0.98.8

CHANGES SINCE 0.98.5

NEW FEATURES

• mtable gains the following optional aguments:
• show.baselevel, which allows to suppress the display of
  baseline categories of dummy variables, when dummy variable
  coefficients are displayed
• sdigits, to specify the number of digits of summary
  statistics.
• gs.options, to pass optional arguments to getSummary,
  allowin for more flexibility in creating tables.

One can now use a summaryTemplate generic function for formatting
model summaries, in addition to set the template by
setSummaryTemplate. Finally, parts of "mtables" can be extracted
using the [ operator as with matrices, and "mtables" can now also
be concatenated.

0.98.5

CHANGES SINCE 0.98.2

NEW FEATURES

• A function dsView is added, which allows a display of data.set objects similar as View displays data frames.
• mtable now handles multi-equation models better, in particular if the model objects supplied as arguments vary in the number and/or names of the equations. There is also a new option to place confidence intervals to the right of coefficient estimates. Further mtable gains a show.baselevel options, which allows to suppress the display of baseline categories of dummy variables, when dummy variable coefficients are displayed. One can now use a summaryTemplate generic function for formatting model summaries, in addition to set the template by setSummaryTemplate. There is also a new argument sdigits for mtable formatting method functions.
• There is now an object class for survey items containing dates, called "datetime.item"
• There is a new function wild.codes to check wild codes (i.e. unlabelled codes of an otherwise labelled item.)
• codebook now supports data frames, factors, and numeric vectors.
• A toLatex method exists now for data.set objects.

BUGFIXES

• applyTemplate now returns empty strings for undefined quantities.
• collect method for data.sets now works as expected.
• spss.fixed.file now checks whether there are undefined variables in varlab.file etc.

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

• Argument drop no longer used by function mtable.

v0.98.2

Changes since 0.97

NEW FEATURES

• Support for exporting results of various functions into HTML format is now supported by the function format_html. This should make it easier to import them into HTML or word-processing documents (that support importing HTML). A preview of the HTML is made available by the new (generic) function show_html. In particular, results of the functions mtable (i.e. tables of model estimates), ftable (i.e. flattened contingency tables etc.), and codebooks, can be exported int HTML using format_html

BUGFIXES

• spss.fixed.file is now able to handle labelled strings and value labels and missing values statements.
• Internal C-code used by spss.fixed.file no longer assumed that arguments are copied - some strange behaviour of objects created by spss.fixed.file is now corrected.
• Description of items in external data sources is more complete now - the same information as for items in internal data.sets.

DEFUNCT

• The functions Termplot, Simulate, and panel.errbars are defunct. Graphics similar to those built with panel.errbars can be created with facilities provided by the package "mplot", which is currently available on GitHub.

v0.97

NEW FEATURES

• spss.system.file and spss.portable.file gain a tolower= argument that defaults to TRUE, which allows to change annoying all-upper-case variable names to lower case
• New generic function Iconv() that allows to change the character enconding of variable descriptions and value labels. It has methods for "data.set", "importer", "item", "annotation", and "value.label" objects.
• There is now a method of as.character() for "codebook" objects and a convenience function Write() with methods for "codebook" and "description" to make it more convenient to direct the output of codebook() and description() into text files.
• A method for "merMod" objects of the getSummary() generic function. mtable() now should be able (again) to handle estimation results produced by lmer() and glmer() from package "lme4".
• recode() handles character vectors in a more convenient way: They are converted into factors with sorted unique values (after recoding) as levels.

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

• getSummary.expCoef() is renamed into getSummary_expCoef().

DEFUNCT

• S3 method aggregate.formula() has been removed from the package to avoid clash with method of the same name in the base package. The function Aggregate() can be used instead.
• Removed include(), uninclude(), and detach.sources() as these are flagged as modifying the global namespace.