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compareGroups 4.9.1

• bug fixed in cGroupsWUI()

compareGroups 4.9.0

• new argument nmax.method to compute the N shown in the header. By default N is computed as the number of rows with at least one valid value in the described variables, but also N can be computed as the total number of rows in the data set or in each group regardless the available data in the described variables.
• new argument stars in descrTable and createTable functions to show significance levels asterisks beside p-values.
• new argument p.trend.method in compareGroups and descrTable functions to choose between Spearman, Kendall or “Cuzick’s trend test for non-normal numerical variables.
• WUI: bug fixed when exporting plots

compareGroups 4.8.0

• <comparegroups.eu> URL replaced by <isubirana.github.io/compareGroups>
• importFrom(“stats”, “model.frame”) included in NAMESPACE
• descrTable, createTAble: new argument added “lab.ref” to change label for reference category
• createTable, compareGroups functions: isR() removed

compareGroups 4.7.2

• export2md: table format bug fixed in exporting to HTML when nmax=FALSE

compareGroups 4.7.1

• version info fixed (DESCRIPTION vs MAN)
• missing functions in alias argument from compareGroups-internals.Rd document incorporated

compareGroups 4.7.0

• WUI: new functionality to convert to factors integer variables. Useful to plot numeric variables with few values as bar plots.
• export2md, export2word, export2pdf, export2html: bug fixed in coloring all header lines for stratified tables MINOR
• update.formula2 method: new … argument added.
• CITATION file: citEntry() and personList() replaced by bibentry() and c(), respectively.
• DESCRIPTION file: Encoding field changed from latin1 to UTF-8

compareGroups 4.6.0

• new function padjustCompareGroups to adjust p-values for multiple testing
• predimed example data has been removed from the package
• export2pdf: new arguments header.background and header.color
• z[.compareGroups function: bug fixed when subsetting compareGroups object by variable names

compareGroups 4.5.3

• compareGroups: bug fixed in Xext when data contains a single variable

compareGroups 4.5.2

• missingTable: bug fixed when applying this function to a descriptive table obtained by descrTable function.
• export2latex: it can handle more than one ‘&’ or ‘%’ characters.

compareGroups 4.5.1

• export2md: add bottom header line when compiling to PDF.

compareGroups 4.5.0

• compareGroups, descrTable: new argument ‘lab.missing’ to specify label for missing category.
• export2md.Rd: in the argument ‘width’ now it is mentioned explicitly that this argument is ignored when exporting the descriptive table to Word.
• compareGroups.R: bug fixed when simplify = FALSE and empty categories for groups variables are now kept.
• descrTable.Rd, createTable.Rd: bug fixed in the help files for q.type argument.

compareGroups 4.4.6

• NAMESPACE: functions from importFrom(flextable,…) have been dropped.

compareGroups 4.4.5

• SNPassoc removed from Suggests
• SNPs.rda added to data folder and SNPs.rd help file taken from SNPassoc package and added to compareGroups man files.
• Depends on R version >3.5.0
• vignette has been reduced after removing WUI section

compareGroups 4.4.4

• SNPassoc moved from Depends to Suggests

compareGroups 4.4.3

• WUI (cGroupsWUI) renewed based on shinydashboardPlus layout and more options.
• wrong description of file argument from export2xls function fixed.
• bug fixed in getResults(, “ratio”) when only one variable is described.
• bug fixed in xlab and ylab in box.plot internal function.
• new component in ‘extra.labels’ argument from ‘createTable’ function to append label for surv variables.
• internal function snpQC syntax code: replace mclapply for lapply
• shinydashboardPlus package added to suggested
• compareSNPs: bug fixed when only one SNP is described

compareGroups 4.4.2

• bug fixed when exporting tables to PDF in cGroupsWUI()

compareGroups 4.4.1

• bug fixed in internal function compare.i when computing binom.test with zero freqs.
• confinterval function to compute confidence interval of means and medians return NA and not error when it cannot compute IC for medians.
• conf.level (confidence level) argument in compareGroups and descrTable function also applies to hazard, odds and risk ratios.
• epitools package removed from importFrom (NAMESPACE)
• functions qnorm, rbinom and uniroot functions from stats package added in importFrom

compareGroups 4.4.0

• compareGroups, descrTable: new argument ‘compute.prop’ added (to compute proportions instead of percentages for categorical row-variables).
• createTable, descrTable: new argument ‘all.last’ added (to place descriptives of the whole sample after descriptives by groups).

compareGroups 4.3.1

• compareGroups.Rd: p.trend for categorical variables modified.
• export2word: new arguments added (same as export2md).
• export2md: longtable fixed.
• bug fixed in internal table.i function when identifying reference category when NA.
• bug fixed in cGroupsGUI: updated to new updates of compareGroups.fit function.
• export2pdf: new arguments incorportated and makes use of export2md function.

