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descriptr (development version)

descriptr 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2024-11-08

New Features

Bug Fixes

  • Incorrect column name generates missing output (#123)
  • Fix ggplot2 deprecated function warnings

Other Changes

  • Incorrect package alias (#122)
  • Migrate to testthat edition 3 (#124)
  • Migrate to rhub v2 (#125)

descriptr 0.5.2

CRAN release: 2020-12-09

This is a patch release to fix CRAN notification about vdiffr package and remove deprecated functions related to visualization of statistical distributions.

Defunct

The following functions are defunct. Please use the vistributions package for visualizing distributions.

  • dist_binom_plot()
  • dist_binom_prob()
  • dist_binom_perc()
  • dist_chisquare_plot()
  • dist_chisquare_perc()
  • dist_chisquare_prob()
  • dist_normal_plot()
  • dist_normal_perc()
  • dist_normal_prob()
  • dist_f_plot()
  • dist_f_perc()
  • dist_f_prob()
  • dist_t_plot()
  • dist_t_perc()
  • dist_t_prob()

descriptr 0.5.1

CRAN release: 2020-02-01

This is a patch release to fix CRAN errors.

descriptr 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2019-01-22

New Features

  • ds_tiy_stats() will detect continuous variables in the data set and return summary statistics for all of them. (#68)
  • ds_auto_summary_stats() will detect all continuous variables in the data set and return summary statistics and frequency tables for all of them. (#69)
  • ds_plot_*() family of functions will detect continuous and categorical variables in the data set and generate appropriate plots. (#70)
  • ds_launch_shiny_app() will check if suggested packages are available and offer to install the missing packages. (#76)
  • ds_measures_*() family of functions now accept multiple arguments. (#78)
  • ds_auto_freq_table() and ds_auto_cross_table() allow users to specify a subset of variables. (#83)
  • ds_freq_table() now works for both continuous and categorical data. (#90)
  • Some minor improvements to the error messages. (#51)

Deprecation

All the dist_* functions related to visualizing probability distributions have been soft deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Please use the vistributions package going forward.

The shiny app has been soft-deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Please use the xplorerr package going forward.

The following functions have been soft-deprecated and will be removed in the next release:

descriptr 0.4.1

CRAN release: 2018-03-20

New Features

  • Feature request: add turn off button in the app (#29)
  • Show frequency of missing values in frequency table (#32)
  • ds_freq_cont() should return a tibble (#34)

The following now return tibbles to facilitate further analysis:

New to descriptr are the following which generate summary statistics:

Bug Fixes

  • descriptr:::print_screen() fails if a variable has more than one class (#26)
  • ds_summary_stats() does not show missing values (#30)
  • Multiple variable statistics throws error in the presence of NA (#33)
  • Error in cross table in presence of NA (#40)

Acknowledgements

A big thanks to @GegznaV and @adam_medcalf who contributed code, opened issues and provided valuable feedback.

descriptr 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2018-02-10

New Features

We have completely revamped the API. All the functions now take a data.frame or tibble as the first argument followed by the variable names. The variable names need not be surrounded by single/double quotes anymore. Please view the guide for more details.

  • use ggplot for all plots (#8)

Bug Fixes

  • update shiny app (#16)
  • error in percentiles in ds_summary_stats (#22)

descriptr 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2017-12-11

New Features

  • shiny app for interactive analysis
  • multi column statistics (#6)

descriptr 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2017-08-31

This is a minor release containing bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

  • multiple one way table returns an error (#2)
  • ftable returned by freq_table must be data.frame or tibble (#3)
  • multiple one way table returns an error (#4)

descriptr 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2017-06-01

Bug Fixes

  • typo in group_summary(); maximum and minimum were reversed
  • norm_plot() was non-reactive to changes in standard deviation (#1).

descriptr 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2016-12-28

  • First release