NEWS

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latent2likert 1.2.1 (2024-06-24)

• Release date: 2024-06-12
• Refactored code for enhanced modularity and maintainability.
• Modularized core functions for improved readability.
• Improved the structure and organization of the codebase.
• Enhanced error handling for various correlation input scenarios.

latent2likert 1.1.1

• Release date: 2024-06-06
• Renamed the package from responsesR to latent2likert to better reflect its purpose of converting latent variables into Likert scale responses.
• Improved the package website and documentation.
• Note: The codebase is under development, and finer details may change.

latent2likert 1.1.0

• Release date: 2024-06-06
• Minor updates to functions and vignettes.

latent2likert 1.0.0

• Release date: 2024-03-28
• Added the option to generate correlated Likert scale items in the rlikert() function.
• Added the estimate_params() function for estimating parameters from existing survey data.
• Resolved dependency issues.
• Reduced dependency to only standard R packages: mvtnorm, stats, and graphics.
• The sn package is now required only for generating correlated responses using a skew normal distribution.
• Added user prompts to install the sn package when needed.

latent2likert 0.1.0

• Release date: 2020-10-17
• Initial release 1.2.1.
• Tested on platforms: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) and x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit).