NEWS.md

In jacobkap/asciiReader: Reads Fixed-Width ASCII Data Files (.txt or .dat) that Have Accompanying Setup Files (.sps or .sas)

asciiSetupReader 2.5.2

• Removes startup message

asciiSetupReader 2.5.1

• Adds startup message

asciiSetupReader 2.5.0

• In column names now replaces "<" with "under", ">" with "over", "$" with "dollar", "+" with "plus", "@" with "at". Previously these values would be replaced by "_".

asciiSetupReader 2.4.0

• Adds functionality to handle "low thru" missing values.
• "low thru" and "thru high" missing values are now less (more) than and equal to rather than just less (more) than the value.

asciiSetupReader 2.3.2

• Fix bug on reading an atypical .sps file.

asciiSetupReader 2.3.1

• Fix bug caused by vroom not handling embedded nulls.
• Fix bug where code would run even if start column number > end column number, but would crash code later.
• Fix bug where code wouldn't run if .sps setup file read MISSING VALUE rather than MISSING VALUES.
• Fix bug when value label is "X thru highest value". Now will change all values >= X to be NA.

asciiSetupReader 2.3.0

• Misc. bug fixes.
• Change package to read in fixed-width files from readr to vroom to significantly increase read time.

asciiSetupReader 2.2.0

• Adds an addin to use the read_ascii_setup() function interactively. This allows users to select every option in the popup window.

asciiSetupReader 2.1.0

• Reorder list of value labels returned from parse_setup to be in same order as in setup file.
• Misc. bug fixes and many new tests.

asciiSetupReader 2.0.2

• Misc. bug fixes.

asciiSetupReader 2.0.1

• Fix problem where package didn't work with dev version of Haven.

asciiSetupReader 2.0.0

Major Changes

• Adds a single function (read_ascii_setup) that will read in data for both .dat+.sps and .dat+.sas pairs. This is just a helper function that calls spss_ascii_reader or sas_ascii_reader.
• Adds function to create sps setup files.
• Adds capacity for .sas reader to handle missing values.
• Adds a function for users to parse the setup file (.sps or .sas) and get results. An accompanying vignette explains this function.
• Adds a function to make your own .sps files (not .sas yet).

Minor Changes

• Adds option to not coerce potentially numeric columns into numeric type. Useful in cases like dealing with Census FIPS codes that have leading zeros.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.
• Fixes bug when missing values are an interval (e.g. -1 thru -8).

asciiSetupReader 1.4.0

• Adds capacity to the SPSS reader to handle Missing Values.
• Fixes bug where function fails if no value-labels are detected.
  • Applies both when setup file has no value-labels and if only select columns that have no value-labels.
• Adds a huge number of tests.
• Changes factor column to character columns.

jacobkap/asciiReader documentation built on Aug. 18, 2024, 6:33 a.m.