memisc 0.97 released¶

07 March 2015

Version 0.97 of package memisc has been released to CRAN.

New features¶

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.

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.