Changes for iNZightTools

iNZightTools 1.11

  • use srvyr package to handle survey designs using dplyr-like syntax
    • aggregateData(), filterNumeric(), filterLevels(), filterRows(), ...
  • remove redundant code from filterLevels() to make it more concise (using droplevels())
  • add method to convert survey design-like objects to iNZight's inzsvyspec format
  • suppress printing of dataset when joining data
  • fix bug where special characters in levels during collapseLevels() cause error
  • add new form_class_intervals() function
  • update import_survey() to handle URL as the data argument
  • fix bug in reorderLevels(..., freq = TRUE) (#165, @tmelliott)

iNZightTools 1.10

  • refactor aggregateData function to improve flexibility
  • new import_survey() function for importing a survey design (and data) from a specification file (in TOML format)

iNZightTools 1.9.1

  • fix bug in reading delim files where, if first 1000+ rows of a column were NA, the column was read as logical instead of character (this is a fixed behaviour of readr, so cannot be overridden)

iNZightTools 1.9.0

Minor version bump to align with release of iNZight 4.0.

  • add functions for reading survey design from a file (and applying to dataset)
  • add support for reading JSON files
  • add new selectVars function
  • add negative binomial as an option for family in fitModel
  • add %notin% operator to more easily/readably check ! x %in% y

iNZightTools 1.8.6

  • ensure non-numeric values are returned as factors by read_text()

iNZightTools 1.8.5

  • increase nmax for previews to 100 (from 10)
  • use forcats::fct_cross() with optional argument keep_empty

iNZightTools 1.8.4

  • fix handling of special characters in column names (spaces replaces with underscores, all others replaced with a period (.))
  • create make_names() function (previously from 'iNZight') to create unique new variable names for columns in a data.frame

iNZightTools 1.8.3

  • new add_suffix() function to smartly add suffixes to object names and append counter if suffix is already present
  • edit package description to meet CRAN standards

iNZightTools 1.8.2

  • fix issues from CRAN submission

iNZightTools 1.8.1

  • new read_text() function to read from text string/clipboard
  • smart_read() now supports URLs by downloading to a temporary file, with the same name
  • Extract from datetime no longer includes space in 2010M01, etc. so it works correctly with iNZightTS
  • Reshape (wide to long) returns a factor to work with the rest of iNZight

iNZightTools 1.8

Release date: 11 November 2019

  • ensure column_types argument is respected
  • if no col types specified, pass col_types = cols() to suppress the col spec messages
  • new load_rda() function which loads all data frames in an rda file into a list
  • new save_rda()) function allows saving of a data set to a file, optionally with a different name (i.e., the actual object name can be changed)
  • smart_read() now handles RDS files
  • add attribute to preview excel containing names of available sheets

iNZightTools 1.7.4

Release date: 2 September 2019

  • fix bug where collapsing a "numeric" factor was giving an error
  • fix bug in reordering same factor twice

iNZightTools 1.7.3

Release date: 26 August 2019

  • fixes bug where factor order specified by metadata wasn't being respected
  • fix bug preventing first row of metadata comments to be read if description was missing

iNZightTools 1.7.2

Release date: 15 July 2019

  • various bug fixes

iNZightTools 1.7.1

Release date: 30 April 2019

  • add appveyor ci
  • add code tidying functionality
  • import SAS files (.sas7bdat and .xpt)
  • validate datasets
  • join data using *_join()
  • join data by rows
  • reshape data from long to wide, and vice versa
  • convert characters to factors (this is how iNZight does things)
  • respect numerical order in factor conversions

iNZightTools 1.6.3

Release date: 15 November 2018

  • [fix] prefix survey:: namespace to function calls

iNZightTools 1.6.2

Release date: 10 September 2018

  • fix a bug in reading csv files with spaces in the header

iNZightTools 1.6.1

Release date: 04 September 2018

  • fix bug in reading metadata where non-meta comments would cancel read

iNZightTools 1.6

Release date: 14 August 2018

Breaking Changes

  • data import is now performed by the smart_read() function

Minor Changes and Fixes

  • new function to generate R variable names (for code writing)
  • various bug fixes

Version 1.5

Release date: 23 January 2018

Tidyverse and Code Writing

  • data manipulation functions rewritten using tidyverse functions/workflow
  • functions written such that the code is generated and evaluated, allowing the code history to be obtained

Patches

Patch 1.5.1 - 21/02/2018

  • fix tiny bug in encoding default that prevented non-UTF-8 files from reading

Patch 1.5.2 - 22/02/2018

  • fix a bug where timezone NA on macs prevented reading data

Patch 1.5.3 - 12/03/2018

  • fix a bug in csv reading on macos

Version 1.4

Release date: 25 August 2017

  • Code history features: interpolate code
  • Re-document package; pass CRAN checks
  • start converting data modification functions to tidyverse

Patches

Version 1.4-1, 02/10/2017

  • fixes to pass CRAN checks

Version 1.3

Release date: 23 March 2017

  • NEW import data function, as well as support for metadata at the top of text files
  • Various bug fixes

Version 1.2

Release date: 5 September, 2016

  • New device function uses the cairo device on Linux

Patch 1.2.1 - 3 February, 2017

  • Only use the Acinonyx package on Mac (crashes R on Linux)

Patch 1.2.2 - 18 February, 2017

  • Stop using type = "nbcairo" as macOS fallback in newdevice()

Version 1.1

  • Directly access svydesign function. Temporary fix until package gets a more significant revamp.

Version 1.0

Initial release.