News for Package 'papeR'

Changes in papeR version 1.0-6 (2025-04-01)

Miscellaneous

• Included original authors of functions that are used in a modified form in this package as contributors in Authors@R field in ‘DESCRIPTION’.

Bug-fixes

• Fixed links in manuals.

• Removed Travis-CI integration from ‘README.md’.

• Updated ‘inst/CITATION’ to new bibentry format.

• Added missing S3 methods for prettify.

• Fixed calls to S3 methods by correcting object names and adding ... where missing.

Changes in papeR version 1.0-5 (2021-03-19)

Bug-fixes

• Fixed error introduced by changes in survival: data(ovarian, package = "survival") was replaced with data(cancer, package = "survival").

Changes in papeR version 1.0-4 (2019-01-03)

Bug-fixes

• Fixed vignette (load knitr correctly).

• Added rmarkdown to Suggests:.

• Fixed handling of trailing zeros in prettify (fixes #40).

Changes in papeR version 1.0-3 (2018-09-11)

Bug-fixes

• Stop checking for specific error message (fixes #39).

• Make Rmarkdown happy (fixes #35).

Changes in papeR version 1.0-2 (2017-02-16)

Miscellaneous

• Updated maintainer's email address.

Bug-fixes

• Fix scoping in summarize function (fixes #33).

• Removed confint.lme to make CRAN happy (fixes #34).

• Fixed bug in label assignment with numerical which.

Changes in papeR version 1.0-1 (2016-04-08)

User-visible changes

• print.xtable.summary now also centers tables per default if floating = FALSE.

• Added support for Cox frailty models in prettify

• Fixed problem with include.rownames by ignoring the option (fixes #30).

• Use $-$ per default for negative numeric values (fixes #32).

Bug-fixes

• Make tests compatible with new testthat version (> 0.11.0).

• Fixed messages of old summary functions.

Changes in papeR version 1.0-0 (2015-12-01)

User-visible changes

• summarize produces summary tables that can be further processed with xtable or kable to produce LaTeX or Markdown tables, respectively (closes #2 and #3).

• latex.table.cont and latex.table.fac are now deprecated. Use summarize instead.

• labels() are now stored as attribute of the variable instead of as attribute of the data set (closes #1).

Miscellaneous

• Completely refactored code base.

• Added two vignettes (closes #7).

• The package is now extensively tested using testthat (closes #12).

Bug-fixes

• Adhere to CRAN policies regarding import of base packages (closes #8).

Changes in papeR version 0.6-1 (2015-06-09)

Miscellaneous

• Fixed ‘man/toLatex.Rd’: Changed \donttest to \dontrun

• ‘DESCRIPTION’ now uses single quotes for package and software names.

Bug-fixes

• Fixed ‘inst/CITATION’: Now it is possible to extract citation without the need to install the package.

Changes in papeR version 0.6-0 (2015-06-05)

User-visible changes

• latex.table.fac:

  • Allow more than two groups.

  • Added p-values.

  • Added option to display fractions or percentages (percent = TRUE). The latter is the default.

  • Changed default to digits = 3.

  • Generally improved display of grouped statistics.

Miscellaneous

• Added ‘inst/CITATION’ file.

• Added ‘inst/COPYRIGHTS’ file.

• Added ‘inst/CONTRIBUTIONS’ file.

• Updated ‘DESCRIPTION’ to reflect CRAN policies.

• Changed URL in ‘DESCRIPTION’ to https://github.com/hofnerb/papeR.

Bug-fixes

• Do not replace registered S3 methods from base/recommended packages (#5).

• Fixed handling of levels().

• Fixed bug with factor levels.

• latex.table.fac and latex.table.cont: fixed handling of missing values in group.

Changes in papeR version 0.5-0 (2014-11-13)

User-visible changes

• Exported plot.labeled.data.frame (and some other functions for labeled data.frames)

• Greatly improved plot function for labeled data.frames

Miscellaneous

• Changed plain text ‘NEWS’ to ‘inst/NEWS.Rd’

• The package now enhances nlme, lme4 and survival. Thus, we no longer import lme4 and survival.

Bug-fixes

• Fixed bug in toLatex.sessionInfo(, citations = FALSE) (spotted by Brian S. Diggs <brian.s.diggs __at__ gmail.com>)

• Changed plot(data, ...) to plot(x, ...) to make the generic function happy.

Changes in papeR version 0.4-0 (2013-09-13)

• included (experimental) version of prettify.summary.merMod to make lme4 (>= 1.0.0) happy

• included better handling of environments in prettify functions and checks if the data has changed

• included possibility to specify confidence intervals directly via confint, e.g.

  prettify(summary(mod), confint = confint(mod))

• better handling of NAMESPACES and Imports

• added (first) software tests

Changes in papeR version 0.3-0 (2013-08-07)

• first release to CRAN

• improvement/bugfix in rbind.labeled.data.frame()

• improvement of toLatex.sessionInfo(): file can be NULL now (no BibTeX file created on HDD)

• added plot function for labeled.data.frame objects that allows for univariate plots and grouped, bivariate plots

• numerous improvements in manuals

Changes in papeR version 0.2-0 (2013-07-01)

• greatly improved prettify functions:

  • added prettify functions for summary.coxph, summary.lme, summary.mer and anova

  • added confidence intervals to all model based prettify functions and made confint = TRUE the default; confidence intervalls are computed by refitting the model within prettify and using confint() on this model (experimental)

  • improved handling of p-values

• added new class "labeled.data.frame" with special subset, cbind and rbind functions (to keep labels when changing data set)

• added "shortcut" to define labels using labels = TRUE in latex.tables.XXX:

  labels are extracted from labeled.data.frame directly

• new toLatex function for sessionInfo() [with nicer results than the default function from base R: e.g. citations are included]

Changes in papeR version 0.1-0 (2013-01-21)

• initial version

• improvement of prettify function

• added prettify functions for more object classes

• added function toLatex to sanitize code for usage in LaTeX

• improved label handling when data set is alterd (e.g. variables dropped, added or renamed)