NEWS

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tables 0.9.31 (2024-08-29)

• In a few places len was used instead of length.out in calls to rep(), leading to warnings. Similarly, rep was used instead of replace in sample() (issue #28).
• tabular assumed it was on the search list, and didn't work when called as tables::tabular (issue #30).
• Added Authors@R field to DESCRIPTION.

tables 0.9.28 (2024-06-26)

• A factor level of "" caused an error when displayed. It will now be changed to " " for display (issue #19).
• The VignetteBuilder field in DESCRIPTION has been changed to rmarkdown so that Pandoc can be found even when it is not on the PATH.
• Another minor update due to changes to the formatters package.

tables 0.9.25 (2024-04-13)

• PlusMinus() and Paste() didn't handle formatting properly when multiple columns were involved (issue #13).
• toLatex() with a non-empty file argument didn't write to file properly. (Reported by Reinhard Kerschner and F. Hortner.)
• In some cases All() would give an error (issue #17).
• toTinytable() function has been added to work with the tinytable package.
• Minor update due to changes to the formatters package.

tables 0.9.17 (2023-05-02)

• Change host to Github.
• Add useGroupLabels() function.
• Add HTMLfootnotes() function.
• Add method for formatters::matrix_form.

tables 0.9.10 (2022-10-17)

• rbind() failed in a complicated example, because the classes or names of the column labels differed.
• Error messages for rbind() and cbind() have been made more helpful.

tables 0.9.8

• All() didn't work with tibbles. (Reported by Vincent Arel-Bundock.)

tables 0.9.7

• toHTML() was ignoring the file argument.

tables 0.9.4 (2020-08-28)

• Minor update to fix test note.

tables 0.9.3 (2020-05-26)

• Added latexTable() function, to provide captions, labels, etc.
• Added knitrTable vignette.

tables 0.9

• Reduced dependence on Hmisc.

tables 0.8.8 (2019-05-13)

• Updates to fix CRAN errors.

tables 0.8.7 (2018-11-11)

• Added ... argument to toKable() so that options can be passed to control the conversion. (Thanks to Mary Putt for pointing out the need for this.)
• Fixed bug in as.tabular.data.frame() that failed if any columns were factors. (Reported by Daniel Farewell.)
• Fixed incompatibility with new version of fancyvrb.
  (Thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley for working out the solution.)
• Fixed incompatibility with rmarkdown/knitr new version.

tables 0.8.4 (2018-05-21)

• Added check for bad args to DropEmpty(), and fixed example which had them.
• Added "nearData" argument to Heading() etc, to fix Hline() bug reported by Johannes Ranke.
• Fixed bug in justification of row labels.
• Fixed bug when statistic had the wrong length, reported by Stefan Marr.
• Added toKable() function, for use with the kableExtra package.
• Added knit_print.tabular() method, so that tabular objects will print with correct formatting in knitr documents.

tables 0.8 (2017-01-03)

• Allow editing of the row and column labels.
• Added DropEmpty() pseudo-function.
• Added AllObs() and RowNum() formula functions.
• Added character.only argument to Heading() and Paste().

tables 0.7.91

• Updated options for html.tabular to use better CSS and HTML5 in the tables.
• Added an HTML vignette.
• Fixed bug: functions prefixed by "pkg::" in formulas led to warning messages. (Reported by Lars Bishop.)

tables 0.7.88

• Edited messages to allow internationalization. No translations added so far.

tables 0.7.87

• Added "append" argument to latex.tabular() and html.tabular(), and made explicit that connections are allowed for the "file" argument. (Suggestion of Marc Halperin.)

tables 0.7.86

• Fixed scoping bug: locally defined format functions were not always found. (Reported by Doug Ezra Morrison.)

tables 0.7.79 (2014-07-24)

• Added Equal() and Unequal() pseudo-functions for more flexible Percent() calculations.
• Fixed bug in handling factors which had not excluded NA values.
• Added "formula" attribute to tabular.formula results.
• Added as.tabular() function.
• Added Arguments() function to allow multi-argument analysis functions.

tables 0.7.68

• Bug fix in setting up column headings (reported by Lars Bishop).

tables 0.7.67

• The cbind() and rbind() methods now allow NULL in the list of arguments. (Suggestion of Jeff Newmiller.)
• Added a note in the vignette about how to use RowFactor with nopagebreak in a longtable environment. (Based on some sleuthing by Jeffrey Miller.)
• Added HTMLcaption to the table options to insert an HTML caption. (Suggestion of Joseph Larmarange.)

tables 0.7.64 (2013-11-12)

• Added support for HTML output.
• Added support for extraction of subsets of the matrix.
• Added Paste() function.
• If a summary doesn't produce a scalar value, formatting messed up the display. Now a warning will be issued and that cell will be displayed as or similar.
• Added cbind() and rbind() methods for tabular objects.
• The internal texify() function did not work properly.

tables 0.7.48

• Default formatting now skips character cells.
• Justification of labels in text mode wasn't being done properly.

tables 0.7 (2012-12-14)

• RowFactor now allows spacing=1.
• Specifications for justification in table_options() are now recycled.
• Missing values were not handled correctly when computing counts, and when working with factors. (Reported by Manuel Reif.)
• Added Percent() pseudo-function.
• Cleaned up handling of row and column labels, especially in cases where rows with different column headings are summed.
• Added optional parameter to Heading() to use it only if another hasn't already been set.

tables 0.6 (2012-04-02)

• Fixed bug in column headings in print.tabular (reported by Tal Galili)
• Added Factor().
• Fixed bug with zero columns of row labels.
• Added levelnames argument to RowFactor and Factor to allow label customization.
• Added Multicolumn function.
• Added as.matrix(), write.csv.tabular() and write.table.tabular() (suggestions of Greg Snow).
• Added LaTeX escapes to text in the body or labels constructed by All() or the factor labels. (Suggestion of Dieter Menne.)
• Added a caption to the longtable example. (Suggestion of Dieter Menne.)
• Added the version number to the vignette title page.
• Fixed RowFactor to add space before first row, not after last row. (Bug report from Dieter Menne.)
• Made tabular() into a generic function. (Suggestion of Hadley Wickham.)
• Added description of missing values to the vignette.
• Fixed handling of data with an Hmisc "labelled" class attached. (Reported by Thomas MacFarland.)

tables 0.5 (2011-12-07)

• Planned CRAN release of all of the above

tables 0.4

• Added All(), Literal() and RowFactor()
• Added table_options() and booktabs() for booktabs support
• Gave different defaults for row label justification and data justification
• Suppress page breaks in RowFactor().
• Allow options to be set temporarily in latex() call.
• Added options to suppress parts of the output.

tables 0.3 (2011-11-29)

• Renamed from "tabular" to "tables", put on R-forge

tables 0.2

• First reasonably complete release

tables 0.1

• First alpha version with Hmisc support

tables 0.0

• Various abortive attempts