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scaledescr 0.2.7

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.

make_lavaan_analysis_tables() — Fits a lavaan model and returns a list containing the regression coefficients table and the global model fit indices.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

make_dataframe_to_output() - fixed to handle CSV, Word, and Excel exports properly.
Updated format argument: "docs" replaced with "word" for Word output.