Metacore 0.3.0

One of the primary goals of these updates is to make the package less “noisy”, reducing the number of messages and warnings produced by the package and providing users more options for controlling them.

• verbose argument added to metacore, spec_to_metacore, define_to_metacore, and select_dataset to expand the user’s ability to selectively suppress messages and warnings #135. Permits the options:
  • silent: Suppresses both messages and warnings.
  • collapse: Warnings are collapsed into a single message that indicates the number of warnings suppressed.
  • warn: Warnings are permitted but messages are suppressed.
  • message: Both warnings and messages are permitted.
• quiet argument in metacore, spec_to_metacore, define_to_metacore, and select_dataset functions soft deprecated in favour of verbose. Default functionality of quiet = TRUE now achieves the same result as verbose = "silent" to suppress optional messages, notes and warnings #126.
• keep variable in ds_vars table has been changed to mandatory to better reflect the CDISC standard terminology. In the function metacore the input for the supplied column keep is still available but a deprecation warning has been attached to its usage. Users supplying keep will not encounter an error as this has been mapped to the new column mandatory. #128.
• Cleaned up some of the validation procedures for supp columns. Validation of the supp table is now only performed if it contains greater than zero rows to reduce the number of warnings produced when reading in specs. #144.
• Various functions have had the appearence and UX of their error messages improved to provide additional context and guidance for the users.

Metacore 0.2.1

• Hotfix import cli_alert_info issue from {cli} package.

Metacore 0.2.0

• select_dataset() now creates a subsetted metacore object that is a subclass of Metacore called DatasetMeta.
• Objects of DatasetMeta subclass will be expected as input to {metatools} functions going forward.
• Print statement updated for both combined Metacore and subsetted DatasetMeta objects. This should be more informative and highlight the difference between the two object types (i.e., all datasets vs. single dataset).
• Errors and warning messages improved throughout.
• Bugfix issue in value_spec creation caused by VLM #108

Metacore 0.1.3

• Add get_keys function which returns the dataset keys for a given dataset #102
• Fix issues with select_dataset(simplify = TRUE) #97

Metacore 0.1.2

• Update to resolve issues from the dplyr updates

Metacore 0.1.1

• Add variable cross checks to check consistent use of label, type, and format
• Add is_metacore() function to check if it is a metacore object
• #64 Resolve issue so define and spec readers work when value levels are empty

Metacore 0.1.0

• Updates for latest version of {tidyselect}
• Move from XML to xml2 for define.xml processing
• Correct issue with warning on ds_var$core
• Correct bug with not reading the derivation of predecessor and assigned variables correctly

Metacore 0.0.6

• Correct typos
• Limits origin value/make all origins lower case

Metacore 0.0.5

• #47 Improve yn_to_tf() to be more robust in parsing yes/no columns

Metacore 0.0.4

• Adds a supp table to store the idvar and qeval information
• Adds sig_digcolumn to the value_spec table

Metacore 0.0.3

• Fixes bugs found in the get_control_term function and improves error messages for get_control_term
• Improves internal naming consistency by renaming define_to_MetaCore to define_to_metacore
• Adds quiet option to readers, to allow users to optionally ignore the reader warnings
• Creates new example metacore object that is an .rda so much faster to read in
• Fixes issue with select dataset when variables are duplicated

Metacore 0.0.1

This fixes the following issues:

• #16 the metacore function now accepts any empty datasets and creates an empty dataset with the correct column names and types
• #10 yn function checks for logicals and returns them
• #11 updated function description to make this clearer
• #12 updated regex so to “[F|f]ormat” so it can accept lower case
• #14 added supp_flag to ds_vars (on a side note we did a really good job with this it was super easy to change and only required a few edits)
• #15 modified create_tbl so if there are two potential matches in the same dataset and one is an exact match it uses that

Additionally, it adds the get_control_term function to get pull out the control term for a given variable.