NEWS

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fabricatr 1.0.2 (2024-01-16)

• Minor changes to stay current on CRAN.

fabricatr 1.0.0 (2022-06-29)

• draw_categorical() now returns a factor when category_labels is specified.
• draw_ordered() now returns an ordered factor when break_labels is specified.
• draw_ordered() performance is improved when returning a factor.

fabricatr 0.16.0 (2022-02-11)

• Replacement draw_likert function.
• join function renamed to join_using to avoid confusion with other R functions and to more clearly indicate its purpose.
• Bug fixes.

fabricatr 0.14.0 (2021-02-09)

• Bug fixes

fabricatr 0.12.0 (2021-01-09)

• Added potential_outcomes (creates multiple columns of potential outcomes according to a formula)
• Added reveal_outcomes (reveals observed outcomes on the basis of potential outcomes and a treatment assignment)
• Added draw_multivariate (interface for adding correlated draws to fabricate calls)

fabricatr 0.10.0 (2019-09-04)

• Changes for compatibility with rlang 0.4.0
• Minor bug fixes

fabricatr 0.8.0 (2019-03-12)

• Changes to prepare for R 3.6.0

fabricatr 0.6.0 (2018-08-23)

• Added split-modify-combine functionality to modify_level via the by argument.
• Changed behavior of draw_ordered to ensure categories are data-independent and adding a strict option that replaces values with NA if values are outside all breaks.
• Labeled correlate functionality as experimental.
• Many bug fixes.

fabricatr 0.4.0 (2018-03-21)

• recycle() helper function for expanding and recycling data
• Added correlate() function to allow users to generate arbitrary correlated random variables.
• Added category_labels argument to draw_categorical
• Added draw_quantile and split_quantile functions
• Major updates to test harness
• Changed ID label stapling behaviour in fabricate calls.
• Allow users to pass ID_label in level creation calls to allow back-door unnamed level calls.
• Bugfix for constants in certain modify_level contexts.
• Changed specification of latent variables with links; users should now provide latent as an argument when using a link.
• New syntax for using length(ID) from upper level to define N of lower level.
• When passing a vector to draw_categorical prob argument, package now sends message instead of warning.
• Major additions to documentation and vignettes, including vignettes for common social sciences variables, time series, and using other creation packages with fabricatr.
• Bugfix in certain cases with single-level variables autocompleting to "data" and not working.
• Added unique_labels argument to resample_data to allow block-level statistic calculation.

fabricatr 0.2.0 (2018-01-25)

First CRAN submission for fabricatr