NEWS

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COINr 1.1.14 (2024-05-21)

• Minor bug fixes: spaces in uCodes, issue exporting 2-level composite indicators to Excel
• Add scaling parameter to n_scaled()
• Option to disable outlier treatment for purses

COINr 1.1.12

• Enable custom operations on coins and purses: new generic Custom() with methods for coins and purses.
• Enable different by_df and w by aggregation level in Aggregate.coin()
• Add possibility to impute panel data using "constant" method from stats::aprox().

COINr 1.1.11

• Allow retention of units with no data in split to purse
• Allow NAs in group vector for i_median_grp()
• Enable linear interpolation in panel data with impute_panel()
• Updated documentation on aggregation and imputation functions

COINr 1.1.9

• Fixed results tables which rounded before converting to ranks, resulting in precision errors

COINr 1.1.8

• Added possibility to set normalisation parameters in iMeta, added more explanation and examples in the normalisation vignette.
• Fixed bug correlation directions

COINr 1.1.7 (2023-10-09)

I have skipped a number of version number iterations. Here's what's changed since last time:

• Add some helper functions to convert codes to names
• Add flip axes to bar chart
• Add option to skip SA address checks
• Option to use raw data in results tables
• Small bug fixes
• Catch more errors on coin construction

COINr 1.1.2.9000

Dev version of COINr until next CRAN submission!

• Treat() now catches errors - data frame/coin/purse methods

COINr 1.1.2 (2023-02-10)

Lots of small fixes and feature extensions, including

• More robust write to log, can deal with COINr::func_Name type calls
• Catch spaces and numbers in iCodes
• Tweaks to correlation tables
• Reordering for correlation plots
• Better input checks
• Extra stats
• Bi-direction log transformation for negative skewed outlier treatment
• Subgroups of units for bar charts

COINr 1.1

Some new functions and bug fixes:

• Removed defunct function messages and startup message, defunct functions are now removed from the namespace
• New get_trends() function for analysing time trends
• Option to export purse class to Excel
• Expand unit test coverage to 80%
• Quite a lot of small bug fixes
• Improved documentation in many places
• Improved colouring for some plots
• Enabled distance to target normalisation plus examples in vignette
• COINr is now citable by a JOSS paper

COINr 1.0.0 (2022-07-05)

Major update to COINr. The main changes are as follows:

• Syntax changed to be more consistent
• New streamlined "coin" class replaces older "COIN" class
• New "purse" class to deal with panel data (time dependent data)
• Removed interactive functions based on plotly and shiny
• Much fewer package dependencies
• Underlying code rewritten to be more robust
• Improved functionality and flexibility in many functions
• COINr 0.6.1.9000 has been archived as a separate package called "COINr6" - this can be installed to ensure older code will still run.

The full changes are too extensive to write here. See vignette("v1") also available online here for a more complete description of changes.

Note that these changes are disruptive but greatly improve the package and make it more maintainable for the future. This is a one-off major overhaul, after which backwards compatibility will be ensured.

COINr 0.6.2

• Fixed bug in aggregate() which was wrongly assigning weights in some circumstances (note this is a fairly significant bug - worth re-running your results as it may have affected them)
• Added colour option to plotframework()
• Fixed bug in compareDF() (resulting from tibbles vs data frames)
• Fixed bug in sensitivity() causing trouble with running SA with no weights uncertainty specified

COINr 0.6.1 (2021-11-30)

• Removed dependency on new native pipe so now runs again on R > 4.0

COINr 0.6.0 (2021-11-26)

• New plot function plotIndDot() for plotting single indicators with possibility to label units
• Added print method for COIN class. More methods to come.
• Extended support for panel data in assemble(). This can now output multiple COINs structured into a tibble. The idea of working with multiple COINs will be extended in future versions.
• Improved bug trapping in Winsorisation function
• Added data availability thresholds during aggregation - see aggregate() function.
• Better NA colour for plotCorr() plus fixed variable ordering
• Further colour options in plotCorr()
• Variable/aggregate ordering in plotCorr() now matches grouping in higher levels
• Add option to do PCA not in groups in getPCA()
• Colour options for plotSARanks()
• Added dominance pairs calculation to ourankMatrix()
• Stopped max tab length exceeding in Excel export.
• Online book now pretty much up to date with COINr 0.6.

COINr 0.5.5 (2021-09-16)

• COINr now requires R version 4.0.0 or above - this is following some issues on some distributions during CRAN checks.
• Improved documentation and bug catching in aggregate()
• New function replaceDF() which is a simple utility for multiple values in one go for a data frame.
• New function removeElements() which successively removes indicators or aggregates one at a time and summarises the effects.

COINr 0.5.4 (2021-09-09)

• Fixed various small issues that were flagged by CRAN
• New function extractYear which allows panel data to be passed to assemble() and (optionally) imputed by latest year.
• Fixed bug in plorCorr() and getCorr()
• Changed WorldDenoms data set slightly to only use ASCII coding - this involved unfortunately removing a few accents on country names which is necessary to avoid warning notes when submitting to CRAN.
• Added goalpost normalisation method, as in European Skills Index
• Fixed small bug in compareDF()

COINr 0.5.3 (2021-09-06)

Fixes following comments from CRAN.

• Patched up holes in the documentation
• Function examples now run where possible
• Shiny apps only run now in interactive mode

COINr 0.5.2

This is the first release submitted to CRAN. Changes include:

• Documentation has been thoroughly cleaned up, including coherent examples for each function.
• Small bugs have been checked and fixed.
• A vignette is now available