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ndi (development version)

ndi v0.1.5

New Features

• None

Updates

• ‘DescTools’ is now Suggests to fix Rd cross-references NOTE
• Fixed ‘lost braces in ’ NOTE for anthopolos(), atkinson(), bell(), bemanian_beyer(), bravo(), duncan(), krieger(), messer(), powell_wiley(), sudano(), and white() functions
• Fixed ‘Moved Permanently’ content by replacing the old URL with the new URL
• Fixed citation for Slotman et al. (2022) in CITATION

ndi v0.1.4

New Features

• Added atkinson() function to compute the aspatial income or racial/ethnic Atkinson Index (AI) based on Atkinson (1970) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Added bell() function to compute the aspatial racial/ethnic Isolation Index (II) based on Shevky & Williams (1949; ISBN-13:978-0837156378) and Bell (1954)
• Added white() function to compute the aspatial racial/ethnic Correlation Ratio (V) based on Bell (1954) and White (1986)
• Added sudano() function to compute the aspatial racial/ethnic Location Quotient (LQ) based on Merton (1939) and Sudano et al. (2013)
• Added bemanian_beyer() function to compute the aspatial racial/ethnic Local Exposure and Isolation (LEx/Is) metric based on Bemanian & Beyer (2017)

Updates

• car is now Imports
• Fixed bug in reverse dependency check failure for anthopolos() and bravo() functions removing returnValue() when data are not missing
• Thank you, Roger Bivand, for the catch. Relates to ndi Issue #5
• Updated duncan(), gini(), krieger(), messer(), and powell_wiley() for consistency in messaging when data are not missing
• Updated tests for anthopolos() and bravo() if Sys.getenv("CENSUS_API_KEY") != ""
• Added omit_NAs argument in duncan() function to choose if NA values will be included in its computation
• In duncan() function, if any smaller geographic unit has zero counts the output for its larger geographic unit will be NA
• Fixed bug in duncan() function for multiple subgroup and subgroup_ref selections
• Updated documentation throughout
• Added GitHub R-CMD-check
• Updated citation style for CITATION file

ndi v0.1.3

New Features

• Added duncan() function to compute the Dissimilarity Index (DI) based on Duncan & Duncan (1955) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Thank you for the feature suggestion, Jessica Madrigal
• Added ‘utils.R’ file with internal di_fun() function for duncan() function

Updates

• Fixed bug in bravo() function where ACS-5 data (2005-2009) are from the “B15002” question and “B06009” after
• Fixed bug in missingness warning for all metrics
• utils is now Imports
• Updated vignette and README with new features
• Updated Description in DESCRIPTION
• Updated tests
• Updated CITATION with new citation for the additional metric
• Updated maintainer contact information

ndi v0.1.2

New Features

• Added krieger() function to compute the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) based on Feldman et al. (2015) and Krieger et al. (2016) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Thank you for the feature suggestion, David Berrigan
• Added df argument for the messer() and powell_wiley() functions to specify a pre-formatted data set input for the NDI computation
• Added round_output argument for the messer() and powell_wiley() functions to provide raw output as the default and rounded output as optional.
• Thank you for the suggested enhancements, Chris Prener
• Added DCtracts2020 a testing data set for the ndi package and its documentation

Updates

• Fixed bug in powell_wiley() function where the internal PCA will now run properly if only one factor has an eigenvalue above 1
• Optimized the code to calculate missingness in all functions
• Thank you for the suggested bug fixes, Jacob Englert
• Fixed bug in powell_wiley() function where “PctNoPhone” before 2015 is “DP04_0074PE” and “DP04_0075PE” after
• Thank you for alerting this issue, Jessica Gleason
• Relaxed year argument in functions to include any year after 2009 or 2010 for the indices
• Cleaned-up output formatting in functions
• usethis is now Suggests and LazyData is set to ‘true’
• Updated tests for the df argument in messer() and powell_wiley() functions
• Updated vignette and README with new features
• Fixed typos throughout documentation
• Updated Description in DESCRIPTION and fixed typos
• Updated ‘package.R’ with new details
• Updated CITATION with new citations for the additional metric

ndi v0.1.1

New Features

• Added anthopolos() function to compute the Racial Isolation Index (RI) based on based on Anthopolos et al. (2011) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Added bravo() function to compute the Educational Isolation Index (EI) based on based on Bravo et al. (2021) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Added gini() function to retrieve the Gini Index based on Gini (1921) for specified counties/tracts 2009 onward
• Thank you for the feature suggestions, Jessica Madrigal

Updates

• Matrix and sf are now Imports
• Updated vignette and README for new features
• Fixed typos throughout documentation
• Updated Description in DESCRIPTION
• Updated ‘package.R’ with new details and section
• Updated CITATION with new citations for the additional metrics

ndi v0.1.0

• Fixed invalid URL and typos in package README.md

ndi v0.0.1

• Initial CRAN submission

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