CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 1.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• added support for reading compressed system files.

MAJOR CHANGES

Bug fixes

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 1.2.0

NEW FEATURES

• added support for reading “mini” system file.

MAJOR CHANGES

Bug fixes

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 1.1.1

NEW FEATURES

• added support for plotting item characteristics curves, see e.g., plotCCC

MAJOR CHANGES

• Bug fixes

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 1.0.0

NEW FEATURES

• added support for producing and plotting model expected curves related to items and tests, see e.g., plotModelICC
• added support for extracting item parameters, variances, fits, labels in getCqRespModel

MAJOR CHANGES

• functions that deal with items scores are more general and apply to any model that scores categories including those that do not assume integer scoring.

Bug fixes

• many.

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 0.9.4

NEW FEATURES

• added support for producing and plotting test information functions

MAJOR CHANGES

• ConQuestCall now will call “cmd.exe” via system2 on Windows. This is morre consistent with behaviour on Mac.

Bug fixes

• compiled (win binary) version previously could cause error when using ConQuestCall with paths with spaces. Fixed.

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 0.9.1

NEW FEATURES

• added support for analysing standardised residuals as per DOI: 10.1177/0013164410379322

MAJOR CHANGES

• ConQuestCall now will try and find the ConQuest executable rather than requiring explicit declaration

Bug fixes

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 0.8.5

NEW FEATURES

• added support for ACER ConQuest system files from BTL/pairwise models
• added generic S3 function, plotRout to support plotting rout obejcts

MAJOR CHANGES

• conquestr now requires ACER ConQuest > 5.12.3
• plotRout has methods for ICC and for Infomap objects.

Bug fixes

• fix in getCqHist: matrix was previously the transpose of history (truncated where n iter > n params and vice-versa), now corrected.

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• added support for ACER ConQuest system files from MCMC models (estimate ! method = patz…)
• added searchConQuestSys to help users search names in system file objects

MAJOR CHANGES

• conquestr now requires ACER ConQuest > 4.34.0
• replaceInDataFrame replaces zapSystemMissing in calls to createDfFromSys - this uses Rccp in place of base R and is approx 25 times faster making this function usable for large analyses.

CHANGES IN conquestr VERSION 0.3.7

NEW FEATURES

• Initial CRAN release.