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NEWS

Versioning

Releases will be numbered with the following semantic versioning format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

  • Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor
    and patch)
  • New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor
    (and resets the patch)
  • Bug fixes and misc. changes bumps the patch

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 2.2.0

BUG FIXES

  • bag_o_words did not make use of the bag_o_words2 helper function that has
    finer grained control of the output. ... were ignored but now are respected.
  • fry threw an error if a group contained < 300 words but had enough text to
    generate 2 texts chunks of 100 words each, caught by S. Enrico P. Indiogine.
    The bug has been fixed as these groups are dropped and a warning given.
  • phrase_net threw an error caused by dplyr's (0.3) approach to subsetting
    columns. Proviously a vector was returned, now a tbl_df object is returned:
    tidyverse/dplyr#587. This was adtreeded by using
    explicit df[[index]] rather than df[, index].

NEW FEATURES

  • chunker added to break text, optionally by grouping variables, into equal
    chunks. The chunk size can be specified by giving number of words to be in
    each chunk or the number of chunks.

IMPROVEMENTS

all_words gains char.keep and char2space arguments to enable retention
of characters and multi word phrases. These features are passed to
freq_terms as well. Suggestd by stackoverflow's lawyeR
(http://stackoverflow.com/a/26162401/1000343).

CHANGES

  • rm_url has been moved into its own canned regex pattern extraction/replacer
    package named qdapRegex.
  • name2sex now uses the gender package to predict sex. This makes the
    function slightly slower but much more accurate than previous versions.
    Because of this increased accuracy and dependence on gender, the arguments
    pred.sex, fuzzy.match, and database are no longer necessary and have
    been removed.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 2.1.1

BUG FIXES

  • syllable_count returned the sentence (recycled) in the words column of the
    output. This behavior has been fixed. See GitHub issue #188 for details.
  • syn returned antonyms for some words. This was caused by the dictionary:
    qdapDictionaries::key.syn contained antonyms and elemets the were error
    messages (character). This has been fixed. Reference issue #190. (Jingjing Zou)
  • The pres_debates2012 data set contained three errors in speech attribution.
    This has been corrected and the turn of talk (tot) as well.
  • word_stats would throw an error if no poly-syllable words existed. This has
    been corrected (reported by Nicolas Turenne).

NEW FEATURES

  • qdap_df and %&% added to mimic some of the functionality of dplyr's
    tbl_df and chaining pipe in a more specific, less flexible, qdap oriented
    way.
  • Text added to view and change the text.var attribute of a data.frame of the classqdap_df`.
  • cumulative generic method added to view cumulative scores over time.
  • formality picks up a cumulative method.
  • polarity picks up a cumulative method.
  • end_mark picks up a class (end_mark), plot method, and a cumulative
    method.
  • syllable_sum, polysyllable_sum, and combo_syllable_sum pick up a
    class, plot method, and a cumulative method.
  • wfm becomes a generic method currently applied to a text.var that is:
    character, factor (coerced to character), or wfdf.
  • unbag added as a compliment to bag_o_words and friends for undoing string
    splitting. A convenience wrapper for paste(collapse = " ").
  • as.Corpus.TermDocumentMatrix, as.Corpus.DocumentTermMatrix, and
    as.Corpus.wfm added to convert a matrix format to a tm::Corpus.
  • exclude becomes a generic method for various classes. Functionality is the
    same but with improved code readability.
  • check_spelling_interactive, check_spelling, which_misspelled, and
    correct allow the user to identify potentially misspelled words and
    optionally suggest replacements.
  • random_data & random_sent added to generate random sentence data sets and
    vectors.
  • comma_spacer added to ensure strings with commas contain a space after them.
  • check_text added to identify potential problems in text.
  • replace_ordinal added to convert ordinal representations of 1 through 100 to
    strictly ordinal text (e.g., "1st" becomes "first").
  • A vignette: Cleaning Text & Debugging was added to assist users with
    cleaning and debugging problems in qdap.
  • pronoun_type, and subject_pronoun_type, object_pronoun_type added to
    examine usage of subject/object pronouns by grouping variable.

