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Version 0.9.2

No change.

Version 0.9.1

For users updating solely from CRAN, this is a major update. Many changes were introduced since version 0.8.8 (versions 0.8.9 and 0.9.0 were released solely on GitHub). Please refer to the README file, the two vignettes and the information below for all the details.

In this version:

• stby() (or byst()), a summarytools-specific version of by(), is introduced. It is highly recommended that you use it instead of by(); its syntax is identical and it greatly simplifies the printing of the generated objects
• In dfSummary():
  • 'max.tbl.height' allows printing summaries in scrollable windows (useful in .Rmd when a data frame contains numerous variables)
  • setting 'tmp.img.dir' allows the inclusion of png graphs in Rmarkdown documents when using pander method in combination with arguments plain.ascii = FALSE and style = "grid"
  • Platform-specific png device types are used, improving image quality
• Several examples are added to all main functions; use the example() function to access them

Version 0.9.0

• Output translations are introduced. For instance, setting st_options(lang='fr') gives access to French translations. Spanish ('es') translations are also available.
• Function useTranslations() allows using custom translations; see the introductory vignette for details
• In descr(), the weighting variable (when used) is automatically removed from the list of variables to analyze
• In dfSummary(), images are processed using functions from the magick package, improving the general layout of the output tables
• Improved support for magrittr operators

Version 0.8.9

• In dfSummary():
  • Number of columns and number of duplicates added to the headings section
  • Integer sequences as well as UPC/EAN codes are detected and identified
  • Statistics for unary / binary data are simplified
  • Bar charts now reflect frequencies across variables
• In descr(), the 'stats' parameter accepts values "common" and "fivenum"
• With st_options(), setting multiple options at once is now possible; all options have their own parameter (the legacy way of setting options is still supported)
• More parameters can be overridden when calling print() or view() - refer to the print() method's documentation to learn more

Two somewhat backward-compatibility breaking changes:

• The 'omit.headings' parameter is replaced by the more straightforward (and still boolean) 'headings'. The former is still supported but will disappear in a future release (possibly 0.9.2)
• Row subsetting is no longer displayed in the headings section, as it was error-prone

Special thanks to Paul Feitsma for his numerous suggestions.

Version 0.8.8

• Fixed character encoding issues
• In dfSummary():
  • Fixed an issue with dfSummary() where reported percentages could exceed 100% under specific circumstances
  • Fixed issue with groups not being properly updated when used in Shiny apps

Version 0.8.7

• Fixed an issue with dfSummary() when missing values were present along with whole numbers
• Fixed an issue with descr() where group was not shown for the first group when omitting headings

Version 0.8.6

• In dfSummary():
  • "Label" column now shows proper line breaks in the html versions
  • In lists of values / frequencies, digits are omitted for integer variables and for numerics containing whole numbers only
  • Fixed an error when using the pipe (%>%) operator
• In descr(), fixed a calculation error for coefficient of variation (cv)
• In ctable() html outputs, '<' and '>' are properly escaped when appearing in row or column names

Version 0.8.5

• In dfSummary():
  • Time intervals in dfSummary() now use lubridate::as.period()
  • Line feeds in ASCII barplots now displayed correctly
  • String trimming is applied consistently
• In ctable(), argument 'useNA' now correctly accepts value "no"

Version 0.8.4

• Method for calculating number of bins in dfSummary() histograms changed (from nclass.FD() to nclass.Sturges())
• Removed extra space in dfSummary() with time objects
• Allowed one more value for frequency counts in dfSummary() when "[1 other value]" was displayed; this actual value is now displayed instead

Version 0.8.3

• Introduced global options with st_options()
• In all functions, argument 'split.table' becomes 'split.tables' as per changes in the 'pander' package
• Argument 'omit.headings' added to all main functions
• New logical options for freq(): 'totals' and 'display.nas'
• In descr(), Q1 and Q3 were added; also, the order in the 'stats' argument is now reflected in the output table
• In dfSummary():
  • Number alignment improvements
  • Fixed frequencies not appearing when value 0 was present
  • Fixed arguments 'valid.col' and 'na.col' being unresponsive
  • Fixed warnings when generating graphics columns
  • 'graph.magnif' argument now allows shrinking or enlarging graphs
• For print() and view(), argument 'html.table.class' is now called 'table.classes' and its usage is simplified (please refer to the corresponding help files for details
• CSS class 'st-small' can be used to make html tables smaller by slightly reducing font size and cell padding

