Changelog

DataExplorer 0.4.0

New Features

• #33: Added PlotStr to visualize data structure.
• #40: Added network graph to GenerateReport.

Bug Fixes

• #32: Fixed pandoc requirement error in unit test on cran.
• #34: Fixed error message when quiet is not supplied. In addition, report directory are printed through message() instead of cat().
• #35: Fixed rprojroot not found error.

Enhancements

• #12: Added vignette: dataexplorer-intro.
• #36: Fixed warnings from data.table in DropVar.
• #37: Changed all cat() to message().
• #38: Added option to order bars in BarDiscrete.
• #39: Extended SetNaTo to discrete features.
• Added more examples in README file.

DataExplorer 0.3.0

New Features

• #25: Added SetNaTo to quickly reset missing numerical values.
• #29: Added DropVar to quickly drop variables by either name or column position.

Bug Fixes

• #24: CorrelationDiscrete now displays all factor levels instead of contrasts from model.matrix.

Enhancements

• #11: Functions with return values will now match the input class and set it back.
• #22: Added documentation for num_all_missing in SplitColType.
• #23: Added additional measures (in addition to frequency) to CollapseCategory.
• #26: Removed density estimation section from report template.
• #31: Added flexibility to name the new category in CollapseCategory.

Other notes

• #30: In CollapseCategory, update = TRUE will only work with input data as data.table. However, it is still possible to view the frequency distribution with any input data class, as long as update = FALSE.

DataExplorer 0.2.6

Bug Fixes

• #20: Fixed permission denied bug due to intermediates_dir argument in knitr::render.

Enhancements

• #16: Improved handling of missing values.

DataExplorer 0.2.5

Bug Fixes

• #18: GenerateReport now handles data without discrete or continuous features.

Enhancements

• #14: Updated rmarkdown template for GenerateReport.
• #1: Features with all NA values will be ignored in BarDiscrete.

DataExplorer 0.2.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a major bug in GenerateReport function due to package renaming.

Enhancements

• GenerateReport will now print the directory of the report to console.

DataExplorer 0.2.3

New Features

• Added function CollapseCategory to collapse sparse categories for discrete features.
• Added correlation heatmap for both continuous and discrete features.
• Added density plot for continuous features.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in BarDiscrete and CorrelationDiscrete for not plotting non-factor class.
• Minor changes for CRAN re-submission.

Enhancements

• Changed grid layout for BarDiscrete and HistogramContinuous.
• Features with all missing values will be ignored.
• Switched position between continuous and discrete features in report template.
• Renamed package name to DataExplorer.
• Added NEWS.md.
• Removed BoxplotContinuous.