MINOR FEATURES

IMPROVEMENTS

  • wfm gains a speedup through generic classes and tm package integration
    (strip is no longer used in wfm).
  • as.tdm.character and as.dtm.character gain a speed boost with a tm
    package integration.
  • Added message to as.data.frame.Corpus for missing end-marks suggesting the
    use of: sent.split = FALSE.
  • as.Corpus familiy of functions didn't necessarily respect document names and
    sometimes used numeric sequence instead. The introduction of a reader via
    tm::readTabular has fixed this.
  • sentSplit now gives warnings for text that may contain anomalies such as:
    non-ASCII characters, factors, missing punctuation, empty cells, and no
    alphabetic characters found.
  • read.transcript now gives a warning when reading from a .docx file and the
    separator (sep) used is still found in the text as this may indicate the
    data did not split correctly.
  • dispersion_plot now takes a named list of vectors of terms as the argument to
    match.terms. The vectors are combined as a unified theme named with the
    names of the list supplied to match.terms.

CHANGES

  • as.data.frame.Corpus's default value for sent.split is now FALSE.
  • The state column in the qdap::DATA2 data-set is now character (previously
    factor).

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 2.1.0

BUG FIXES

  • new_project did not copy the .Rprofile over into the new project. This has
    been fixed. Reference issue #184.
  • sentiment_frame coerced words to factor. stringsAsFactors = FALSE has
    been added to prevent this.
  • polarity did not work on > 1 grams due to a bug in sentiment_frame
    converting character to factor (thanks for the find @chewth). See GitHub
    issue #185 for details.

NEW FEATURES

  • unique_by added to allow the user to find terms unique to individual
    elements of a grouping variable.
  • build_qdap_vignette replaces the temporary place holder version of the
    Introduction to qdap vignette. This function will replace the (1) HTML,
    (2) source, & (3) R code found in browseVignettes(package = 'qdap').

MINOR FEATURES

  • sub_holder picks up a alpha.type argument that allows the user to specify
    whether alpha or numeric keys should be used.
  • replace_number picks up a remove argument that removes numbers from text.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • qheat becomes a generic method. This means some of the internal function
    class checking has been moved to individual methods for those classes.
    Additionally, qheat now works with logical matrices/data.frames.
  • The tm package compatibility functions have been renamed in a more R-ish
    way and take the form of generic methods for specific classes. For example,
    df2tm_corpus becomes as.Corpus. Here is a complete list of changes:
    • df2tm_courpus is now as.Corpus
    • tm_corpus2df is now as.data.frame
    • as.wfm is now a generic method
    • tm_corpus2wfm is now as.wfm
    • tm2qdap is now as.wfm
    • tdm is now as.tdm or as.TermDocumentMatrix
    • dtm is now as.dtm or as.DocumentTermMatrix

CHANGES

  • colsplit2df and colpaste2df no longer convert character columns to factor.
  • df2tm_corpus is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of
    qdap. Use as.Corpus instead.
  • tm_corpus2df is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of
    qdap. Use as.data.frame instead.
  • tm2qdap is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of
    qdap. Use as.wfm instead.
  • tm_corpus2wfm is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of
    qdap. Use as.wfm instead.
  • tdm is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of qdap.
    Use as.tdm or as.TermDocumentMatrix instead.
  • dtm is deprecated. It will be removed in a subsequent version of qdap.
    Use as.dtm or as.DocumentTermMatrix instead.
  • The Introduction to qdap .Rmd vignette has been moved to an internal
    directory. The HTML version is not built by default. This saves CRAN space
    and time checking the package source. The file has been replaced with a
    temporary place holder that contains instructions for building the actual
    vignette. The user may also use the build_qdap_vignette directly.
  • qdap incorporates the changes from the tm package version: 0.6:
    http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/news.html Reference issue #187.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 2.0.0

The qdapTools package now houses several former qdap functions. While
qdapTools is a Dependency and all of these functions will be accessible to
the qdap user there is a break in backward compatibility if these functions
are included in code. For this reason this release is a major bump of qdap.

