News

version 0.2.6

• New methods 'all' and 'any' for 'validation' objects
• New 'plot' method for 'validator' objects.
• New 'plot' method for 'validation' objects.
• New 'as.data.frame' methods for 'validatorComparison' and 'cellComparison' objects.
• New 'plot' method for 'validatorComparison' and 'cellComparison' objects.
• New 'barplot' method for 'validatorComparison' and 'cellComparison' objects.
• Improved 'plot'/'barplot' method for objects of class 'validator'.
• Bugfixes in 'cells' and 'compare'.
• The row order of output in 'cells' has changed to be more consistent with row order in the output of 'compare'.
• The row 'new_missing' is renamed 'removed' in 'cellComparison' objects.
• Improved cross-references in reference manual

version 0.2.5

• Documentation updates (Thanks to Matthias Gomolka)
• Removed deprecated functions 'number_missing', 'fraction_missing', 'row_missing', 'number_unique', 'any_dunplicated', 'any_missing'.
• Bugfix: the 'call' object in a 'confrontation' object was created incorrectly. This only affects printing.

version 0.2.4

• New set membership operator "%vin%", behaving consistently with "=="
• Set membership operator %in% is now replaced with %vin% (#80).
• Added [[<- and [<- methods for validator objects.
• Validation rules can now be endowed with user-defined metadata, see ?meta (#59).
• fixed (harmless) compiler warning (thanks to Brian Ripley)
• bugfix: empty [] selection on expressionset crashed (thanks to Anne Petersen)
• bugfix: NA in validating expression would crash parser (thanks to Masafumi Okada)

version 0.2.0

• new object of class 'indicator'
• validation rules now support if-then-else syntax.
• validaton rules can now contain embedded if-statements, e.g. A | (if (B) C)
• expressionset objects (validator, indicator) can be combined using '+'
• results of getter functions (e.g. 'labels') are now named.
• less verbose printng of options for expressionset objects (validator, indicator)
• expressionset objects (validator, indicator) can now be coerced to as.data.frame.
• confrontation objects (validation, indication) can now be coerced to data.frame.
• safer expression manipulation under the hood.
• breaking: 'rule' column now called 'name' in summary of 'confrontation' objects.
• bugfix: character indexing with multiple elements of expressionset objects would crash.
• bugfix: proper recycling for replace methods in expressionset.

version 0.1.8

• Added loggers for the 'lumberjack' package: lbj_cells and lbj_rules
• Tolerance for checking (non-strict) linear inequalities is now controlled by voptions(lin.ineq.opts).
• Macro assignments through := are no longer put in brackets.

version 0.1.7

• The missingess counters are now only internally documented and will be deprecated (the introduction of the '.' made them more or less obsolete).
• Package now 'depends' on methods to allow dispatch on objects inhereting from data.frame
• bugfix: The assignment created() <- was broken. #65, thanks to Andrew R Gibson.
• bugfix: Simple equallity checks on character data behaved unexpectedly. #67, thanks to Kevin Kuo.
• Native routines now registered as required by updated CRAN policy.

version 0.1.5

• The '.' is now used to reference the validated data set as whole.
• Small change in output of 'compare' to match the table in van den Broek et al. (2013)
• registered native routines as now recommended by CRAN

version 0.1.4

• 'confront' now emits a warining when variable name conflicts with name of a reference data set
• Deprecated 'validate_reset', in favour of the shorter 'reset' (use 'validate::reset' in case of ambiguity)
• Deprecated 'validate_options' in favour of the shorter 'voptions'
• New option na.value with default value NA, controlling the output when a rule evaluates to NA.
• Added rules from the ESSnet on validation (deliverable 17) to automated tests.
• added 'grepl' to allowed validation syntax (suggested by Dusan Sovic)
• exported a few functions w/ keywords internal for extensibility
• Bugfix: blocks sometimes reported wrong nr of blocks (in case of a single connected block.)
• Bugfix: macro expansion failed when macros were reused in other macros.
• Bugfix: certain nonlinear relations were recognized as linear
• Bugfix: rules that use (anonymous) function definitions raised error when printed.

version 0.1.3

• initial release

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