Changes in version 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.

                        Changes in version 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.