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BMisc 1.4.9

  • Added .Deprecated() wrappers to 13 legacy function names (e.g., makeBalancedPanel, rhs.vars). The old names remain fully functional but now emit deprecation warnings; removal is planned for a future version.

  • Fixed bug in rhs() where it was internally calling the deprecated rhs.vars() instead of rhs_vars(), causing spurious deprecation warnings

  • Fixed bug in panel2cs2() where outcomes could shift across unit boundaries in unbalanced panels when balance_panel = FALSE

  • Updated license from GPL-2 to GPL-3

  • Updated minimum R version from 3.1.0 to 4.1.0

  • Moved caret from Imports to Suggests; it is only required for drop_collinear() and will prompt a clear error if not installed

  • Added @importFrom data.table .N .SD in place of @import data.table to reduce namespace pollution

  • Added roxygen2 examples to many previously undocumented exported functions

  • Expanded test suite with coverage for panel utilities, distribution functions, weighted statistics, formula utilities, and Rcpp functions

BMisc 1.4.8

CRAN release: 2025-02-04

  • added function weighted_combine_list for computing weighed averages of a list of matrices or vectors

  • modernized function names to snake case, keeping older function names available as internal functions

BMisc 1.4.7

CRAN release: 2025-01-10

  • moved functions t2orig and orig2t to BMisc from pte package

  • add function drop_collinear to drop collinear columns from a matrix

  • add function get_principal_components to get unit-specific principal components of time-varying variables

  • add function time_invariant_to_panel for repeating time-invariant variables, mainly with the idea of adding them into a panel data set

  • update get_group to allow for non-binary treatments

  • add function check_staggered to check if a panel data set has staggered treatment adoption, this function can work with non-binary treatments

BMisc 1.4.6

CRAN release: 2024-03-09

  • Adds functions get_group, get_YiGmin1, and get_Yi1 as utility functions for manipulating data. This is especially useful for settings with staggered treatment adoption.

  • Add functions get_lagYi and get_first_difference as more utility functions for working with panel data.

  • Add function get_Yit which recovers outcomes in period t for all units in a panel.

  • Restore default of makeBalancedPanel to return a data.frame rather than a data.table. New function argument return_data.table allows for returning a data.table if this is the desired functionality from the user.

  • Fixes documentation NOTE in id2rownum

BMisc 1.4.5

CRAN release: 2022-07-11

  • only execute examples for subsample and blockBootSample if plm package is available (thanks Achim Zeileis)

BMisc 1.4.4

CRAN release: 2022-01-26

  • faster version of panel2cs2 (thanks Kyle Butts)

BMisc 1.4.3

CRAN release: 2021-12-09

  • added Rcpp multiplier_bootstrap function

  • added TorF function, a vectorized version of isTRUE

  • allow for additional arguments in combineDfs function

BMisc 1.4.2

CRAN release: 2020-12-18

  • changed package maintainer contact information

  • added source_all function

BMisc 1.4.1

CRAN release: 2020-04-01

  • added getElementList function

BMisc 1.4.0

  • removed dependency on plm and formula.tools

  • add function blockBootSample for block bootstrapping with panel data

  • add option in makeDist to force the values of the distribution function be between 0 and 1

BMisc 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2018-08-15

  • Update rhs.vars to fix bug related to formulas like y~x+I(x^2)

  • Update toformula to allow for no right hand side variables

BMisc 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2018-07-16

  • Added function to take distribution functions (ecdf objects) and turn them into step functions for the quantiles.

  • Improved code for working with formulas

BMisc 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2018-02-27

  • Added function for obtaining a subsample of a panel data set

BMisc 1.1.0

  • Added function addCovToFormla which adds covariate(s) to a particular formula

BMisc 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2017-06-14

  • Removed dependency on qte package