Courtesy of R 3.4 being released last Friday, I’ve been on a package updating spree. The first package to receive such treatment is actual the first R package I ever wrote: visualize
. Back in the day, before RStudio really was prevalent and devtools
was as feature rich as it is today, I learned how to build packages with the good ol’ Terminal using R CMD build
and R CMD check
. I ended up writing up how I built the package sometime around July 2013 in a post titled “Updating the Visualize R package” but have since lost it while transition platforms. Nowadays, part of the post lives on in infamy in the [R-SIG-Mac] hidden files and directories thread. Heh, I’ve reminisced a bit too much.
The objective of visualize
is to create a distribution with given parameters and then show the probability associated with a test statistic. The package provides visualization support for all distributions that ship with R in convenient wrapper functions visualize.*()
. As I was still a youngin, the plotting library used is base R. If you’re interested in contributing to a newer version of visualize
that allows for multiple distributions to be added to a plot let’s chat.
visualize
news file entry for version 4.3.0 (2017-04-27)
CHANGES
- Switched
visualize.distribution
from being made on library load to being an internal data set stored insysdata.rda
with build files stored indata-raw
(#1) - Switched documentation from Rd over to
roxygen2
usingRd2roxygen
(#2)
MINOR CHANGES
- Switched
NEWS
toNEWS.md
to take advantage of Markdown formatting. (#5) - Switched
README
to useREADME.Rmd
, which generatesREADME.md
. (#4) - Added links to GitHub repository in
DESCRIPTION
file
BUG FIX
- Corrected outstanding CRAN checks related to malformed
DESCRIPTION
file and need to import functions (#3)