BUG FIXES

  • replace_number did not replace single digits numbers. Spotted by Ben Bolker.
    This behavior has been fixed and unit testing added for this function. See
    issue #178.

NEW FEATURES

  • sub_holder added; this function holds the place for particular character
    values, allowing the user to manipulate the vector and then revert the place
    holders back to the original values.
  • Network method added to make network plots of select qdap objects.
  • qtheme, theme_nightheat, theme_duskheat, theme_norah,theme_cafe, theme_grayscale,theme_badkitchen, andtheme_hipsteradded to style Network` plots.
  • polarity picks up a Network method.
  • formality picks up a Network method.
  • qdap officially begins utilizing the testthat package for unit testing,
    though only a few functions have begun the process, more will be added over
    time.

MINOR FEATURES

IMPROVEMENTS

CHANGES

  • The qdapTools package now houses the following former qdap functions:
    hash, %ha%, hash_look, hms2sec, id, lookup, %l%, %l+%, %l*%,
    repo2github, sec2hms, text2color, url_dl, v_outer, list2df,
    matrix2df, vect2df, list_df2df, list_vect2df, counts2list,
    vect2list, & mtabulate. These functions will continue to be available to
    qdap users in interactive mode (qdapTools is a Dependency and thus these
    functions are loaded into the workspace by default). This will allow this
    bundle of functions to be used outside of qdap without calling the larger qdap
    package per the request of Kirill Muller (see issue #165).
  • As scheduled the dissimilarity function has been removed from the qdap
    package to avoid conflict with the tm package. Use Dissimilarity function
    instead.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.6

MINOR FEATURES

  • polarity picks up a constrain argument that constrains the polarity values
    to be between -1 and 1.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • polarity's equation now uses primes on the de-amplifiers before they're
    confined to be >= -1. This avoids confusion in the indicator function that
    took the de-amplifiers variable and returned the same variable.
  • dist_tab's frequency columns used a capital F in Freq. This was not
    consistent across all column names and has been changed to lower case.

CHANGES

  • polarity_frame is deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent release.
    Please use sentiment_frame instead.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.5

BUG FIXES

  • The An Introduction to qdap vignette contained a broken link in the tm
    Package Compatibility section. This has been fixed. Also the reliance on
    Rgraphviz from the vignette has been removed. This will eliminate CRAN
    WARN in CRAN checks (for some OS) but not the note for tm's reliance on
    Rgraphviz.
  • polarity reported the incorrect number of words for sentences containing
    commas. This has been fixed (Max Ghenis).

NEW FEATURES

  • formality picks up an Animate method.
  • end_mark_by function added as a aggregated grouping version of end_mark.

MINOR FEATURES

  • raj.act.1POS added. raj.act.1POS is a data set for Romeo and Juliet: Act 1
    broken into parts of speech.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • discourse_map picks up a pause argument that enables the user to pause
    between plots in interactive mode.

CHANGES

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.4

BUG FIXES

NEW FEATURES

  • gantt and gantt_wrap (single facet) pick up and Animate method.
  • polarity picks up an Animate method.
  • vertex_apply and edge apply added to make uniform changes to lists of
    igraph objects.

MINOR FEATURES

IMPROVEMENTS

  • discourse_map picks up a condense argument that allows the user to
    condense sequential rows for like grouping variable sub groups.
  • list_df2df names now use a zero padded numeric portion for default names.
    For example c("L1", "L2", "L3", ... "L10"), becomes
    c("L01", "L02", "L03", ... "L10").

CHANGES

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.3

BUG FIXES

  • colpaste2df dropped the column name for a single retained column when
    keep.orig = FALSE. See GitHub issue #157 for more.
  • multigsub (mgsub) would return NA for replacement of length 1 after the
    addition of the order.pattern (used to prevent substrings from
    replacing meta-strings) in version 1.3.2.

