NEWS

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OpenRepGrid 0.1.18 (2025-07-08)

• saveAsExcel can export a list of grids now (#67)
• saveAsWorksheet adds a grid as a new sheet to a openxlsx Workbook object.
• makeGrid and randomGrid can add construct pole preference.
• importExcel now also understands the long format (#65) and can import from several sheets at once (#68)
• importDataframe converts a dataframe into a repgrid. Three different formats can be read in. See the sample dataframes df_element_columns, df_construct_columns, and df_long (#61)
• saveAsExcel now supports output in wide and long format. The output is also formatted now (#64)
• bertinCluster: now restores the original par() settings after changing the plot layout (#63)
• importTxt reads preferred poles from section PREFERRED, importExcel reads rightmost column preferred_poles (#57)
• preferredPoles sets the preferred construct poles, preferredPolesByIdeal sets the preferred pole bases on the ideal elements ratings, alignByPreferredPole aligns constructs by pole preference (#57)
• biplot3d: New args e.sphere.show, e.labels.show, c.axis.show. c.sphere.show. Construct spheres now hidden by default. Construct axes start at origin (#9, #25)
• print.distance: fix docs for cutoffs arg (#18)
• distanceHartmann: change default for method arg to simulate (#19)
• fix bug in align which caused constructs to disappear and subsequent bugs in bertinCluster and cluster (#22, #31)

OpenRepGrid 0.1.17 (2025-03-02)

• clusterBoot gains trim arg. Construct labels in dendrogram are no longer trimmed by default (#58).
• biplot2d: improved color options for elements and constructs. New args c.label.col.left, c.label.col.right. Args e.label.col, c.label.col, and e.point.col now vectorized.
• bertin gains the arguments col.c.left, col.c.right, col.e and col.e.lines to set the color of the construct poles, elements and element lines (#51).
• names now returns element names as alternative to elements().
• subsetting columns using elements names (boeker[, c("self", "ideal self")]) (#48)
• cbind and / to bind elements by combining the columns of the grids (#46)

OpenRepGrid 0.1.16 (2024-12-02)

• Improved documentation as required during JOSS review.

OpenRepGrid 0.1.15 (2024-07-20)

• add LICENSE.md file
• rgl installation is now optional (close #41)
• rename ward method to ward.D in cluster (fix #36)
• indexDDI and indexUncertainty, two dispersion indexes for dependency (e.g., situation-resource) grids added. Jon Raskin kindly helped with the documentation.

OpenRepGrid 0.1.14 (2023-05-16)

• remove TCLTK import. No interactive windows any more.
• move CI/CD from Travis to github actions
• resolve conflicts while loading packages
• update docs for indexPolarity
• reverse as alternative to swapPoles
• indexBieri: Bieri index of cognitive complexity
• matches: count rating matches in pairs of constructs and elements
• reorder method to invert construct and/or element order
• dilemmatic construct (indexDilemmatic)
• polarization measure (indexPolarization)
• new print option for indexIntensity
• normalize argument in distance and indexSelfConstruction
• plot method for indexDilemma to produce network graphs
• add logo to documentation
• cognitive self construction: self vs. ideal vs. others (indexSelfConstruction)
• addAvgElement to add an average element
• rep method for regrid objects creates gridlist
• summary measures for indexDilemma (PID, IID, PICID)
• midpoint function (alias for getScaleMidpoint)
• print method for indexDilemma
• fix indexDilemma output bug (#17, thanks to José Antonio González Del Puerto aka @MindCartographer)
• perturbation of grid ratings by perturbate and grids_perturbate
• indexPvaff now uses PCA of construct centered raw data in line with biplot (and Gridcor)
• allow blanks at end of line after tags in importTxt
• grids_leave_n_out and grids_bootstrap for resampling constructs
• gridlist class, a simple list of repgrid objects

OpenRepGrid 0.1.13

• indexDilemma was improved and fixed (thanks to Diego Vitali aka @artoo-git)
• biplot2d does now hide construct points as default setting (cex=0)
• setting a rating value outside the defined scale range now throws an error
• 'ratings' to access and replace grid ratings added
• 'elements' added to get and set element names replaces 'getElementNames' and 'eNames' which have become deprecated.
• 'constructs', 'leftpoles', and 'rightpoles' added to get and set construct poles replace 'getConstructNames' and 'cNames' which have become deprecated.

