Changes in version 1.0.3.9                       

Current development version

New features

  - New function add_post_bacc() to identify rows of post-baccalaureate
    terms to exclude
  - New function select_basic_cols() to replace deprecated
    select_required()
  - 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.
  - Add feature in functions that operate on data frames to attempt to
    return data frames of the same class as the input, e.g., data.frame,
    data.table, or tibble.

Minor improvements

  - New versions of toy data and case study data for consistency with
    midfielddata.
  - Revise README for brevity. Use toy data to illustrate usage.

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.

On the website

  - Revise "Get started" article for brief but comprehensive
    introduction to all functions.
  - New article to demonstrate transforming NCES CIP code files into a
    midfieldr-compatible data structure.

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 1.0.2 (2024-05-16)                  

2024--05

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

                 Changes in version 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

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

2018--06, initial development version public on GitHub