superb 1.0.1 (November 30th, 2025)

• Regular maintenance after issue of R 4.5
• Eliminated package lawStat which no longer exists
• Adapted to modifications in ggplot2 packages >= 4.0.0

superb 1.0.0 (August 13,2025)

• Codename: 100% confident;
• Celebrating the fourth anniversary of superb!
• Corrected small bug for 4-factor designs within superb();
• Added a check that long-format within-subject datasets have a single score per cell;
• Additional argument validations (strings for statistic, errorbar, plotLayout);
• Corrected minor typos in documentations.

superb 0.95.99 (May 2025)

• Added an option to superbShiny() to preload graphic directives.

superb 0.95.23 (January 17th, 2025)

• Codename: living dangerously;
• Corrected a minor bug when performing Bartlett test;
• EXPERIMENTAL: Made allowance to accept namespace::function to the statistics functions. Useful if the function may be masked by other packages declaring functions with the same name;
• Updated options so that EXPERIMENTAL messages can be inhibited;
• Added range(low, high) to the GRD()’s Instrument specification;
• Made “line” the default plotLayout instead of “bar”;
• Deprecated plotStyle in favor of plotLayout.

superb 0.95.22 (December 30th, 2024)

• Minor bug to superbToWide(): if a missing subject was the first of a group, that was converting to long poorly with reshape();
• Modified GRD() to generate within-subject factors with the first factor cycling more rapidly. This is consistent with dcast() and other long-to-wide functions.

superb 0.95.21 (December 4th, 2024)

• Made superb() determine automatically the WSDesign in case the design is not full factorial and the data are long;
• Corrected a bug for mixed designs with long format;
• Upgraded option colorize in “lineindividualplot” layout;
• Added a check in GRD() to validate that effects bears on legitimate factors.

superb 0.95.20 (November 26th, 2024)

• Added one validation to GRD() to exclude DV same as IV;
• Added Instrument to GRD() to handle instrument-specific impacts on the generated scores (for example, the instrument may have only a limited precision).

superb 0.95.19 (October 31st, 2024)

• Codename: Spooky;
• Remove deprecated arguments in ggplot2 >=3.5.0;
• Added circular layouts for radar plots with error bars;
• Cleaned a bit the documentation;
• Upgraded a bit the ReadMe page;
• Caught a bug in GRD() when more than 9 levels where used on an effect;
• Cleaned a bit the geom_superberrorbar() and added the possibility to have two distinct colors in the vertical part of the error bar.

superb 0.95.18 (October 15th, 2024)

• Corrected a bug with geom_superberrorbar().

superb 0.95.17 (September 31th, 2024)

• Added superb(), a formula-based function;
• Modified separator from ’_’ to ‘.’ in superbToWide().

superb 0.95.16 (September 13th, 2024)

• Added a new plot layout: the corset plot “corset”;
• Corrected a bug in the superbShiny() graphical interface with “corset”.

superb 0.95.15 (August 18th, 2024)

• Added the “antagonize” (boolean) option to violin plots.

superb 0.95.14 (August 11th, 2024)

• Updated the use of & vs. && according to new R credo;
• Corrected a bug related to LD adjustment in mixed designs.

superb 0.95.13 (August 3rd, 2024)

• Modified violin plots so that half-violins can be displayed;
• The violinParams now includes:
  • direction (+1= left-half; -1=right-half; 0=symmetrical);
  • push (to translate half away from the medial line);
  • with these modifications, corset plots can be made easily by superimposing a violin plot with halves and individualline plot.

superb 0.95.12 (May 30th, 2024)

• Revise FYI message for un-balanced between-group designs;
• Corrected a small bug for un-balanced within-subject designs;
• Added a check for correlations on data without variance.

superb 0.95.11 (May 7th, 2024)

• Added local decorrelation with option “LDr” where r is the radius;
• Small correction to lineBand without between-subject factors.

superb 0.95.10 (March 9th, 2024)

• Regular maintenance.

superb 0.95.9 (February 8th, 2024)

• Added a new plot layout, boxplot, to display box plots;
• Adjusted testthat tests following new release of ggplot2;
• Added unitaryAlpha technique to compute average correlation;
• Simplified documentation for within-subject designs.

superb 0.95.83 (November 11th, 2023)

• Made a message shown based on option.

superb 0.95.82 (August 19th, 2023)

• Corrected labeling of factors.

superb 0.95.81 (August 13th, 2023)

• Updated CustomizingSuperbPlots vignettes.

superb 0.95.8 (June 13th, 2023)

• Added superbToWide() to ease the conversion to wide format
• A few tiny corrections to the documentation
• Updated references
• Note that updates are spaced more and more as the library is now very stable.

superb 0.95.7 (January 19th, 2023)

• Added pairwise deletion for the computation of the mean correlation in case of missing data with CA;
• Removed ggplot2 depleted functions “aes_string” in favor of “aes”;
• Removed ggplot2 depleted attribute “size” in favor of “linewidth”;
• Added the lineBand plot in the Shiny interface.

superb 0.95.6 (December 24th, 2022)

• Added documentation related to plotting frequencies;
• Harmonized a bit the other vignettes’ format;
• Updated version in shinyapps.io.

superb 0.95.5 (November 18th, 2022)

• Tweaked column selection so that the variable argument can be given columns names in different order than the order in the dataframe.

