NEWS.md

In antaldaniel/eurobarometer: Tidy Eurobarometer Survey Microdata For Retrospective Harmonization

eurobarometer 0.0.9

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added canonical_names() to create a subjective canonical name for GESIS variables.

eurobarometer 0.1.0

• The gesis_vocabulary_create() helper function is added to make variable label and value label harmonization easier.
• New vignette(vocabulary) is developed as a working article to start creating meaningful metadata files. This is at this stage intended for contributors. See Working With Vocabularies.

eurobarometer 0.1.1

• The Harmonizing Variable Names vignette/article started for an early standardization of variable names. Thanks for the contribution from Marta.
• In the future, canonical_names() may be renamed, and it may receive a new functionality.
• The gesis_vocabulary_create() and The gesis_metadata_create() have better variable names. The normalize_names() function is renamed to label_normalize().
• Internal function is renamed to class_suggest() from suggest_conversion().
• The Workflow vignette is open for consultation.

eurobarometer 0.1.2

• label_normalize() has unit tests, new documentation, and the inputs parameters are synchronized with the other variable name conventions (in metadata). Open question: what to do with non-standard latin characters? [To be resolved in 0.1.3].
• canonical_names() is renamed to label_suggest() and has unit tests.
• naming functions is renamed to labelling functions with the British spelling.
• Three new Eurobarometer sample files to be used in vignettes and unit testing: ZA7489_sample, ZA7576_sample, ZA7562_sample. These samples contain countries that require special attention (DE, GB, CY, MK), some metadata, some demograpy variables, some trending (trust) variables and some ad hoc variables.
• read_example_file() is a simple wrapper around utils::data() to mimick the data importing workflow with haven::read_spss() or other importing functions in vignette examples and unit tests.
• panel_create() creates a skeleton panel with a unique panel id made of selected ID variables, such as the individually unique case ID and the doi of the survey.
• gesis_metadata_create() can now take either a list of surveys, or a single survey data frame as an input, and returns the filename in a column. Two new columns, the filename and the suggested question block is added to the metadata (see Workflow)
• gesis_metadata_create() is replaced with the more generic read_surveys().
• Started continuous integration on Travis-CI.

eurobarometer 0.1.3

• id_create tests unicity and panel_create() is a wrapper around it.

eurobarometer 0.1.4

• read_surveys ( my_spss_files, .f= 'read_spss_survey') now reads in a list of surveys with recording user-specified SPSS missing values.

eurobarometer 0.1.5

• harmonize_value_labels() is harmonizing (hopefully) all binary categorical values. The workflow vignette is updated.

eurobarometer 0.1.6

• Definition of new class with the constructor eurobarometer_labelled()

eurobarometer 0.1.7

• Preliminary analysis of the vocabulary of 97 SPSS files (corresponding to 97 Eurobarometer waves): standardization of spelling of common (and often abbreviated) words in variable labels, tokenization of variable labels, creation of a doc-term matrix for variable labels, creation of preliminary standardized variable names.

eurobarometer 0.1.8

• Serveral functions were deprecated: concatenate, unique_id_create, harmonize_to_numeric, eurobarometer_labelled and the workflow vignette and the NUTS1 and NUTS2 vocabulary files.

eurobarometer 0.1.10

Fully harmonized with retroharmonize 0.1.1.

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