NEWS
scaledescr 0.2.7
Improvements
New Functions
make_lavaan_mediation_tables() — Fits a lavaan mediation model with one or more mediators and optionally allows covariances between IVs, mediators, and DVs. Returns direct effects, indirect effects, total effects, correlations, and fit indices.
scaledescr 0.2.6 (2026-04-25)
Improvements
- Added updated NEWS.md to track change in the package
- Added README.md for workflow
- Citation corrected.
New Functions
make_lavaan_analysis_tables() — Fits a lavaan model and returns a list containing the regression coefficients table and the global model fit indices.
scaledescr 0.2.5 (2026-04-18)
Improvements
- Added updated NEWS.md to track change in the package
- Added README.md for workflow
- Citation corrected.
New Functions
make_normality_table() — Tests distributional normality for numeric variables and returns a formatted table of test statistics and p-values.
make_EFA_factorability_table() — make a single row table of KMO and Bartlett's test of sphericity to assess dataset suitability for exploratory factor analysis.
make_citation_to_output() — Extracts and exports formatted citations (text and BibTeX) for all or selected session packages to a file in word, excel, csv or pdf,with suggestion to use word rather than pdf due to difficulty in text wrapping in pdf.
make_correlation_table() — make a table of pairwise correlations with significance indicators and returns a publication-ready table.
scaledescr 0.2.4 (2026-04-11)
Improvements
- Added PDF export support to
make_dataframe_to_output() using the flextable engine.
make_alpha_table(): The function only return only scale name, number of items (N), and alpha value.
- Improved internal file extension handling using
switch logic for better scalability.
- Updated documentation to clarify dependencies for PDF and Word exports.
scaledescr 0.2.3 (2026-03-21)
Improvements
make_scale_description_table(): now accepts multiple columns at once to generate a single descriptive table,and Accepts either a numeric vector (single column) or a data frame with column names.
make_alpha_table(): users are warned that extraction of CI values may be unreliable across psych::alpha versions. Future versions will return only scale name, number of items (N), and alpha value.
make_chisq_test_table():now accept list of chi square test and return single frame with rows of all chi square test result extracted.
New Functions
make_alphanumeric_conversion() - Converts specified columns between alphabetical (text) and numeric values. Can either overwrite existing columns or create new ones.\
make_scale_total() - Converts specified columns between alphabetical (text) and numeric values.Can either overwrite existing columns or create new ones.\
make_reverse_score() - Create Reverse Scores as New Columns.\
compute_ICC() - Create Reverse Scores as New Columns.\
make_one_sample_t_test_table() - create a single row table of one sample t test result from htest object calculated using t.test(). it can accept list of htest object at once as well.
scaledescr 0.2.2 (2026-03-13)
Improvements
make_dataframe_to_output(): now trims whitespace and standardizes case in character variables so that values such as "student", " Student ", and "STUDENT" are treated as the same category.
New Export Functions
make_demographic_table_to_output() - Generates a demographic summary table using make_demographic_table() and exports the resulting table to Word, Excel, or CSV format.
scaledescr 0.2.1 (2026-03-06)
Improvements
make_dataframe_to_output() - fixed to handle CSV, Word, and Excel exports properly.
- Updated format argument:
"docs" replaced with "word" for Word output.
scaledescr 0.2.0 (2026-02-11)
New Functions
make_chisq_test_table()
make_independent_t_test_table()
scaledescr 0.1.3 (2026-02-08)
- Initial CRAN release of the package
- number of function-5
List of functions
make_alpha_table()
make_dataframe_to_output()
make_demographic_table()
make_paired_t_test_table()
make_scale_description_table()