eatGADS 0.20.0

extractData() adds now all variable labels as a label attribute to the resulting data.frame
a numeric tolerance can now be specified within equalGADS()
fixed warnings for getTrendGADS()
inspectMetaDifferences() for inspecting meta differences between two GADSdats and a single variable
checkUniqueness2() for faster checking if a variable is unique within an identifier variable
fixEncoding() for fixing encoding issues caused during the import via import_spss() using ASCII or other encoding
composeVar() for combining the information of two variables in a third variable
subImputations() now works with differing varName and varName_imp
fillImputations() for efficiently filling missing values in imputed variables via not imputed variables
checkFormat() now works correctly for variables without value labels
checkFormat() now works correctly for variables with purely NAs
import_raw() now works correctly if variables are provided as integers
reuseMeta() now works correctly if variables occur in multiple sheets in a data base or all_GADSdat

eatGADS 0.19.1

getTrendGADS() now supports multiple measurement points but support for linking errors has been dropped
extractData() now supports multiple measurement points but support for linking errors has been dropped
trend example data bases implemented
getTrendGADSOld() and extractDataOld() provide backward compatibility
checkLEStructure() deprecated
import_spss() now can automatically transform labeled or missing tagged character values via the changed labeledStrings argument

assimilateValLabels() for assimilating value labels of multiple variables
cbind.GADSdat() method for binding multiple GADSdat objects by column
calculateScale() for calculating scales from item sets
checkUniqueness() for checking uniqueness of a variable within an id variable

applyChangeMeta() and changeValLabels() now automatically assign "valid" to the missings columns for labeled values
bug fix equalGADS() (meta data differences solely due to different meta data sorting are now ignored)
equalGADS() can now exclude certain meta data columns from the comparison
checkFormat() for checking and modifyingSPSS format type compatibility with actual data
check4SPSS() for checking SPSS meta data conventions and requirements
changeVarNames() and applyChangeMeta() now enforce SQLite3 naming conventions
bug fixes write_spss2()
bug fix applyChangeMeta(): now recognizes differences in NAs in old columns when checking the change table

inspectDifferences() now checks whether variable is of the same type in both GADSdats
subImputations() for substituting imputations with original, not imputed values
applyChangeMeta() now returns a more informative error if the variable sets in the GADSdat and the changeTable differ
applyChangeMeta() tries to convert value columns in changeTable to numeric before throwing an error
dummies2char() for recoding a set of dummy variables to a set of left filled character variables
fac2dummies() and fac2dummies_complex() for recoding a labeled factor variable to multiple labeled dummy variables
equalGADS() for comparing the complete structure and content of two GADSdat objects
inspectDifferences() for comparing specific variables
reuseMeta() now allows only transferring value labels for values coded as missing
checkEmptyValLabels() and checkMissingValLabels() provide cleaner output
write_spss2() for writing .sav files via a text file and a SPSS syntax
import_spss() and write_spss() now deal correctly with missing codes for character variables
recodeGADS() allows recoding of unlabeled variables and values
import_spss() now takes an encoding argument to work around faulty defaults

better performance of applyChangeMeta() on value level
bug fix import_spss() (all columns are forced to be double when imported instead of integer)
bug fix fac2dummies_complex() (value labels of dummy variables are tagged as valid)
bug fixes recodeGADS()
bug fix removeValLabels() (when a single value label was removed)
bug fixes collapseMultiMC_Text() (left_fill() and drop_empty())
bug fix remove2NAchar() (with partially labeled variables)
bug fix multiChar2fac() (with partially labeled variables)
bug fix applyLookup_expandVar() (removed unnecessary messages)
warnings removed for import_spss() (haven patch for labeled character variables)

checkEmptyValLabels() and checkMissingValLabels() for comparing values in the data and value labels
compareGADS() for comparing multiple variables between two GADSdats
recodeGADS() allows recoding (multiple) values into existing values now, argument existingMeta added
recodeGADS() allows recoding of NA now
recode2NA() allows recoding of numeric and character values to NA
recodeString2NA() has been deprecated
bug fix collapseColumns() (now supports new_value as column name in look up table)
checkValue() now returns occurrence count as vector instead of giving a message
checkValue() now works on a subset of variables (via argument vars)
checkValue() now supports checking for NA
removeValLabels() now can remove only specific value - valLabel pairs if required
changing value labels inside of recodeGADS() via newValueLabels deprecated (use changeValLabels()instead)
applyChangeMeta() now works with data.frames (for compatibility with excel import and export)
import_spss() now supports variables of type datetime
import_stata() and write_stata() for exporting and importing Stata files