April 27, 2015 Software Open Access

wakefield: wakefield 0.1.0

Tyler Rinker

NEWS Versioning

Releases will be numbered with the following semantic versioning format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
• New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
• Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch

<b>BUG FIXES</b>

• employment was misspelled as empoyment. Caught by Danilo Freire (issue #2).

<b>NEW FEATURES</b>

• r_list & r_data_frame now add a suffix to repeat variable names in a sensible way. The separator is controlled by rep.sep. Suggested by Ananda Mahto. See issue #1 for details.

• r_list and r_data_frame can utilize r_series and r_dummy to produce series of variables. Suggested by Ananda Mahto. See issue #1 for details.

• r_series added to produce a series of grouped data. This is useful for simulating repeated measures or survey questions. Suggested by Ananda Mahto. See issue #1 for details.

• as_integer added as a means of coercing all columns of a factor data.frame to integers.

• r_dummy added to produce multiple dummy columns from a single factor.

• dob and birth functions added for date of birth variable.

• peek added to allow a truncated head inspection of all columns of a data.frame.

• table_heat & plot.tbl_df added to visualize column types & NAs.

• r_insert added to safely insert data.frames into a r_data_frame or r_list object.

<b>MINOR FEATURES</b>

• seriesname function added to give a data.frame an attribute seriesname. Typicaly this is for internal use.

IMPROVEMENTS

<b>CHANGES</b>

This package is designed to generates random data sets including: data.frames, lists, and vectors.