NEW FEATURES

  • phrase_net function provides functioning similar to the Many Eyes
    Phrase Net plot.
  • discourse_map function provides a network mapping of the flow of discourse
    between social actors. Function output is Animate ready as well. See
    ?discourse_map and http://trinker.github.io/qdap_examples/animation_dialogue
    for more.
  • Animate function added to convert select qdap outputs to an animated
    sequence. See ?Animate.discourse_map for more.

MINOR FEATURES

  • synonyms_frame (syn_frame) added to allow the user to create a synonym
    hash for the revamped synonyms function.
  • repo2github function added to send a directory to GitHub upon first commit.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • new_project has an improved directory structure and works with any version
    of the reports package.
  • synonyms function used the env.syl hash data from qdapDictionaries
    internally. This approach could cause problems if used within other functions
    in a package. It also limits the usability of synonyms. The synonyms
    function picks up a synonym.frame argument that allows the user to specify
    a synonym hash table. This can be created via the synonyms_frame function
    (per a request from J. Aravind).

CHANGES

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.2

This is a patch release to address the archiving of the lsa package.

BUG FIXES

  • The qdap-tm Package Compatibility Vignette contained an error in the
    Feinerer I, Hornik K, Meyer D (2008) reference (pages listed as 51-54 has been
    corrected to pages 1-54 as well as incorrect journal). Caught by Kurt Hornik.

MINOR FEATURES

  • DocumentTermMatrix and TermDocumentMatrix from the tm package pick up a
    Filter method.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • multigsub picks up an argument, order.pattern, to prevent substrings from
    replacing meta-strings.
  • The following data sets were added to qdapDictionaries package:
    Fry_1000, Leveled_Dolch, Dolch

CHANGES

  • The package lsa has been removed from Suggests field in the DESCRIPTIONN
    file, examples, and vignettes.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.1

A version bump necessary for Re-Submission to CRAN.

CHANGES

  • new_project was reconfigured with the old code that does not require the
    newest version of the reports package.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.3.0

BUG FIXES

  • read.transcript could leave a QDAP_PLACE_HOLDER behind if a colon was found
    in the person column. This behavior has been fixed.

  • word_cor's plotting method threw an error if a word did not have any words
    above the r threshold. This behavior has been corrected.

  • Filter overwrote a base R function; this has been fixed per Joshua Ulrich.

  • scores.polarity's print method would return an error if columns were not
    indexed yet were rounded. For instance, the following threw an error:

    scores(with(sentSplit(DATA, 4), polarity(state, person)))[, 1:4]

    This behavior has been fixed.

NEW FEATURES

  • qdap adds an HTML vignette to better explain the intended work flow and
    function use for the package. Use browseVignettes(package = "qdap") to
    open.
  • qdap adds a PDF vignette to describe the compatibility and navigation between
    qdap and the tm packages. Use browseVignettes(package = "qdap") to open.

MINOR FEATURES

IMPROVEMENTS

  • apply_as_df picks up a stopwords and filter arguments that allows the
    user to remove stopwords and min/max length words.
  • plot.word_cor picks up the argument ncol that allows the user to specify
    the number of columns used. This uses ggplot2's facet_wrap rather than
    facet_grid (which is the default if ncol =NULL).
  • name2sex relied upon having qdapDictionaries loaded. This could be an issue
    if the function were used internally. The user now supplies a dictionary of
    names and probabilities.
  • df2tm_corpus gains a demographics.vars argument that allows the user to
    add demographic information to the resulting corpus DMetaDat.
  • tm_corpus2df gains the ability to convert DMetaDat into demographic
    data.frame columns.

CHANGES

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.2.0

BUG FIXES

NEW FEATURES

  • Filter added to give the ability to provide a range of character
    lengths to filter from a wfm object.
  • scores generic method added to view scores from select qdap objects.
  • counts generic method added to view counts from select qdap objects.
  • proportions generic method added to view proportions from select qdap
    objects.
  • preprocessed generic method added to view preprocessed data from select qdap
    objects.
  • apply_as_df added to allow the user to apply qdap functions to a Corpus
    directly.

