New memisc release 0.99.17.1 facilitates checking your data

A new release 0.99.17.1 of my package memisc has been published on CRAN. The new release has the following improvements:

  • mtable() results now include a legend for significance symbols.
  • A codeplan() function creates a data frame that describes the structure of an "importer" or "data.set" object. Such “codeplans” can be used to copy the “item structure” or code plan from one object to another.
  • The subset() method for "importer" objects now accepts the names of variables to be selected also as a character vector.
  • Dollar and double-bracket operators for "importer" objects are available to facilitate creating codebooks for individual variables.
  • Summary statistics for models in calls to mtable() can be selected via options or list arguments.
  • toLatex() method for mtable() results warns about unescaped TeX specials
  • A dublicated_labels() function shows and describes duplicated value labels. The importer methods for SPSS (spss.system.file() and spss.portable.file()) files use this to warn about duplicated labels.
  • Dates are properly imported from SPSS files and their representation in codebooks is improved.
  • Operators %#%, %##%, and %@% make it easier to manipulate annotations and other attributes of objects.