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Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

DescToolsX 0.0.0.945

New features

  • Descriptive layer of the DescToolsX package suite and redesigned successor to DescTools: frequency and contingency tables, measures of location, dispersion, shape and concentration, association and agreement coefficients, effect sizes, and classifier metrics.
  • desc() is a single generic dispatching on the type of the input, so vectors, factors, dates, variable pairs, tables and whole data frames are described through one entry point.
  • Common interfaces Association() and Agreement() collect the respective families of coefficients behind one call.
  • Performance-critical routines are implemented in C++ via Rcpp, RcppArmadillo and RcppParallel.

Changes from DescTools

  • Consistent lowerCamelCase naming throughout; function names, argument names and argument order follow the design rules of the suite.
  • Base utilities, graphics and inferential procedures have moved into the separate packages bedrock, pharos and lumen; DescToolsX now depends on them instead of carrying its own copies.

Acknowledgements

Parts of the code and documentation were reviewed with the help of large language models (OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude). Every suggestion was assessed, edited and verified by the maintainer, who remains solely responsible for the content of this package.