MINOR FEATURES

  • tm_corpus2wfm added to quickly convert from a tm package Corpus to a qdap
    wfm object.
  • as.wfm added as a means to attempt to coerce a matrix to a wfm object.
  • %l+% added as a counterpart to %l% that assumes missing = NULL.
  • %bs% added as quick counterpart to boolean_search for indexing.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • df2tm_corpus now sets metaData information for ID and creator (based on)
    Sys.info()["user"].
  • matrix2df now accepts a simple_triplet_matrix object as well.
  • word_cor output that was a list (not a correlation matrix) did not have a
    plot method. The plot method for word_cor now handles both matrices and the
    list of correlations.
  • rm_row picks up the contains argument that allows the user to search for,
    and remove rows of, within the string, not just the beginning.
  • read.transcript now handles multiple character spaces as an argument to
    sep when text argument is used.

CHANGES

  • dissimilarity has been renamed to Dissimilarity to prevent tm package
    conflicts. The old version has been deprecated and will be removed in a the
    next version (minor or major) push to CRAN.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.1.0

A version bump necessary for Re-Submission to CRAN.

CHANGES

  • Downgraded the version requirement for the reports package to
    reports (>= 0.1.2) in order to upload to CRAN. reports (>= 0.2.0) is not yet
    available on CRAN.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 1.0.0

The word lists and dictionaries in qdap have been moved to qdapDictionaries.
Additionally, many functions have been renamed with underscores instead of the
former period separators. These changes break backward compatibility. Thus
this is a major release (ver. 1.0.0).

It is the general practice to deprecate functions within a package before
removal, however, the number of necessary changes in light of qdap being
relatively new to CRAN, made these changes sensible at this point.

BUG FIXES

  • qheat's argument by.column = FALSE resulted in an error. This behavior
    has been fixed.
  • question_type did not work because of changes to lookup that did not
    accept a two column matrix for key.match. See GitHub issue #127 for more.
  • combo_syllable.sum threw an error if the text.var contained a cell with an
    all non-character ([a-z]) string. This behavior has been fixed.
  • todo function created by new_project would not report completed tasks if
    report.completed = TRUE.
  • termco and termco.d threw an error if more than one consecutive regex
    special character was passed to match.list or match.string. See GitHub
    issue #128 for more.
  • trans.cloud threw an error if a single list with a named vector was passed
    to target.words. This behavior has been fixed.
  • sentSplit now returns the "tot" column when text.place = "original".
  • all_words output dataframe FREQ column class has been changed from factor to
    numeric. Additionally, the WORDS column prints using left.just but retains
    traditional character properties (print class added). all_words also picks
    up apostrophe.remove and ldots (for strip) arguments.
  • gantt_plot did not handle fill.vars, particularly if the fill was nested
    within the grouping.vars. This behavior has been fixed with corresponding
    examples added.
  • url_dl - Downloaded an empty file when not using a Dropbox key. This
    behavior has been fixed.
  • The cm_code. family of functions had a bug in the output due to
    cm_long2dummy and cm_dummy2long's handling of stretching spans. This has
    been corrected.
  • cm_code.exclude did not output the correct excluded spans. This behavior
    has been corrected.
  • The use of comment to convey object characteristics has been replaced with
    the use of class.
  • question_type did not include question words ending in 'd as part of the
    category. For instance "How'd you like it?" was not classified as a how
    question.
  • beg2char would not include the char if include = TRUE and noc = 1.
  • cm_range2long returned NAs for vectors containing multiple single values.
    See GitHub issue #144 for more.
  • termco family of functions did not handle NA values. This has been fixed.
    (Matt Williamson) See GitHub issue #147 for details.
  • pos threw an error for vectors of length 1. This has been fixed (Kurt
    Hornik). See GitHub issue #150 for details.
  • formality threw an error for vectors of length 1. This has been fixed. (Kurt
    Hornik) See GitHub issue #151 for details.