compareGroups 4.3.0

• export2word supports stratified tables
• Risk Ratios are now computed. See riskratio argument from compareGroups function.

compareGroups 4.2.0

• flextable package dependency
• export2md supports tables to export to word in nicer format using flextable
• export2md supports stratified tables when exporting to word (new export2mdwordcbind internal function)
• new argument perc in report function (same as plot)
• export2word bug fixed

compareGroups 4.1.1

• bug fixed in export2md when exportd in a Rmd notebook.
• norm.plot: par(mfrow=c(1,1)) added at the end, to restore mutiplots device.
• export2md: more understandable warning message when used outside the Rmarkdown chunk.

compareGroups 4.1.0

• new argument show.ci and conf.level in createTable and compareGroups, respectively, to compute confidence intervals of means, medians, proportions and incidences.
• new argument “position” to export2md function, to place tables justified to the left, centerd or to the right (only when compiling to HTML or PDF)
• no longer Hmisc, xtable, gdata package dependies. Imports write_xlsx from writexl and suggests readxl packages.
• xlsx removed from suggested packages.
• export2xls uses write_xlsx function from writexl pacakge.
• cGroupsWUI improved and updated.
• shinythemes package suggested. This saves a lot of space in app folder.
• shinyWidgets package suggested (for awasome dropdownbuttons and colour picker in the shiny app)
• export2md, export2mdcbind: bug fixed when drawing header line and no Nmax is reported.
• labelled class from “predimed”, “regicor” variables removed.
• byrow add a choice to compute proportions by combinations of rows and columns (i.e. to sum up 100%).

MINOR - bug fixed in compareGroups.R when using “select” argument. - compare.i function: bug fixed when “include.miss”. - bug fixed when variable names contains spaces. - “…” argument removed from export2word. - internal function simplify.formula removed.

compareGroups 4.0.0

• new argument var.equal to compareGroups and descrTable.
• update.compareGroups: changed.
• dates variables supported
• compareGroups.default and compareGroups.formula unified in a single compareGroups function.
• new strataTable function: to create stratified tables without having to use cbind. Also incorporates an update method.
• package vignette improved.
• new descrTable created. This function builds a descriptive table in one step.
• Imports: kableExtra and chron added,
  
• Suggested: car removed
• export2md: new arguments added (format, width, strip, first.strip, background, size and landscape)
• compareGroups: new arguments added (chisq.test.B and chisq.test.seed)
• table.i, createTable: checking OS to print +/- sign removed from table.i and passed to createTable. This speeds up the bivariate construction a lot.
• compareGroups.default: ‘…’ argument removed.

compareGroups 3.4.0

• compareGroups now handles tibble objects

compareGroups 3.3.4

• bug fixed when checking vignette v3.3.3
• bug fixed for Hmisc::label in examples and vignette

compareGroups 3.3.2

• createTable: bug fixed related to hide.no v3.3.1
• createTable: bug fixed related to extra.labels argument v3.3
• createTable: new “extra.labels” argument indicating the key to normal, non-normal or categorical variables.
• compareGroups: new “byrow” argument to report percentages by rows or by columns. v3.2.5
• export2md, export2html: Var removed from descriptive table header. v3.2.4
• compareGroups.default: new argument chisq.test.perm to perform simulation chisq test instead of fisher test v3.2.3
• export2word: changed working directory v3.2.2
• plot do not open new windows when file argument is NULL.
• new argument “verbose” set to FALSE by default in “compareSNPs”
• new component in header.labels argument to modify OR/HR bivariate table column label.
• bug fixed in getResults function when exctracting proportions.
  v3.2.1
• package vignette updated.
• new argument “oddsratio.method” in “compareGroups.default” function to compute odds ratio under different methods.
• XLConnect and shinythemes removed from suggested packages. v3.2
• cGroupsWUI: improved.
• Internal function descripSurv has been modified fixing a bug when computing K-M probabilities.
• xlsx not imported but suggested. Only required when calling export2xls function.

compareGroups 3.1

• cGroupsWUI: improved shiny app interface.
• export2word: new function to export tables to Word.
• export2md: new function to export tables to Markdown.
• export2html: file argument can be left missing to return HTML code, similar to export2latex.

compareGroups 3.0.1

• cGroupsWUI: udpates and improvements in the aspect of the GUI web based application.

compareGroups 3.0

2015-01-14 - new argument header.labels incorporated to functions to print and export the bivariate table. This offers the possibility to change some ‘key’ labels such as p.overall or p.trend. - new function getResults to retrieve results from compareGroups or createTable object as vectors and matrices. - new argument ‘margin’ implemented in ‘export2pdf’ function.

