NEWS

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NlsyLinks 2.2.1 (2023-09-22)

Updates:

• Minor updates to revive package

NlsyLinks 2.2.0

Updates:

• pkgdown documentation
• Incorporate more Nlsy97 info
• Rename dataset SurveyDate to Survey79.
• In Survey79, expose only one age variable to save space to stay under CRAN's size limit.

NlsyLinks 2.0.5

Updates:

• Small updates to meet new testthat version.

NlsyLinks 2.0.1 (2015-08-18)

Updates:

• SurveyDate dataset contains survey details for each subject, for each year.
• Small updates to meet newer CRAN guidelines.

NlsyLinks 1.4005

Updates:

• Small updates to vignettes and documentation.
• Small updates to meet newer CRAN guidelines about title & description format.
• Checked with R Tools 3.2.

NlsyLinks 1.300 (2013-11-27)

New Features:

• A more complete version of the Gen1 links are included. 95% of all Gen1 Housemates have been linked.

Updates:

• R now has missing values for Gen1 pairs if the 1979 roster (eg, R00001.51) doesn't indicate they're the same generation. If this value is desirable for your research, their R values are still available in RFull.
• The naming scheme for the Links79Pair and Links79PairExpanded datasets are more consistent across variables. For variables that are measured separately for both subjects (eg, Gender), the subjects' variable name will have an _S1 or _S2 appended to it. For instance, the variables LastSurvey_S1 and LastSurvey_S2 correspond to the last surveys completed by the pair's first and second subject, respectively.
• Similarly, the functions CreatePairLinksDoubleEntered and CreatePairLinksSingleEntered now by default append _S1 and _S2, instead of _1 and _2. However this can be modified using the subject1Qualifier and subject2Qualifier parameters.
• Added function ReadCsvNlsy79Gen1()
• Updated reference manual, ACE vignette, and FAQ.

NlsyLinks 1.200 (2012-12-19)

Updates:

• Renamed R to RFull. RFull contains all the R values we have. R excludes R values in Gen1Housemates if they're 0, .375, or .75. The associated relationships (ie, Gen2Cousins and AuntNieces) become null for R, but not for RFull.

NlsyLinks 1.017

Updates:

• Removed code that assigned all unassigned siblings to .375. This doesn't make sense for Gen1, and was mostly an internal experiment (and wasn't released on CRAN).

NlsyLinks 1.015

Updates:

• Added outcome variables for Gen1. Renamed some outcome variables for Gen2.

NlsyLinks 1.014

Updates:

• Based on geocode variables, five Gen1 ambiguous twin was demoted to R=0 (two were R=.5; three were R=NULL).

NlsyLinks 1.013

Updates:

• Rebuilt For R2.15.2 with with RTools216.exe.

NlsyLinks 1.012

Updates:

• Small documentation updates

NlsyLinks 1.011

Updates:

• Gen1 Links are more thorough (but still in a beta state)
• Gen1 and Gen2 information uses the NLSY 2010 survey wave (released this Spring 2012)

NlsyLinks 1.010

• Refreshing after development interrupt to make sure everything builds and tests correctly

NlsyLinks 1.007

Updates:

• Added material to appendices of the NlsyAce vignette.
• Removed 'stringr' package from Depends list. It's no longer used creating lavaan syntax.

NlsyLinks 1.004

New Features:

• Added ParentChild links.
• Added Gen1 links (using only Explicit items). There will be much more work to these relationship in the next few months.
• Added Gen2Cousins & AuntNieces. These will change as the Gen1 links are filled out with implicit information.

NlsyLinks 1.003 (2012-05-21)

Updates:

• Additional Documentation.

NlsyLinks 1.001

Updates:

• Started a FAQ (as a vignette).

NlsyLinks 1.0 (2012-04-27)

Updates:

• Additional documentation and unit tests.
• Changed R-Forge development status from "Beta" to "Production/Stable"

NlsyLinks 0.29

Updates:

• Modified some function signatures to be make package more consistent.
• Additional lavaan example in ACE vignette.

NlsyLinks 0.26

New Features:

• The new function 'AceLavaanGroup' uses the 'lavaan' package to estimate a multigroup SEM ACE model.

NlsyLinks 0.24

New Features:

• The S4 class 'AceEstimate' is returned by the 'Ace' function.
• Methods & functions associated with the AceEstimate class.
• SubjectDetails79 dataset for Gen2.
• ReadCsvNlsy79 function.
• Validation functions: (a) OutcomeDataset
• Column Utilities: (a) VerifyColumnExists, (c) RenameNlsyColumn

NlsyLinks 0.19 (2012-03-10)

New Features:

• NLS Investigator vignette
• ACE vignette
• Generalized AceUnivariate function that wraps DeFriesFulkerMethod1 and DeFriesFulkerMethod3.
• ExtraOutcomes79 dataset
• Links79PairExpanded dataset
• Validation functions: (a) OutcomeDataset, (b) PairLinks, (c) PairLinksAreSymmetric
• Create functions for (a) SpatialNeighbours, (b) PairLinks, (c) SubjectTag

NlsyLinks 0.10 (2012-01-16)

• Initial submission to CRAN
• Contains Nlsy79 Gen2 sibling links

GitHub Commits and Releases

• For a detailed change log, please see https://github.com/nlsy-links/NlsyLinks/commits/master.
• For a list of the major releases, please see https://github.com/nlsy-links/NlsyLinks/releases.