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eatTools 0.7.9

  • new exemplary dataset data.timss1 borrowed from the BIFIEsurvey package for illustration purposes of the checkBackgroundVariables() function
  • new function checkBackgroundVariables() checks the consistency of the variables in a data set if the variables belong to different groups, which in turn have different properties, for example ID variables, weighting variables, replication weights or covariates.
  • existsBackgroundVariables() now allows to check the number of variables entered if, for example, several items but only one ID may be defined for a data record. It also checks which variable groups may overlap and which may not.

eatTools 0.7.8

CRAN release: 2024-12-18

  • new function cleanifyString() removes non-alphanumeric characters and special characters from a string or factor variable

eatTools 0.7.7

CRAN release: 2024-10-11

  • minor bugfixes when integers are very large in addLeadingZerosToCharInt() (Previously an error message was displayed.)
  • minor bugfixes in the messages of mergeAttr()
  • recodeLookup() return the original vector if the the user does not provide any recode table (i.e., if the argument is NULL). (Previously an error message was displayed.)
  • minor bugfixes in the display of makeTria()
  • messages can be turned off in makeDataFrame()
  • package sticker added
  • bugfixes in gsubAll(): Does not longer allow using regular expressions (internally, gsub(..., fixed = TRUE) is used). Function now begins with the longest string to avoid repeated modifications if strings in “old” match each other. See function documentation for further details.

eatTools 0.7.6

CRAN release: 2024-04-05

  • add argument checks using the checkmate package
  • bugfix in halveString() for splitting at the last instance of a regular expression
  • new function rbind_fill_vector() allows rbind() for unidimensional vectors of unequal length, filling empty entries with NA
  • new operator %$$% works for lists similar to $ but gives error instead of NULL if the corresponding list element does not exist

eatTools 0.7.5

CRAN release: 2023-11-23

  • internal fixes to tests (removed language dependency)
  • new function makeTria() for internal use in eatTools and eatModel reshapes covariance/correlation matrices into triangular shape
  • added seq2() for sequence generation
  • adapt halveString() for patterns with more than 1 character
  • add messages to mergeAttr() if combinations of merge variables from one data set do not occur in the other data set
  • add messages to mergeAttr() if the two data.frames intended to merge contain additional common variables (beyond the by-variables)
  • makeDataFrame() gives warning/errors if data.frame has less rows than expected at the least.
  • existsBackgroundVariables() gives warning/errors if variables have missing values, depending on how critical the missing values are considered to be

eatTools 0.7.4

CRAN release: 2022-11-10

  • new function rbind_common() rbinds a list of data.frames and selects only common columns
  • bug fix in mergeAttr() when variables have more than one class
  • mergeAttr() gives warning if merging variables have NAs
  • optional colnames argument in halveString() function

eatTools 0.7.3

CRAN release: 2022-06-28

  • new function print_and_capture() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatCodebook packages allows for easy integration of (small) tables into (error) messages
  • added some unit tests

eatTools 0.7.2

CRAN release: 2022-05-05

  • new function makeDataFrame() for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages converts tibbles and data.tables to data.frame
  • new function mergeAttr() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages restores attributes after merging and provides messages if merging units are not unique or only partially matches
  • new function pwc() computes part-whole-correlation between an item and the whole scale (except this item)

eatTools 0.7.1

CRAN release: 2021-11-10

  • new function roundDF() rounds all numeric variables in a data.frame

eatTools 0.7.0

CRAN release: 2021-08-11

eatTools 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2021-07-06

  • new function readMultisep() reads in data.frames with separator characters >=1Byte
  • new function addLeadingZerosToCharInt() adds leading zeros to all columns that can be identified as integers in a character data.frame
  • bug fix in descr(). missing handling in variable when additional weights are used
  • bug fix in tablePattern() when additional weights are used

eatTools 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2021-02-09

  • new function recodeLookup() allows recoding of a variable based on a look up table
  • functionality of wideToLong() extended
  • Switch to Github Action for CI

eatTools 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2021-01-25

eatTools 0.3.8

CRAN release: 2020-10-19

eatTools 0.3.6

CRAN release: 2020-09-17

  • Initial CRAN release