Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

codebook 0.8.0 Unreleased

Changes

  • removed three vignettes
  • calculate reliability using userfriendlyscience instead of Cronbach’s Alpha and correlations
  • make it easier to generate compact codebooks
  • hide machine-readable metadata in details tags (toggle to view)
  • plot number of characters for character variables
  • update explanations in web app slightly
  • reduce survey-specific language

Bugfixes

  • make it less likely that unique/private values are disclosed (e.g., free text)

codebook 0.7.6 2019-01-08

Bugfixes

  • changed vignette titles (one was duplicated)

codebook 0.7.5 2018-12-04

Bugfixes

  • import/export knit_print generic from knitr

codebook 0.7.4 2018-11-24

Additions

  • Function new_codebook_rmd creates a new file in your working directory with a codebook template.
  • Function metadata can be used to set dataset-level metadata before rendering a codebook (valid attributes will carry over to JSON-LD representation)
  • Compliance with Google Dataset Search, see examples

Changes

  • removed zap_label because haven 2.0.0 has this function
  • added several functions to add JSON-LD compliant metadata and to show it in the codebook
  • removed some non-standard attributes from the JSON-LD metadata so that datasets will be indexed in Google Dataset Search
  • work with haven 2.0.0’s changed class names
  • play nice with userfriendlyscience::makeScales attributes
  • improved binning and wrapping in plot_labelled
  • removed the mice dependency to reduce the number of dependencies

Bugfixes

  • detect_missing reset variable label with the new haven version (only between 0.6.3.9000 and 0.7.0, never on CRAN)
  • reverse_labelled_values mislabelled values, if there were labelled missing values (numbers were correct)

codebook 0.6.3 2018-08-01

Additions

  • Vignettes for
    • documenting the expected attribute structure, how to add metadata in R
    • importing metadata from SPSS or Stata files
    • importing metadata from Qualtrics as made available by qualtRics package
  • Importing some functions from labelled package to add metadata
  • Default method for haven::as_factor when labelled class is absent

Changes

  • Changed the scale summary, so that Likert plots and distributions are shown on the first tab. Reliability now hidden under “Reliability details”.
  • removed unnecessary readr dependency.

Bugfixes

  • summarising factors in a table
  • turning off components of the codebook without empty strings being echoed
  • allow using variable and value labels in the absence of the labelled class (as imported by rio for example)

codebook 0.6.2 2018-07-26

Additions

  • Three RStudio Addin Shinyapps to browse variable labels and codebook.

Bug fix

  • Specify a mice dependency that doesn’t break degenerate test cases.

codebook 0.5.9 2018-05-22

Additions

  • plot_labelled now makes better plots for numeric variables
  • codebook generation has been parallelised using the future package. By calling e.g. plan(multicore(workers = 4)) before the codebook function, the computation of reliabilities and the generation of scale and item summaries will happen in parallel. For this to work with plots, you have to choose a graphics device in knitr that supports parallelisation, by calling e.g. opts_chunk$set(dev = "CairoPNG").
  • for variables that store multiple multiple choice values comma-separated, we now separate the values before plotting, if that item attribute attributes(item)$item$type contains “multiple”
  • make it easier to trace which variable in a dataset cannot be summarised
  • added and document aggregate_and_document_scale for people who don’t import data via formr.org and want reliabilities to be calculated automatically
  • use rio to import all kinds of file formats in the webapp

Bug fixes

  • fix bugs in plot_labelled
  • fix bugs when variables are entirely missings
  • escape HTML in various labels, use safe names for anchors, figures
  • reliability functions no longer garble names
  • require skimr >= 1.0.2 and ggplot2 >= 2.0.0

codebook 0.5.8 2018-03-21

  • don’t write files into anything but tempdir

codebook 0.5.7 Unreleased

  • changed description and documentation

codebook 0.5.6 Unreleased

  • changed license to MIT

codebook 0.5.5 Unreleased

  • improved documentation
  • more tests

codebook 0.4.4 Unreleased

  • wrote some tests
  • tried to please goodpractice::gp()
  • removed some cruft