NEW FEATURES

  • The cm_xxx2long family of functions (cm_df2long, cm_range2long and
    cm_time2long) now have a generic wrapper, cm_2long, to generate the long
    formats.
  • hash_look (and %ha%) a counterpart to hash added to allow quick access
    to a hash table. Intended for use within functions or multiple uses of the
    same hash table, whereas lookup is intended for a single external (non
    function) use which is more convenient though could be slower.
  • boolean_search, a Boolean term search function, added to allow for indexed
    searches of Boolean terms.
  • trans_context is a printing function desired to grab the context (n rows
    before and after) an event (an index from a vector of indices). The function
    prints the indices around the episode from a transcript to the console or a
    .csv, .xlsx, .txt, or .doc file.
  • colpaste2df is a wrapper for paste2 that pastes dataframe columns together
    and outputs a dataframe.
  • colcomb2class quickly combines columns for number of qdap classes including
    output from: termco, question_type, pos_by, and character_table.
  • lview a function to unclass a list output that has a special print method
    that returns only a portion of the output. lview re-classes to "list".
  • word_cor added to find words within grouping variables that are associated
    based on correlation.
  • tm2qdap a function to convert "TermDocumentMatrix" and
    "DocumentTermMatrix" to a wfm added to allow easier integration with the
    tm package.
  • apply_as_tm a function to allow functions intended to be used on the tm
    package's TermDocumentMatrix to be applied to a wfm object.
  • tm_corpus2df and df2tm_corpus added to convert a tm package corpus to a
    dataframe for use in qdap or vice versa.
  • tdm and dtm are now truly compatible with the tm package. tdm and
    dtm produce outputs of the class "TermDocumentMatrix" and
    "DocumentTermMatrix" respectively. This change (coupled with the renaming
    of stopwords to rm_stopwords) should make the two packages logical
    companions and further extend the qdap package to integrate with the many
    packages that already handle "TermDocumentMatrix" and
    "DocumentTermMatrix".
  • cm_distance now uses resampling of data from the null model to generate
    pvalues for the mean code distances. Useful for determining if an association
    (small distance) between codes is likely to happen if the null is true.
  • dispersion_plot added to enable viewing of word dispersion through
    discourse.
  • word_proximity added to compliment dispersion_plot and word_cor
    functions. word_proximity gives the average distance between words in
    the unit of sentences.

