NEWS

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psHarmonize 0.3.6 (2025-10-16)

• Added more informative error message when duplicate rows are present in harmonization sheet.
• Added contributors to DESCRIPTION file.

psHarmonize 0.3.5 (2025-01-15)

• Removed unnecessary spaces in DESCRIPTION file.
• Added verbose argument to harmonization() and create_long_dataset() functions.

psHarmonize 0.3.4

• Changed title in description file to title case.
• Added data harmonization references in description file.

psHarmonize 0.3.3

• Fixed notes and warnings in check() in preparation for submission to CRAN.
• Added rendered .Rmd readme.
• Added .data prefix in dplyr functions where appropriate.

psHarmonize 0.3.2

• Fixed issue that prevented some numeric harmonized values from plotting.

psHarmonize 0.3.1

• Added code to recognize incorrectly entered id_var in harmonization sheet. The cohort shell function will not use the corresponding dataset. Harmonization will skip this row in the harmonization sheet, and record reason in error log.

• Added documentation for multiple R functions (mainly return values and examples).

• Added NA values for possible_range when not specified in harmonization sheet. Previously, an error occured when possible_range was absent.

psHarmonize 0.3.0

• Added S3 summary method for psHarmonize return object object.

psHarmonize 0.2.9

• Fix bug in categorical possible_range function.
• Added additional test for categorical possible_range function.

psHarmonize 0.2.8

• Added feature that allows user to define the set of possible categorical values.
• This is done by listing possible values in possible_range column in harmonization sheet.
• A user could enter "a, b, c, d" in the possible_range column if they wanted any other harmonized values (other than "a, b, c, d") set to NA.

psHarmonize 0.2.7

• Added additional RMarkdown files for comparison reports, when multiple input variables are used.

psHarmonize 0.2.6

• Fixed errors that occurred with some using create_summary_report() .

psHarmonize 0.2.5

• Fixed error when using create_error_log_report().

psHarmonize 0.2.4

• Merged in pull request #1, that fixed error when source dataset was not present.

psHarmonize 0.2.3

• Added warning message

psHarmonize 0.2.2

• Added reorder_factors() function
• Fixed graph issue in create_summary_report(). Categorical variables with many values were not being plotted.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.