NEWS

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midfieldr 1.0.3.9

Current development version

New features

• New function post_bacc_terms() to identify rows of post-baccalaureate terms to exclude.
• New utilities look_at(), catch_error(), and sort_uniq() that wrap base R functions with our preferred arguments.
• Add data set cip2010, constructed from a recent download of the source file (CIPCode2010.csv) from NCES. Has the same data structure as the existing cip dataset, but with more rows.
• Renamed/revised functions and their arguments:
  • completion_status() replaces the deprecated add_completion_status()
  • data_sufficiency() replaces the deprecated add_data_sufficiency()
  • filter_programs() replaces the deprecated filter_cip()
  • select_records() replaces the deprecated select_required()
  • timely_term() replaces the deprecated add_timely_term()

Minor improvements

• Data frame class is preserved (or attempted to be preserved) in all functions with a data frame input/output.
• New versions of toy data and case study data for consistency with midfielddata.

Bug fixes

• In vignettes, fixed .SD[] where finding the first instance of a term should return more than one row, e.g., graduating with a double degree.
• This same fix added two rows to the study_observations built-in data set.

midfieldr 1.0.3 (2026-05-10)

2026--05 CRAN release

• Noted the transfer of the research database to ASEE
• Convert vignettes to non-vignette articles available on the website.
• Add re-export of wrapr check_equiv_frames() to replace same_content()
• Add composite column keys of the course data table to select_required()
• Add datasets grade_scale and sat_act_scale

midfieldr 1.0.2 (2024-05-16)

2024--05

• Edit argument descriptions and correct typos.
• Update the midfieldr-package.R file
• No change in functionality.

midfieldr 1.0.1 (2023-07-08)

2023--07, initial CRAN submission

• Significant changes from earlier versions, no backwards compatibility, prompting version number change to 1.0.0.
• Edit practice data values for consistency with research data values
• Initial round of runtime assertions and unit tests complete
• Make function names and arguments internally consistent
• Edit functions to use data.table functionality
• Remove dependency on dplyr and related packages
• Replace Travis CI with GitHub Actions for CI
• Switch to package tinytest for unit testing
• Completely overhaul midfieldr functions

midfieldr 0.1.0

2018--06, initial development version public on GitHub