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A new object-oriented infrastructure for the creation of HTML code
is used in format_html methods. This infrastructure is exposed
by the html function.
Support for with model groups in mtable. c.mtable now creates
groups of models, if arguments are tagged.
Flattened contingency tables (ftables as they are created
by the eponymous function in the stats package) can now be
combined into ftable_matrix objects. This can be done by
using rbind() or cbind().
Set dependency to R version >= 3.0 for this is needed for knitr vignettes.
str and ls.str are imported from the
utils package to prevent a NOTE in R CMD check
All vignettes are now using knitr.
The function UnZip has been removed from the package. unzip in conjunction with
system.file does the same job, as can be seen in the example for spss.portable.file.
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.
Also data frames can be exported into HTML.
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
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.
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, data frames and other objects.
A new percentages function is added to allow easy creation of tables of percentages.
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.
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.
Stata.file now can import Stata 9 and Stata 10 files.
Argument drop no longer used by function mtable.
Format of file produced by write.mtable can now be
specified using a format= argument. But forLaTeX=TRUE
still can be used to get LaTeX files.
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.
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.
getSummary.expCoef is renamed into getSummary_expCoef.
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.