Version 0.8.2

• Fixed performance issue with numerical data having a very large range
• Fixed missing line feeds in dfSummary() bar charts
• Added support for Date / POSIXt objects in dfSummary()
• Improved support for lapply() when used with freq()

Version 0.8.1

• Added vignettes
• Improved handling of negative column indexing by the parsing function
• Fixed issue with all-NA factors in dfSummary()
• Fixed issues with graphs in dfSummary()
• Removed accentuated characters from docs

Version 0.8.0

• Introducing graphs in dfSummary()
• Improved alignment of numbers in both html and ASCII tables
• Cleanup in css and upgrade to Bootstrap 4 beta
• Added rudimentary support for lapply() to be used with freq()
• Improved support for by() and with() with descr(), freq(), and ctable()

Backward-compatibility notes: in dfSummary(), parameter name 'display.labels' has been changed to 'labels.col', for consistency reasons. Also, see Notes for Version 0.6.9 about the 'file' parameter.

Version 0.7.0

Another GitHub-only release

• Improved alignment in cells having counts + proportions
• Updated vignette to reflect latest changes and added examples using the example datasets "exams" and "tobacco"
• dfSummary()'s last column now includes counts and percentages for both valid and missing data
• Internal change: Roxygen2 is now used to generate documentation

Version 0.6.9

In this GitHub-only release:

• Introduced ctable() for cross-tabulations
• Extended support for printing objects created using by() and/or with(): variable names, labels and by-groups are now displayed correctly
• view() is now more than just a wrapper function for the print() method; it is the function to use when printing an object created with by()
• Appending to summarytools-generated html files is now possible
• Most pander options stored in summarytools objects can be overridden by print() or view()
• freq() has an new parameter, 'order', allowing to order rows by count rather than values
• Alignment of numbers in descr() observations table has been improved

An important change causing a minor break in backward compatibility: the 'file' parameter must now be used with print() or view(); its use with other functions is now deprecated.

Version 0.6.5

• Fixed a problem with dfSummary() which arose when number of factor levels exceeded max.distinct.values
• Improved the way dfSummary() reports frequencies for character variables
• Fixed problems with outputs when using weights
• Added hash markup to table headings for better markdown integration
• Added an option to the print() method to suppress the footnote in HTML outputs

Version 0.6

• Added Introductory vignette
• Fixed markdown output that would not render strings such as
• Improved multiline tables line feeds
• Improved sample datasets
• Removed Bootstrap content not likely to be used
• Changed the way method = "browser" sends file path to browser for better cross-platform compatibility
• Improved results when using by()

Version 0.5

For this GitHub-only release:

• Function descr() now supports weights
• Output from what.is() has been simplified
• Other changes are transparent to the user, but make the internals more consistent across functions

Version 0.4

Added cat() functions to fully support knitr's document generation. Also added sample datasets so that users can experiment using summarytools functions with them. freq() now supports weights.

Version 0.3

Another round of major changes

• Bringing in HTML table built with htmltools and viewable in RStudio's Viewer
• Function desc() is renamed descr() (mainly to avoid conflict with plyr::desc())
• Argument 'echo' is deprecated; either display with pander or use as.table()
• Returned objects are now of class "summarytools" and have several attributes that are used by print.summarytools()
  • st.type : one of "freq", "descr" and "dfSummary"
  • date : date at which the function was called
  • var.name and var.label : for freq(), and also descr() when a single vector is used
  • pander.args : "style", "justify", "plain.ascii", "split.table"
• print.summarytools() has argument 'method' that can be one of "pander", "viewer", or "browser", the last two being used to display an HTML version of the output, using Bootstrap's css (https://getbootstrap.com)
• Row indexing is "detected" and reported (function .parse.arg.x() takes care of this)
• Rounding now only occurs at the printing stage

Version 0.2

Several major changes since version 0.1

• unistats() is now called desc()
• frequencies() is now called freq()
• properties() is now called prop()
• Shortcuts have been added to keep backward-compatibility
• desc() now accepts data frames as first argument; factors and character columns will be ignored
• desc() can be transposed to suit one's preferences
• freq() just returns a matrix-table, not a list anymore
• In desc() and freq(), no more argument 'display.label'. Those are displayed automatically when present
• rapportools is used instead of Hmisc for variable labels
• Function properties() was removed for now. May be reintegrated in a future version

Initial Release

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