde: A Shiny Interface to mde, the missing data explorer

date: "5/16/2023" author: "Nelson Gonzabato" title: "Changes to shinymde"

shinymde 0.1.3

Contributed by @jimbrig:

Added Docker support to package
Fixed mde package dependency in DESCRIPTION
Added dependencies.R script
Added dev/docker.sh Shell script

shinymde 0.1.2

Plots now fill the entire page.
The app was broken into several UIs and helper functions created to make it easier to build repetitive UIs. See #15.
UI elements are now rendered programmatically to make tests easier.
The UI has been redesigned to make exploration even more fun.
There is now an option to customize plot designs for examples themes. See https://github.com/Nelson-Gon/shinymde/issues/14

shinymde 0.1.1

UI overhaul to ensure a much better user experience. Specifically, inputs were decluttered to make it easier to do analyses with minimal interference.
Action buttons are now the same color as the app's skin.
The sidebar menu is now collapsed on app start.
Changes to the UI to ensure that it is less cluttered. Download buttons now appear above plots/tables.
dropdown was dropped in favour of dropdownButton.
The UI is now red instead of blue.
All tabs now have drop downs instead of a more cluttered interface.
The dashboard side bar is now collapsed on start.
renderUI was dropped in favour of update* functions which lead to a significant speed improvement.
Tooltips were dropped. We now use a simpler interface based on shinyWidgets.
There is now a reset button to allow reset of plot option in the "Visualize Missingness" tab.
Following changes in mde, users can now filter columns in na_summary based on regular expression matches.
bsTooltip is now imported explicitly from shinyBS. This is a workaround to allow R CMD check passes.
Non-needed directories for build were removed from the shipped package/app.

shinymde 0.1.0

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
shinymde can now be browsed at https://nelson-gon.shinyapps.io/shinymde.
Tool tips are now shown above not below a given widget.
For the dropping tab, "Percent NA" is now hidden for drop_all_na as expected.
For visual summaries, users can now choose to turn off the text labels on bar plots.
For remote datasets, the file extension is now accepted via a selection from a list of currently supported file types.
Users can now choose a sheet number for "xlsx" files.
There is now a slider input to choose size of arrows and points for lollipop plots.
For plot type "lollipop", fill_variable is now hidden. The plot is also now not flipped.
Users can now choose to either use a bar plot or a lollipop plot.
Fixed issues with downloading reports after the move to shinydashboard.
shinyBS is now in the Depends field to ensure that tootltips work as expected. This is presumably because some other functions should be loaded first for tooltip adders to work.
There are now tooltips to aid users with the navigation process. This also adds shinyBS to the list of app dependencies.
For inbuilt datasets, only data.frame objects are supported.
The title at the header now includes the package version.
There are now runnable examples (essentially one example to launch the app).
There is now a highlight when a user hovers over a table row.
Hovers are now more "obvious" with target highlighted.
The Reset button at the input tab now resets the initial text too. The input tab now also provides a user with system details prior to dataset confirmation.
There is now a homepage that can direct users to project homepage, project documentation, and author homepage.
Massive UI changes to improve user experience. In particular, the layout is now based on shinydashboard.
Users now have a reset button at the "Input Data" stage that may be useful in case of mind changes.
run_app was renamed launch_app to avoid name conflicts for example with golem::run_app.
A simple welcome message was added to ensure that users have something visible as they select a dataset. It also serves as a form of credit to the author(s).
Tabs except Input Data are now hidden on app startup.
Code refactoring was done to allow for easier showing/hiding of elements, conditionally.
Missingness summaries now default to a percent_missing sort that is provided in descending order. The user can always change this.
User feedback is now provided via shinyFeedback which is a more helpful way for users to view feedback directly within the application.
A reset button now exists to enable a user to restore default values for plot save preferences.
Grouped summaries now support exclusion following a fix in mde.
There is now a download button to allow saving of plots.
All tabs now use a sidebar style which also makes it more easier to navigate and also makes the download button appear more uniform on the app's page.
Users now receive a summary of the input data on uploading/selecting a data set. The Input Data tab also now includes a sidebar layout.
Visual summaries are now shown in a sidebar layout.
It is now possible to download a summary of missingness, a data set with values recoded as requested, or one where values have been dropped.
Initially supported operations
Data input supports either user data, an inbuilt data set, or a remote data set provided as a web link. For user data, only ".csv", ".xlsx", and ".tsv" are supported.
A tabular missingness summary is provided that can be downloaded by the user. The file format to write to is guessed from the user's input.
Recoding values supports recode_as_na, recode_na_as, recode_na_if, recode_as_na_for and other recode functions from package mde.
Dropping values using drop_ from mde.
A visual summary of missingness is also available. This is currently "just" a visual alternative to the tabular summary of missingness.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.