datefixR 1.1.0

This update introduces a Shiny app and support for names of months in Spanish, German, and French.

Code changes

• New function, fix_date_app() which produces a shiny app for accessing the features of datefixR. Please note, the package dependencies for this app (DT, htmltools, readxl, and shiny) are not installed alongside datefixR. This allows datefixR to be installed on secure systems where these packages may not be allowed. If one of these dependencies is not installed on the system when this function is called, then the user will have the option of installing them.
• Behind the scenes, names for months of the year are now handled differently to allow multilingual support. Spanish, German, and French is currently supported with the option to support additional languages in the future.

Documentation

• The README now uses an animation from asciicast to demonstrate the package.

datefixR 1.0.0

For this revision, datefixR has undergone ropensci peer review which has resulted in substantial changes and improvements to the package. My sincerest thanks to the reviewers, Kaique dos S. Alves and Al-Ahmadgaid B. Asaad, and the editor, Adam H. Sparks.

Code changes

• fix_date() and fix_dates() have been deprecated in favor of fix_date_char() and fix_date_df() respectively to make the role of each function clearer. The deprecated functions will continue to work but are not guaranteed to have new features. Users will be gently encouraged to transition to the new functions.
• fix_date_char() now supports vectors as well as character objects of length 1. This also means fix_date_char() can be used with dplyr::mutate().
• An example data frame for using with the package functions, exampledates, is now provided with the package.

Documentation

• The package description has been changed to make the purpose of the package clearer.
• Instead of “cleans up”, fix_date_df() is now described as “tidying” a data frame.
• Lack of support for the datetime format has been added to the README file
• The package repository is now owned by the ropensci GitHub organization and all links have been changed accordingly.

Testing

• Tests now expect specific warnings rather than warnings with any message.

datefixR 0.1.6

• Dates with a “sept” / “Sept” abbreviation will now be correctly handled.
• Lint all R files using styler

datefixR 0.1.4

• Update documentation to reflect support for MM/DD/YYYY formats and NA imputation

datefixR 0.1.3

• Added support for MM/DD/YYYY formats via an optional argument, format.

datefixR 0.1.2

• Added id argument to fix_dates(). If not explicitly stated, the first column is assumed to contain row IDs.
• Added more useful error messages which provide both the date causing the error, and the associated ID.
• Setting day.impute = NA or month.impute = NA will now result in NA if day or month is missing respectively in a date and a warning is issued. If day.impute = NULL or month.impute = NULL then the function will error if day or month is missing respectively in a date
• Added datefixR vignette which describes the package in more detail than the README
• Added fix_date() for fixing individual dates.
• Added citation file

datefixR 0.1.1

• First version of the package
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.