NEWS

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eatTools 0.7.9 (2025-09-12)

• new exemplary dataset data.timss1 borrowed from the BIFIEsurvey package for illustration purposes of the checkBackgroundVariables() function
• new function checkBackgroundVariables() checks the consistency of the variables in a data set if the variables belong to different groups, which in turn have different properties, for example ID variables, weighting variables, replication weights or covariates.
• existsBackgroundVariables() now allows to check the number of variables entered if, for example, several items but only one ID may be defined for a data record. It also checks which variable groups may overlap and which may not.

eatTools 0.7.8 (2024-12-18)

• new function cleanifyString() removes non-alphanumeric characters and special characters from a string or factor variable

eatTools 0.7.7 (2024-10-11)

• minor bugfixes when integers are very large in addLeadingZerosToCharInt() (Previously an error message was displayed.)
• minor bugfixes in the messages of mergeAttr()
• recodeLookup() return the original vector if the the user does not provide any recode table (i.e., if the argument is NULL). (Previously an error message was displayed.)
• minor bugfixes in the display of makeTria()
• messages can be turned off in makeDataFrame()
• package sticker added
• bugfixes in gsubAll(): Does not longer allow using regular expressions (internally, gsub(..., fixed = TRUE) is used). Function now begins with the longest string to avoid repeated modifications if strings in "old" match each other. See function documentation for further details.

eatTools 0.7.6 (2024-04-05)

• add argument checks using the checkmate package
• bugfix in halveString() for splitting at the last instance of a regular expression
• new function rbind_fill_vector() allows rbind() for unidimensional vectors of unequal length, filling empty entries with NA
• new operator %$$% works for lists similar to $ but gives error instead of NULL if the corresponding list element does not exist

eatTools 0.7.5 (2023-11-23)

• internal fixes to tests (removed language dependency)
• new function makeTria() for internal use in eatTools and eatModel reshapes covariance/correlation matrices into triangular shape
• added seq2() for sequence generation
• adapt halveString() for patterns with more than 1 character
• add messages to mergeAttr() if combinations of merge variables from one data set do not occur in the other data set
• add messages to mergeAttr() if the two data.frames intended to merge contain additional common variables (beyond the by-variables)
• makeDataFrame() gives warning/errors if data.frame has less rows than expected at the least.
• existsBackgroundVariables() gives warning/errors if variables have missing values, depending on how critical the missing values are considered to be

eatTools 0.7.4 (2022-11-10)

• new function rbind_common() rbinds a list of data.frames and selects only common columns
• bug fix in mergeAttr() when variables have more than one class
• mergeAttr() gives warning if merging variables have NAs
• optional colnames argument in halveString() function

eatTools 0.7.3 (2022-06-28)

• new function print_and_capture() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatCodebook packages allows for easy integration of (small) tables into (error) messages
• added some unit tests

eatTools 0.7.2 (2022-05-05)

• new function makeDataFrame() for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages converts tibbles and data.tables to data.frame
• new function mergeAttr() mainly for internal use in eatRep and eatModel packages restores attributes after merging and provides messages if merging units are not unique or only partially matches
• new function pwc() computes part-whole-correlation between an item and the whole scale (except this item)

eatTools 0.7.1 (2021-11-10)

• new function roundDF() rounds all numeric variables in a data.frame

eatTools 0.7.0 (2021-08-11)

• new function na_omit_selection() drops rows containing missing values in selected columns
• existsBackgroundVariables(): add optional warning if variables contains missing values

eatTools 0.6.0 (2021-07-06)

• new function readMultisep() reads in data.frames with separator characters >=1Byte
• new function addLeadingZerosToCharInt() adds leading zeros to all columns that can be identified as integers in a character data.frame
• bug fix in descr(). missing handling in variable when additional weights are used
• bug fix in tablePattern() when additional weights are used

eatTools 0.5.0 (2021-02-09)

• new function recodeLookup() allows recoding of a variable based on a look up table
• functionality of wideToLong() extended
• Switch to Github Action for CI

eatTools 0.4.0 (2021-01-25)

• new function do_call_rbind_withName() allows row binding a list of data.frames while keeping their list names
• bug fix in wideToLong()

eatTools 0.3.8 (2020-10-19)

• asNumericIfPossible() now works with matrices

eatTools 0.3.6 (2020-09-17)

• Initial CRAN release