Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 0.7.8 (2024-12-18)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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)

                 Changes in version 0.7.1 (2021-11-10)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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()

                 Changes in version 0.3.8 (2020-10-19)                  

  - asNumericIfPossible() now works with matrices

                 Changes in version 0.3.6 (2020-09-17)                  

  - Initial CRAN release