Data Science for Psychologists (ds4psy R package version 0.8.5)

Welcome to the R package ds4psy — a software companion to the book and course Data Science for Psychologists.

This R package provides datasets and functions used in the ds4psy book. The book and course introduce the principles and methods of data science for students of psychology and other biological or social sciences.

Release of ds4psy (0.8.5) on GitHub adds functionality, implements minor changes, and fixes some bugs. [2022-10-20]

Changes since last release:

Major changes

• add base2dec() and dec2base() functions for converting numerals into non-decimal notations, and back.
• add chars_to_text() and text_to_chars() functions for converting character vectors into text, and back.

Minor changes

• add rseed argument to map_text_regex() and plot_chars() for reproducible results.
• add collapse_chars() as a wrapper around paste() with a collapse argument.
• rearrange contents (by creating dedicated utility files).

Details

• fix minor bugs.

The current development version of ds4psy is hosted at https://github.com/hneth/ds4psy/.