cleanepi v1.1.0

We are very excited to announce the release of a new cleanepi version v1.1.0. Here is an automatically generated summary of the changes in this version.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the index for empty rows returned by print_report() after remove_constants(). This function was incorrectly returning the number of rows in the original data frame, instead of the index of empty rows (#173, @Bisaloo).

• Fixed a bug in the date guesser used by the standardize_dates() function. The followings updates were made (#175, @Karim-Mane):

  • allow for quarter and partial dates, and
  • account for odd cases before parsing using the {lubridate} package.

Enhancements

• Rendering the report no longer requires the use of the {withr} package. Files generated during this process will be stored in the R temporary directory (#165, @Bisaloo).

• Simplification and improvement of code performance across several functions (#154, #156, #162, @Bisaloo).

• Make R version dependency explicit (#156, @Bisaloo).

• Replace base R pipe operator with the {tidyverse} package pipe operator (#155, @Karim-Mane).

• Stop automatic conversion of numeric values into Date due to unexpected results from date_guess() function (#151, @Karim-Mane).

• Allow for a vector of character for na_strings argument in replace_missing_values() (#180, Karim-Mane).

• Improved messaging to differentiate between duplicates found in the subject IDs column and duplicates across multiple columns (#180, Karim-Mane).

• Allow for iterative constant data removal (#180, Karim-Mane).

• The remove_constants() now works correctly when the cutoff is different from 1. More importantly, the function no longer depends on the {janitor} package (#177, Karim-Mane).

• The scan_data() now makes use of date_guess() to parse date from characters and lubridate::as_date() to parse dates from numeric. This function now operates only on character columns (#181, Karim-Mane).

• Replace snakecase::to_snake_case() with janitor::clean_names() and make sure variable names specified in keep and rename are preserved after applying janitor::clean_names() (#180, Karim-Mane).

• Use the {cli} package for formatting messages in the package (#196, Karim-Mane).

• Translate messages in the package into French using the {potools} package (#196, Karim-Mane).

• An additional column (row_id) with the row indices where the incorrect date sequences are found is now added to the report made from the check_date_sequence() function (#196, Karim-Mane).

• The date_guess() and related functions now returns a list of two elements: the converted values and a boolean that informs about the presence of numeric values that can also be of type Date (#181, Karim-Mane).

• Update the package vignette to account for the improvements made in the different pull requests (#194, Karim-Mane).

Deprecated and defunct

• Function documentations have been updated. The clean_data() no longer takes the params argument. Instead, it takes many other arguments that are described in the function documentation and the package vignettes (#184, Karim-Mane).

Acknowledgements

@avallecam @Bisaloo @chartgerink @Degoot-AM @joshwlambert @Karim-Mane @LloydChapman