superb 0.95.4 (September 9th, 2022)

• tweaked “pointing” so that for error bars not lying on both side of the central tendency, the line does not pass throught the central tendency.

superb 0.95.3 (July 9th, 2022)

• Updated documentation.

superb 0.95.2 (July 9th, 2022)

• Added an option “pointing” to error bars so that they can be pointing; “up”, “down” or go in “both” directions (default).

superb 0.95.1 (May 12th, 2022)

• Corrected the bug from 0.9.7.9 (kept bugging me!);
• Reduced image resolution in vignettes.

superb 0.95.0 (May 10th, 2022)

• Added a new layout to display precision using a band rather than error bars;
• changed numbering of versions to two-digits version code.

superb 0.9.7.9 (January 15th, 2022)

• Corrected a problem in the order of the conditions when more then 10 were present.

superb 0.9.7.8 (December 10th, 2021)

• Corrected a few typos;
• The population size in superbShiny() was limited to 99,999. Corrected.

superb 0.9.7.7 (November 19th, 2021)

• Added a vignette for superb with SPSS;
• Corrected superbShiny() to show the doi and remove graphic directives;
• Updated the shinyapps.io version to match this version.

superb 0.9.7.6 (November 4th, 2021)

• Corrected one bug regarding variables with similar names;
• Integrated tibble data format into superb;
• Some output were missing in VignetteC and a backtick missing in VignetteA.

superb 0.9.7.5 (June 23rd, 2021)

• Codename: “two-tail 95% confident”
• Official release on CRAN of superb with the graphical user interface superbShiny();
• Small changes to vignette TheMakingOf.

superb 0.9.7.4 (June 18th, 2021)

• Beta release of superbShiny(), a graphical user interface to facilitate the use of superbPlot.

superb 0.9.7.0 (May 28th, 2021)

• Added a vignette on how to implement Reference Intervals (RI) into superb;
• Implemented makeTransparent() to ease the creation of plots with multiple error bars;
• Added a distinct vertical color, vcolor, to the geom_superberrorbar();
• Added an argument “WSDesign” (default = “fullfactorial”) when the within-subject factors are not full-factorial;
• Added a vignette on how to plot non-full factorial datasets.

superb 0.9.6.0 (April 30th, 2021)

• Integrated an example of robust statistic in Vignette/Article 4: the 20% trimmed mean and its confidence interval;
• Added showSignificance() to annotate group differences;
• Added a note when missing data are in the dataframe;
• Added automatic handling of initializers (see Vignette/Article 9 for an example);
• Added a vignette dedicated to how to illustrate Cohen’s d;
• Added a geom_superberrorbar() with additional options for the tip markers;
• … all this on its way to the next release version 0.9.7.5.
• Stay tune as the best is still to come (and it is shiny!)

superb 0.9.5.0 (April 13th, 2021)

• Second release on CRAN, codename “95% confident”;
• Expanded documentation once more.

superb 0.9.4.7 (April 10th, 2021)

• Added two vignettes.

superb 0.9.4.6 (April 7th, 2021)

• Problem with CAPITAL grd corrected;
• Rounded the numbers in the messages to 4 decimals (that should be more than enough!);
• All the message/warnings/stop generated by suberb are now prefixed with “superb::”;
• Added function WelchDegreeOfFreedom();
• Added a message that indicate tryon adjustment value;
• Added a vignette on Welch, Tryon & superb.

superb 0.9.4.5 (April 1st, 2021)

• Implemented the raincloud plots;
• Converted messages from warning() to message().

superb 0.9.4.4 (March 2021)

• Expanded function names lambda, epsilon;
• Made built-in bootstrap estimators for SE and PI;
• Renamed option “debug” into “feedback”;
• Changed debug information for GRD();
• Converted in GRD the level ranges, e.g., “diff(1,5)”, into numeric levels.

superb 0.9.4.3 (March 2021)

• Added superbData() as a shortcut to superbPlot(... showPlot = FALSE);
• Changed debug information for superbPlot() and superbData();
• Created a logo and improved web pages;
• Revised documentation.

superb 0.9.4.2 (March 2021)

• Initial release of the R version on CRAN;
• Added optional argument facetParams to the plotting functions;
• Made the plot function customizable;
• Wrote vignettes.

superb 0.9.4.0 (September 2020)

• Beta release of the package superb on GitHub;
• MeanPlot renamed to superb (SUmmary Plot with ERror Bars);
• Added pre and post-processing operators;
• Packaged together GRD and MeanPlot;
• Transcoded MeanPlot from Mathematica to R.

superb 0.0.5.0 (January 2019)

• Initial release of GRD() 2.0 for the R platform.

superb 0.0.4.0 (March 2017)

• Last stable version maintained on Mathematica; Cousineau (2017) doi: 10.5709/acp-0214-z;
• Updated legend manipulation following the release of Mathematica 9.0.

superb 0.0.3.0 (October 2015)

• Release of GRD 2.0 for SPSS.

superb 0.0.2.0 (July 2014)

• Release of GRD 1.0 for SPSS.

superb 0.0.1.0 (and prior; 2009-2015)

• Development versions of MeanPlot on the Mathematica framework;
• Added “popSize” and “CRS” from Cousineau & Laurencelle (2016) doi: 10.1037/met0000055;
• Grouped the various adjustments into an “adjustments” list;
• Added “LM” decorrelation method.