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In deepankardatta/blandr: Bland-Altman Method Comparison

This is version 0.5.1 of "blandr" This is a third version submission to CRAN

Changes to 0.5.1

In response to web checks (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_blandr.html) which were only highlighted in Solaris and Linux versions of blandr when tested. Changed some functions to test the availability of ggplot2, and if not stops execution of the function. Further the auto report function checks for the existence of pandoc, and again stops if not found. In response to further comments, the blandr.output.report function has been overhauled to not use temporary files - instead of rmarkdown::render, it uses rmarkdown::run to display the report instead

Changes in 0.5.0

Update libraries to have an autoreport function. The codebase also include code for a Jamovi module which can also be run in base R.

Changes in revised 0.4.3 in response to CRAN suggestions

Examples and more comments put into R files, so that roxygen2 can put into manual

Changes in 0.4.2 in response to CRAN suggestions

(1) "Suggestion: Bland-Altman Method Comparison"

Title changed to: "Bland-Altman Method Comparison" as suggested

(2) Adn you could not simply contribute to another package that implements the plot?

I started this as a group of functions for myself a long time ago for personal work, when there seemed to be no similar functions that would create the same work. As the code was already there I felt it would be good to share with the world.

The plotting functions are based on statistical functions already written, as the other packages didn't calculate the necessary summary statistics. I felt this would force complete re-writes of the already available packages, whereas this set of functions are already built to work together.

The package has the benefit that it concentrates on one thing: Bland-Altman method comparisons. Further it outputs ggplot code that can be customised by any user.

On top of this it means that I can maintain and improve on the code as needed, which I am to do.

(3) Is there some reference about the method you can add in the Description field in the form Authors (year) ?

I have changed the description to so: "Carries out Bland Altman analyses (also known as a Tukey mean-difference plot) as described by JM Bland and DG Altman in 1986 (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(86)90837-8). This package was created in 2015 as existing Bland-Altman analysis functions did not calculate confidence intervals. This package was created to rectify this, and create reproducible plots."

(4) write the DOI as

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Changes in the DESCRIPTION file

Test environments

• local OS X install, Mac OS X 10.12.5, R 3.5.0
• win-builder (devel and release) - via devtools::build_win()

R CMD check results

using R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23) using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) using session charset: UTF-8

R CMD check results 0 errors | 0 warnings | 0 notes

WinBuilder (devtools::build_win()) gives a note - not mis-spelled: Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: Jamovi (10:16)

revdep Warning message: 'DESCRIPTION' file has an 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible

Reverse dependencies

There are no reverse dependencies.

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