MAJOR CHANGES:

• new function cGroupsWUI has been implemented which opens a web browser with a Web User Interface using Shiny functions.
• new vignette compareGroupsWUI_vignette.pdf created to illustrate how WUI works.

MINOR CHANGES:

• ‘file’ argument from export2csv, export2latex, export2html, export2pdf and report functions must specify the extension. This has been changed from previous versions where no extension (.pdf, .tex, .html or .pdf) was required.
• fixed: ‘hide’ argument from createTable does not produce an error but a warning when a non-existing variable is specified.
• fixed: indentation when exporting a rbind.createTable object to HTML
• SNPs data removed.

compareGroups 2.0.5

2014-8-25

• Bug fixed regarding number of decimals when applying subsetting ‘[’ method to createTable, rbind.createTable and cbind.createTable class objects.

compareGroups 2.0.4

2014-05-02

• JSS paper citation included, in compareGroups.Rd and in createTable.Rd help files.

compareGroups 2.0.3

2014-04-29

• high line and +/- symbol when printint table on R console replaced by standard C-locale if necessary.

compareGroups 2.0.2

2014-03-26

• fixed: +/- symbol

compareGroups 2.0.1

2014-03-17

• check package: Sweave.sty removed from vignette folder.
• integerToAscii replaced by intToUtf8 function.
• internal functions ‘snp.R’, ‘SNPHWE.R’, ‘sortSNPs.R’, etc. removed since SNPassoc package has been incorporated in depends list.

compareGroups 2.0

2013-08-02

• new argument ‘type’ in ‘plot.compareGroups’ method to save plots in different formats.
• new argument ‘include.miss’ in compareGroups function. This treats NA values as a new category for categorical row-variables.
• new function ‘radiograph’ that reports raw data in the data set.
• new function ‘missTable’ has been created, to report missingness tables.
• new function ‘compareSNPs’ has been created, with its own ‘print’ method.
• new functions ‘report’ and ‘export2pdf’ have been created to generate PDF files with tables and/or plots.
• new argumen ‘landscape’ has been incorporated to ‘export2latex’ function.
• new package dependencies required: SNPassoc and HardyWeinberg

MINOR CHANGES:

• when computing p-values to compare groups for a categorical row-variables, if only one row or one column has some non-zero count, p-value is ‘.’.
• cGroupsGUI no longer saves objects in .GlobalEnv but uses .compareGroupsEnv environment.
• cGroupsGUI input cannot be left missing.
• bug fixed in cGroupsGUI function when exporting to html format.
• internal function prepare has been modified in order to fit the bivariate table columns to their width.
• internal function descripSurv has been modified to accomodate group codes containing regular expression symbols (such as +, -, etc.).
• bug fixed in export2html function when exporting a table with one row.
• bug fixed in ‘ref.no’ argument of compareGroups function.

compareGroups 1.4

2012-11-06

• an internal bug fixed when specifying selec for a particular row-varible in building Xlong attribute for compareGroups object.
• cGroupsGUI: improved, more compact.

compareGroups 1.3

2012-07-19

• createTable objects can be plotted and it is also possible to apply varinfo function on them.
• cGroupsGUI: new smaller frame.
• createTable: new argument q.type, to specify how the quartiles (percentiles) are displayed for a non-normal distributed row-variable.
• createTable: new argument sd.type, to allow the user change the format in displaying SD; 1-inside brackets (default), 2- mean +/- SD.
• createTable: new argument digits.p added, to allow the user specify the number of decimals for all p-values displayed on the bivariate table.
• createTable: new argument p.ratio has been added. This computes de p-value corresponding to each OR/HR individually.
• Nmax reported changed: now it represents the number of patients with at least one valid value across all analized variables.
• a bug fixed in compareGroup: when some row-variable could not be performed ‘varnames.orig’ attribute was bad built. This affected other functions such as createTable.
• a bug fixed in [.createTable: an error ocurred when a literal category specified to be hiden when subsetting a createTable object.
• MINOR CHANGE: 1.95 replaced by 1.96 in ‘compareGroups.Rd’ file.

compareGroups 1.2

2012-07-10

• export2html: a bug fixed in N.
• repeated row-variables are kept after applying the generic function ‘update’. This was not possible in the previous version 1.1.
• new internal function ‘simplify.formula’ added.

compareGroups 1.1

2012-05-13

• [.compareGroups: a bug fixed when a row-variable present multiple times.
• compareGroups: new argument ‘compute.ratio’.
• compareGroups: default value for argument ‘simplify’ changed to TRUE.
• load tcltk only when cGroupsGUI is called.
• bug fixed in export2latex.cbind.createTable when drawing hlines.
• export2latex: apostrophes have been changed from ’’ to `’ in writing default table caption.

