PsychoMatic 0.3.0

CRAN-Readiness

• Updated DESCRIPTION with a more informative title, description, DOI-backed methodological references, maintainer metadata, VignetteBuilder, and LazyData.
• Reduced strong dependencies by moving report-only and workflow-specific packages to Suggests and loading them conditionally.
• Regenerated English-facing manual pages for exported functions.
• Replaced the old NEWS file with NEWS.md.
• Added lightweight vignettes for EFA, CFA, measurement invariance, and alignment invariance.
• Added small bundled datasets for reproducible examples: psychomatic_continuous, psychomatic_ordinal, and psychomatic_multigroup.
• Ensured examples, tests, and report exports use temporary files where appropriate.

New Functions

• Added screen_items() for item-quality screening.
• Added reverse_items() for reverse scoring with explicit or detected items.
• Added score_scale() for mean/sum scale scores with minimum valid-response rules and optional person-mean imputation.
• Added psychomatic_report() for integrated Excel or Word reports.
• Added irt_auto() for basic Rasch, 2PL, and graded response IRT workflows, including item-level interpretation, an overall model summary, and APA 7 methodological references.
• Added dif_auto() for lightweight logistic DIF screening by group, with item-level interpretation, an overall DIF summary, and APA 7 methodological references.
• Added compare_models_auto() for comparing alternative CFA models with fit-index-based recommendations and support for WLSMV-style scaled indices.

Object Structure And Summaries

• Added summary() methods for efa_auto, cfa_auto, and factorial_invariance_auto.
• Added more predictable structured tables to EFA, CFA, and invariance result objects.
• Preserved bilingual output support through language = "esp" and language = "eng" while keeping the main documentation in English.
• Aligned export_efa() with psychomatic_report() so EFA exports use the same structured reporting path as the rest of the package.

Refactoring

• Split large EFA and CFA files into focused helpers, methods, exports, and summary utilities.
• Kept legacy Spanish aliases for backward compatibility, but documented the English argument names as the recommended interface.

Testing

• Expanded tests for item screening, reverse scoring, scale scoring, report export, IRT, DIF, CFA model comparison, datasets, summaries, and error paths.
• Verified the release candidate with R CMD check --as-cran.

PsychoMatic 0.2.0

New Features

• Added inter-item correlation matrices with Pearson, polychoric, and tetrachoric options.
• Added Excel export for correlation matrices.

Fixes

• Fixed the label for confidence intervals in corrected factor loadings.