NEWS

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retroharmonize 0.2.7 (2026-01-14)

• Due to an archived dependency, the package was temporary archived on CRAN, this is a candidate to bring it back.
• Dependencies were modernised.
• Unit test were updated, extended, and some small (earlier not flagged) edge cases better handled.
• No change in the function API.

retroharmonize 0.2.6

• Various improvements due to extensive testing and feedback. No change in the API.

retroharmonize 0.2.5

• Unified function interface and parameter names.
• This development version has a few known issues.

retroharmonize 0.2.3

• New long form documentation.
• metadata_surveys_create() will take now either a list of surveys, or file names of saved surveys.

retroharmonize 0.2.2

• All functions containing 'wave' in the name are deprecated. Survey 'waves' are renamed to 'survey_list', because 'waves' is used in Eurobarometer and a more generic and standardized interface was built.

retroharmonize 0.2.0 (2021-11-02)

• Several documentation good practices. (Thanks for the contribution from @dieghernan).
• The former create_codebook() function is now create_codebook() for naming consistency.

retroharmonize 0.1.18

• New functions codebook_create() and codebook_waves_create()
• Improved retroharmonize_labelled_spss_survey() summary method.
• Much exception handling included in the import file (discovered problems with Caucasus Barometer files.)
• Sometimes haven::read_spss() reads columns as labelled, even though they do not have a single label. In class survey() we convert them back to numeric or character types.

retroharmonize 0.1.17 (2021-06-27)

• Released on CRAN. (Date: 2021-06-27)

retroharmonize 0.1.16

• Package moved to rOpenGov.
• Arab Barometer tutorial vignette.
• Transition to tidyverse 1.0+ with using the rlang .data pronoun, etc.
• Bug fix in harmonize_waves(): Date types are now correctly harmonized.
• We started building an experimental APIs data is running regions regularly and improving known statistical data sources.

retroharmonize 0.1.15

• Documentation improvements.
• A new function, harmonize_var_names(), helps to systematically rename variables in a list of surveys. Conventional names to keep are returned by suggest_permanent_names(), and the helper function suggest_var_names() provides a simple wrapper around var_label_normalize() and suggest_permanent_names().
• A new function, subset_waves(), helps to subset a wave of surveys.

retroharmonize 0.1.14

• harmonize_values() now accepts perl-like regex.

retroharmonize 0.1.13 (2020-09-21)

• In the examples that use file operations, dontrun{} replaced by donttest{}.
• This is the first released version on CRAN.

retroharmonize 0.1.12

retroharmonize 0.1.6-0.1.12 are making the package ready for CRAN release.

retroharmonize 0.1.9

• New function read_dta() for importing STATA files.

retroharmonize 0.1.5

• retroharmonize 0.1.1-0.1.5 are not intended for release, they contain numerous development stages of a new package.

retroharmonize 0.1.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Class definition and description.