OpenRepGrid 0.1.11

• saveAsExcel to save grids as Microsoft Excel files
• replace xlsx by openxlsx to import Excel files to get rid of JRE dependency

OpenRepGrid 0.1.10 (2017-02-24)

• indexDilemma: improved implicative dilemmas (thanks to Alejandro García, (#24, @j4n7)
• changelog file as place for documenting changes removed. All changes now in NEWS

OpenRepGrid 0.1.9 (2014-09-07)

• align parameter added to cluster
• importTxt will now erase empty lines
• changed default settings for implicative dilemmas
• dependency on xlsx removed (issue #15)

OpenRepGrid 0.1.8 (2013-06-14)

• importGridstat can now import multigrid files
• bug fix in importTxt: negative values are read in again

OpenRepGrid 0.1.7 (2013-05-26)

• print functions for most grid indexes added, former output argument no longer exists
• settings function added. Settings can now be modified, saved and loaded
• clusterBoot function for p-values in cluster analysis
• functions by topic overview documentation
• bindConstructs can now take many grids and/or lists of grids as arguments. Element names are now matched and reordered automatically
• '+' can now be used to concatenated two grids or list of grids
• importExcel function added
• importTxt: ratings and range can now have an arbitrary number of blanks or tabs between the values. The characters - (minus) and ? (question mark) are read in as missing values (NA). The file extensions .TXT (capitals) is now recognized
• clusterBoot added:implementation of pvclust functions

OpenRepGrid 0.1.6 (2012-04-05)

• biplot functions fixed. They work again.

OpenRepGrid 0.1.5 (2011-07-23)

• First release version available on CRAN.
• method dim to return size of a grid. A simple wrapper around getNoOfConstructs and getNoOfElements
• package description updated
• prob argument in distanceXXX functions added
• bug in makeRepgrid corrected: ratings now read by row

OpenRepGrid 0.1.4

• demo added
• bug corrected in importScivesco
• changed package description
• prob parameter: randomGrid(s), quasiDistributionDistanceSlater (dev)
• distanceNormalized

OpenRepGrid 0.1.3

• permuteConstructs (dev)
• update openrepgrid-internal
• permuteGrid (dev)
• update zzz
• corrected COLLATION order

OpenRepGrid 0.1.2

• polishing of console output for several functions:
• constructCor
• elementCor
• statsConstructs
• statsElements
• distance
• alignByLoadings
• some others might have been changed (undocumented)

OpenRepGrid 0.1.1

New Features

• indexConflict1: unbalanced triads (Slade & Sheehan)
• indexConflict2: unbalanced triads (Bassler et al.)
• indexConflict3: triangle inequalities
• indexDilemma: detect implicative dilemmas
• data leach2001a and leach2001b

Internal changes

• getConstructNames2
• getElementNames2
• formatMatrix

OpenRepGrid 0.1.0

New Features

• Slater distance
• Hartmann distance

OpenRepGrid 0.0.9

New Features

• zoom argument in biplots
• variance explained options in biplots
• color controls in biplots for points and labels
• no overplotting with high zoom values
• PVAFF index
• frames for biplot3d
• intensity index

OpenRepGrid 0.0.8

New Features

• construct lines in drawBiplot2d
• saveAsTxt
• new examples added

OpenRepGrid 0.0.7

New Features

• updated documentation files
• changes in addVarianceExplainedToBiplot2d
• alignByIdeal

OpenRepGrid 0.0.6

New Features

• biplot3d (new version)
• biplotEsa2d
• biplotEsa3d
• biplotSlater2d
• biplotSlater3d
• home

OpenRepGrid 0.0.5

New Features

• center
• normalize

OpenRepGrid 0.0.4

New Features

• not documented

OpenRepGrid 0.0.3

New Features:

• distance
• importGridsuite
• importScivesco
• importGridstat
• importGridcor
• importTxt
• constructSomers i.e. Somers' d
• getRatingLayers (internal function)
• cluster (for constructs)
• data feixas2004
• data fbb2003
• constructRmsCor
• constructPca

OpenRepGrid 0.0.2

• Several new Features

OpenRepGrid 0.0.1

• First version (2010-12-03)