MINOR FEATURES

  • url_dl now takes quoted string urls supplied to ... (no url argument is
    supplied)
  • condense is a function that condense dataframe columns that are a list of
    vectors to a single vector of strings. This outputs a dataframe with
    condensed columns that can be wrote to csv/xlsx.
  • mcsv_w now uses condense to attempt to attempt to condense columns that are
    lists of vectors to a single vector of strings. This adds flexibility to
    mcsv_w with more data sets. mcsv_w now writes lists of dataframes to
    multiple csvs (e.g., the output from termco or polarity). mcsv_w picks
    up a dataframes argument, an optional character vector supplied in lieu of
    \ldots that grabs the dataframes from an environment (default id the Global
    environment).
  • ngrams now has an argument ellipsis that passes further arguments supplied
    to strip
  • dtm added to compliment tdm, allowing for easier integration with other R
    packages that utilize tdm/dtm.
  • dir_map picks up a use.path argument that allows the user to specify a
    more flexible path to the created pre-formed read.transcript scripts based
    on something like file.path(getwd(), ). This means portability of code on
    different machines.
  • polarity_frame a function to make a hash environment lookup for use with the
    polarity function.
  • DATA.SPLIT a sentSplit version of the DATA data-set has been added to
    qdap.
  • gantt_plot acceptsNULL.for grouping.var and figures for "all" rows as a
    single grouping var.
  • replace_number now handles 10^47 digits compared to 10^14 previously.
  • The new_project function gains a github argument that optionally sends the
    repo to GitHub public account upon creation.
  • qheat, polarity.plot and formality.plot pick up the argument plot
    which optionally suppresses the plotting. This is useful if the user is
    operating in knitr, sewave, etc. and wishes to alter/add onto the plot.
  • lookup now takes missing = NULL. This results in the original values in
    terms corresponding to the missing elements being retained.
  • cm_time.temp picks up a grouping.var argument that works similarly to
    cm_range.temp's grouping.var. cm_time.temp also takes hour values for
    start and end as in end = "01:22:03".
  • gantt_rep picks up a generic plot method.
  • Functions in the cm_code.xxx and cm_xxx2long pick up a generic plot method
    that utilizes gantt_wrap to plot a Gantt plot of the span data.
  • Functions in the cm_code.xxx and cm_xxx2long pick up a generic summary
    method. This summary method has its own plot method that utilizes qheat to
    plot a heatmap of the summary statistics. The generic print method
    (print.sum_cmspans) is useful for output intended for publication.
  • qheat picks up a facet.vars argument that allows a character vector of
    length 1 or 2 to facet by.
  • question_type gives the indices of questions via $inds.
  • colsplit2df not splits multiple columns to match the capabilities of
    colpaste2df.
  • sentSplit now handles repeated measures and picks up a turn of talk plot
    method.
  • tot_plot now handles repeated measures and grouping.var to be nested
    within the turn of talk.
  • wfm now uses mtabulate and is ~10x faster.
  • plot.polarity gains arguments for optional error bars using the standard
    error of the mean polarity.
  • exclude now works with wfm and the tm package's DocumentTermMatrix and
    TermDocumentMatrix classes.
  • rm_url removes/replaces URLs in a string(s).
  • matrix2df added (under list2df) to convert rownames of matrix to a
    dataframe column.

CHANGES

  • The dictionaries and word lists for qdap have been moved to their own package,
    qdapDictionaries. This will allow easier access to these resources beyond
    the qdap package as well as reducing the overall size of the qdap package.
    Because this is a major change that make break the code of some users the
    major release number has been upped to 1. The following name changes have
    occurred:

    • increase.amplification.words -> became -> amplification.words
    • The deamplification.words wordlist and env.pol dictionary were added as
      well.

  • qdap gains an HTML package vignette to better explain the intended work flow
    and function use for the package. This is not currently a part of the build
    but can be accessed via:

    http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/trinker/qdap/blob/master/vignettes/qdap_vignette.html

    Note that the vignette may include development version functions not yet
    available in the current CRAN version

  • polarity utilizes a new, unbounded algorithm based on weighting to determine
    polarity.

  • gantt_wrap no longer accepts unquoted strings to the plot.var argument.

  • cm_df.temp loses the logical csv argument. file.name have been replaced
    with file to fit conventional R naming schemes.

  • The plotting feature of gantt has been removed and a plot method has been
    added. The user can plot the output from gantt in base or ggplot2
    graphics.

  • cm_time2long loses the argument start.end to ensure that the cmspans
    class produced would operate as expected.

  • Most exported functions utilizing a period separator have been replaced with
    underscore named versions.

  • wf_combine renamed wfm_combine to be consistent.

  • question_type algorithm improvements including implied do/does/did handling.

  • list2df and mtabulate now exported.

  • stopwords has been renamed to rm_stopwords(rm_stop shorthand) to better
    fit what the action the function performs and to avoid conflicts with the
    tm package.

  • replace_number's num.paste becomes logical rather than character input.
    This makes use easier as the user doesn't need to remember arguments.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 0.2.5

Patch release. This version deals with the changes in the openNLP package
that effect qdap. Next major release scheduled after slidify package is
pushed to CRAN.

qdap 0.2.3

BUG FIXES

  • new_project placed a report in the CORRESPONDENCE directory rather than
    CONTACT_INFO
  • strip would not allow the characters "/" and "-" to be passed to
    char.keep. This has been fixed. (Jens Engelmann)
  • beg2end would only grab first character of a string after n -1 occurrences of
    the character. For example:
    beg2char(c("abc-edw-www", "nmn-ggg", "rer-qqq-fdf"), "-", 2) resulted in
    "abc-e" "nmn-g" "rer-q" rather than "abc-edw" "nmn-ggg" "rer-qqq"

NEW FEATURES

  • names2sex a function for predicting gender from name.
  • Added NAMES and NAMES_SEX data-sets, based on 1990 U.S. census data.
  • tdm added as an equivalent to TermDocumentMatrix from the tm package. This
    allows for portability across text analysis packages.

