memisc 0.97 released
07 March 2015
Version 0.97 of package memisc has been released to CRAN.
New features¶
spss.system.fileandspss.portable.filegain atolower=argument that defaults toTRUE, which allows to change annoying all-upper-case variable names to lower caseNew generic function
Iconv()that allows to change the character enconding of variable descriptions and value labels. It has methods for “data.set”, “importer”, “item”, “annotation”, and “value.label” objects.There is now a method of
as.character()for “codebook” objects and a convenience functionWrite()with methods for “codebook” and “description” to make it more convenient to direct the output ofcodebook()anddescription()into text files.A method for “merMod” objects of the
getSummary()generic function.mtable()now should be able (again) to handle estimation results produced bylmer()andglmer()from package “lme4”.recode()handles character vectors in a more convenient way: They are converted into factors with sorted unique values (after recoding) as levels.
User-visible changes¶
getSummary.expCoef()is renamed intogetSummary_expCoef().
Defunct¶
S3 method
aggregate.formula()has been removed from the package to avoid clash with method of the same name in the base package. The functionAggregate()can be used instead.Removed
include(),uninclude(), anddetach.sources()as these are flagged as modifying the global namespace.