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eatTools 0.7.7.9000

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

new function recodeLookup() allows recoding of a variable based on a look up table
functionality of wideToLong() extended
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new function do_call_rbind_withName() allows row binding a list of data.frames while keeping their list names
bug fix in wideToLong()