MINOR FEATURES

  • mgsub now gets a trim argument that optionally removes trailing leading
    white spaces.
  • lookup now takes a list of named vectors for the key.match argument.

CHANGES

  • new_project directory can now be transferred without breaking paths (i.e.,
    file.path(getwd(), "DIR/file.ext") is used rather than the full file path).

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 0.2.2

BUG FIXES

  • genXtract labels returned the word "right" rather than the right edge string.
    See http://stackoverflow.com/a/15423439/1000343 for an example of the old
    behavior. This behavior has been fixed.
  • gradient_cloud's min.freq locked at 1. This has been fixed. (Manuel
    Fdez-Moya)
  • termco would produce an error if single length named vectors were passed to
    match.list and no multi-length vectors were supplied. Also an error was thrown
    if an unnamed multi-length vector was passed to match.list. This behavior has
    been fixed.

NEW FEATURES

  • tot_plot a visualizing function that uses a bar graph to visualize patterns
    in sentence length and grouping variables by turn of talk.
  • beg2char and char2end functions to grab text from beginning of string to a
    character or from a character to the end of a string.
  • ngrams function to calculate ngrams by grouping variable.

MINOR FEATURES

  • genX and bracketX gain an extra argument space.fix to remove extra
    spaces left over from bracket removal.
  • Updated out of date Dropbox url download in url_dl. url_dl also takes the
    Dropbox key as well.

CHANGES

  • qdap is now compiled for mac users (as openNLP now passes CRAN checks with no
    Errors on Mac).

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 0.2.1

BUG FIXES

  • word_associate colors the word cloud appropriately and deals with the error
    caused by a grouping variable not containing any words from 1 or more of the
    vectors of a list supplied to match string
  • trans.cloud produced an error when expand.target was TRUE. This error has
    been eliminated.
  • termco would eliminate > 1 columns matching an identical search.term found
    in a second vector of match.list. termco now counts repeated terms multiple
    times.
  • cm_df.transcript did not give the correct speaker labels (fixed).

NEW FEATURES

  • gradient_cloud: Binary gradient Word Cloud - A new plotting function
    that plots and colors words for a binary variable based on which group of
    the binary variable uses the term more frequently.
  • new_project: A project template generating function designed to increase
    efficiency and standardize work flow. The project comes with a .Rproj file
    for easy use with RStudio as well as a .Rprofile that makes loading and sourcing
    of packages, data and project functions. This function uses the reports package
    to generate an extensive reports folder.

MINOR FEATURES

  • stemmer, stem2df and stem.words now explicitly have the argument
    char.keep set to "~~" to enable retaining special character formerly stripped
    away.
  • hms2sec: A function to convert from h : m : s format to seconds.
  • mcsv_w now takes a list of data.frames.
  • cm_range.temp now takes the arguments text.var and grouping.var that will
    automatically output these (grouping.var) columns as range coded indices.
  • wfm gets as speed boost as the code has been re-written to be faster.
  • read.transcript now reads .txt files as well as text similar to read.table.

CHANGES

  • sec2hms is the new name for convert
  • folder and delete have been moved to the reports package which is imported
    by qdap. Previously folder would not generate a directory with the
    time/date stamp if no directory name was given; this has been fixed, though
    the function now resides in the reports package.

CHANGES IN qdap VERSION 0.2.0

  • The first installation of the qdap package
  • Package designed to bridge the gap between qualitative data and quantitative
    analysis
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