NEWS.md

In jbryer/likert: Analysis and Visualization Likert Items

likert 2.0.1

• Documentation fixes per CRAN request.
• likert.density.plot has been deprecated.
• Added likert_anchors dataset and vignette.

likert 2.0

• Many fixed to be compatible with the latest version of ggplot2.
• Added digits parameter to plot for heatmaps.
• Now check to ensure grouping variable does not have any missing values.
• Print a warning if any variables are not factors.
• New Shiny app that allows for interactively manipulate Likert options.

likert 1.3.6

• Fixed a bug where the labels were placed on the wrong side.
• Now require ggplot2 versions greater than 2.2.0.

likert 1.3.5

• Fixed a bug where stacked bars were in the wrong order in grouped plots.
• Plotting options are now passed as a list. The likert.options returns the default set of plotting options.

likert 1.3.4

• Fixed a bug where the neutral labels would be printed twice when there were an odd number of levels and plot.percents = TRUE.
• Fixed a bug where the results for a grouped analysis with missing levels may not be correct in the print function.

likert 1.3.3

• Update for ggplot2 version 2.0

likert 1.3.2

• Removed all use of the reshape package.
• Fixes issue 40 where the histogram bars may not match the likert bars.

likert 1.3.1

• Fix to work with the latest version of the xtable package.

likert 1.3.0

• Added ability to group items by factor.
• Converted all uses of reshape to reshape2.
• Other fixes to pass R CMD CHECK.

likert 1.2.1

• Added colors parameter to plot.likert.bar to define custom colors for levels.
• Fixed bug where an unused factor level would not appear in the legend.

likert 1.2

• Added initial support for conducting gap analysis. A demo, GapAnalysis has also been added.
• Removed dependency on a non-exported function in ggplot2.
• Can now create a likert object with a pre-summarized data frame.
• New Shiny app to demonstrate many of the features in the likert package. The shinyLikert() function will start the app.
• Fixed bug where text.color parameter was not being used.
• Fixed bug 16.
• Fixed bug where automatic conversion to factors would not work if there were missing levels in an item.
• Added text labels to the histogram (if include.histogram=TRUE) for the n.
• Fixed a bug where plot.likert(..., include.histogram=TRUE) would not work with a group and only one item (i.e. one column).
• Updates for newer version of R and Roxygen.

likert 1.1

Released September 25, 2013.

• New density plot type plot(l, type='density').
• xtable function to create LaTeX and HTML tables.
• Added several parameters related to centering bar plots. Can now include the center level and split across zero, or specify which level, or between which levels, centering occurs.
• Plot a histogram of responses (n) alongside the barplot.
• Summary function now includes neutral column. Values will be NA if no level is the center.
• If there is a neutral category in the bar plot it will be labeled with its percentage.
• Added parameter to wrap text in plots for long item names.
• Changed the default colors.
• Added parameter to change legend title.
• Can now plot bar plot panels horizontally.
• Changed the center=TRUE as the default for bar plots to.
• Added panel.flip to flip the placement of grouping elements and items.
• Added legend.position parameter.
• Added panel.strip.color to change the background color for panel labels.
• Added group.order to reorder how groups are plotted. This also works for items in non-grouped items.
• Added parameters to turn off percent labels for low, high, and netural separately.
• Added a check to ensure all factors have the same number of levels.
• Items (i.e columns) that are not a factor will be converted to a factor using as.factor.
• Added reverse.levels function to reverse code factors. Useful when you wish to plot bars in reverse order (left-to-right).
• Two new demos, RecodeFactors and UnusedLevels show how to deal with common data issues before using the likert function.
• Added plot.percents parameter to label each category.
• Other bug fixes.

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