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 memisc 0.97 released
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.. post:: 2015-03-07
   :category: software, memisc

.. previewimage:: mtable-shot.png

Version 0.97 of package `memisc </software/memisc/>`__ has been released
to `CRAN <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/memisc/>`__.

New features
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-  ``spss.system.file`` and ``spss.portable.file`` gain a ``tolower=``
   argument that defaults to ``TRUE``, which allows to change annoying
   all-upper-case variable names to lower case
-  New generic function ``Iconv()`` that allows to change the character
   enconding of variable descriptions and value labels. It has methods
   for “data.set”, “importer”, “item”, “annotation”, and “value.label”
   objects.
-  There is now a method of ``as.character()`` for “codebook” objects
   and a convenience function ``Write()`` with methods for “codebook”
   and “description” to make it more convenient to direct the output of
   ``codebook()`` and ``description()`` into text files.
-  A method for “merMod” objects of the ``getSummary()`` generic
   function. ``mtable()`` now should be able (again) to handle
   estimation results produced by ``lmer()`` and ``glmer()`` from
   package “lme4”.
-  ``recode()`` handles character vectors in a more convenient way: They
   are converted into factors with sorted unique values (after recoding)
   as levels.

User-visible changes
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-  ``getSummary.expCoef()`` is renamed into ``getSummary_expCoef()``.

Defunct
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-  S3 method ``aggregate.formula()`` has been removed from the package
   to avoid clash with method of the same name in the base package. The
   function ``Aggregate()`` can be used instead.
-  Removed ``include()``, ``uninclude()``, and ``detach.sources()`` as
   these are flagged as modifying the global namespace.