compareGroups 1.0

2011-11-29

MAIN CHANGES

• new method ‘[’ implemented for createTable objects.
• new method rbind implemented for compareGroups and createGroups objects.
• new method cbind implemented for createTable objects.
• new method summary implemented for createTable objects.
• createTable: new value for type (3) displays only absolute frequencies for categorical variables.
• export2latex.createTable, export2latex.cbind.createTable: new argument ‘label’ implemented to put a label for each table to be cited in the main LaTeX document.
• chisq.test2: computes simulated p-values for the chi-squared test when it is not possible to compute assymptotic nor exact fisher test.
• compareGroups: new argument ‘p.mult.corrected’ added that gives the option of computing multiple comparison corrected p-values or non-corrected p-values.
• regicor: some variables names have been changed (gender to sex, histbp to histhtn).
• example data sets: ‘myData’ example data set has been removed and ‘regicor’ data set is used in the examples instead.

compareGroups 0.1-6

2010-03-25

MAIN CHANGES

• compareGroups: can deal with Surv objects as response variables in order to compute appropiate p-values for a cohort (time-to-response) studies.
• plot.compareGroups: perform appropiate plots when response is of class ‘Surv’ (kaplan-meier, etc.)
• export2html: new function created to export tables to HTML format
• plot.compareGroups: new internal functions created to draw proper plots for survival class variables
  
• createTable: new argument ‘show.p.overall’.
• createTable: change default value for ‘show.p.all’ argument to FALSE.
• export2csv and export2html: new argument created which is the same as ‘which.table’ in ‘export2latex’ function
• plot.compareGroups: bug fixed in performing shapiro-Wilks test on >5000 size sample.
• export2latex: new arguments ‘caption’ and ‘loc.caption’ added.
• argument silent set to TRUE in all functions where try have been applied.

compareGroups 0.1-5

2010-08-20

• print.createTable: lines in header and botoom of the tables are printed, using some characters from integer2ascii function of oce package.
• print.createTable, export2latex, export2csv: new argument ‘nmax’ added.
• export2latex: environment longtable is used, instead of table.
• compareGroups: new argument ‘simplify’ added.
• MAIN change: it is possible not to specify any grouping variable, and descriptives for all sample are performed without p-values.
• print.createTable, export2latex, export2csv: bug fixed when row-variables with no data present.
• plot.compareGroups method now plots barplots for categorical variable, as well as bivariate plots (row-variables vs grouping variable).
• [.summary.compareGroups method deleted and new [.compareGroups method created instead.
• export2csv: now writes the N (sample size) for each group in the header line.
• createTable: argument ‘hide’ changed, now the user can specify either the position of the cateogory to be hidden or the name of this category.
• createTable: new argument ‘hide.no’ added, that allows the user to specify which category to be hidden for all 2-level row-variables.
• createTable: bug fixed, when only 1 row-variable and show.all=FALSE.
• print.createTable changed: ‘which.table’ argument added that specifyies which table is printed (descr, avail or both). By default, only ‘descr’ table is printed.
• export2latex: ‘which.table’ argument added add an argument that specifyies which table is printed (descr, avail or both). By default, only ‘descr’ table is printed.
• export2latex: ‘file’ argument can be missing. In this case, LaTex code is printed in the R console. This function returns the LaTeX code like print.xtable does.
• export2latex: ‘size’ argument added.
• compareGroups.formula: bug fixed in removing variables using ‘-’.
• compare.i: bug fixed in p-value for multiple comparison for a normal row-variable.
• createTable: automatacally detects if grouping variable is an ordered factor to display p-trend.

compareGroups 0.1-4

2010-07-30

• print.compareGroups: fix a bug, significant p-values codes 0.01 has been replaced by 0.1
• export2latex: substitute some special character ($, <, >, >=, <=, &, …) in the grouping variable label, and ‘&’ for row-variables and group levels.
• compareGroups.default: added an option to specify different quantiles from Q1 and Q3 (min and max for example) for non-normal variables.
• [.summary.compareGroups method

compareGroups 0.1-3

2010-07-27

• fixed a bug in ‘print.createTable’, ‘export2csv’ and ‘export2latex’ functions when there is only one row-variable

compareGroups 0.1-2

2010-07-27

• MAIN CHANGE: submitted to CRAN.
• package no more available in www.regicor.org

compareGroups 0.1-1

2010-07-26

• fixed a bug in ‘print.createTable’, ‘export2csv’ and ‘export2latex’ functions when there is only one group
• some words changed in help documentation

compareGroups 0.1-0

2010-06-22

• ‘compareGroups’ created and uploaded in www.regicor.org

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