NEWS
PsychoMatic 0.3.0 (2026-06-29)
CRAN-Readiness
- Updated
DESCRIPTION with a more informative title, description, DOI-backed
methodological references, maintainer metadata, VignetteBuilder, and
LazyData.
- Reduced strong dependencies by moving report-only and workflow-specific
packages to
Suggests and loading them conditionally.
- Regenerated English-facing manual pages for exported functions.
- Replaced the old
NEWS file with NEWS.md.
- Added lightweight vignettes for EFA, CFA, measurement invariance, and
alignment invariance.
- Added small bundled datasets for reproducible examples:
psychomatic_continuous, psychomatic_ordinal, and
psychomatic_multigroup.
- Ensured examples, tests, and report exports use temporary files where
appropriate.
New Functions
- Added
screen_items() for item-quality screening.
- Added
reverse_items() for reverse scoring with explicit or detected items.
- Added
score_scale() for mean/sum scale scores with minimum valid-response
rules and optional person-mean imputation.
- Added
psychomatic_report() for integrated Excel or Word reports.
- Added
irt_auto() for basic Rasch, 2PL, and graded response IRT workflows,
including item-level interpretation, an overall model summary, and APA 7
methodological references.
- Added
dif_auto() for lightweight logistic DIF screening by group, with
item-level interpretation, an overall DIF summary, and APA 7 methodological
references.
- Added
compare_models_auto() for comparing alternative CFA models with
fit-index-based recommendations and support for WLSMV-style scaled indices.
Object Structure And Summaries
- Added
summary() methods for efa_auto, cfa_auto, and
factorial_invariance_auto.
- Added more predictable structured tables to EFA, CFA, and invariance result
objects.
- Preserved bilingual output support through
language = "esp" and
language = "eng" while keeping the main documentation in English.
- Aligned
export_efa() with psychomatic_report() so EFA exports use the
same structured reporting path as the rest of the package.
Refactoring
- Split large EFA and CFA files into focused helpers, methods, exports, and
summary utilities.
- Kept legacy Spanish aliases for backward compatibility, but documented the
English argument names as the recommended interface.
Testing
- Expanded tests for item screening, reverse scoring, scale scoring, report
export, IRT, DIF, CFA model comparison, datasets, summaries, and error paths.
- Verified the release candidate with
R CMD check --as-cran.
PsychoMatic 0.2.0
New Features
- Added inter-item correlation matrices with Pearson, polychoric, and
tetrachoric options.
- Added Excel export for correlation matrices.
Fixes
- Fixed the label for confidence intervals in corrected factor loadings.