Maintenance Release
This is a maintenance release primarily intended to continue support for SPSS, Stata, and SAS files after the update of haven to v1.0.0. The issues addressed since last release are:
New features
- Added support for importing from multi-table HTML files using the
whichargument. (#126) - Update import and export methods to use new xml2 for XML and HTML export. (#86)
- Added support for export of .sas7bdat files via haven (#116)
- Restored support for import from SPSS portable via haven (#116)
- Improved behavior of
import()andexport()with respect to unrecognized file types. (#124, #125, h/t Jason Becker) - Attempt to recognize compressed but non-archived file formats (e.g., ".csv.gz"). (#123, h/t trevorld)
Minor notes
- Added explicit tests of the S3 extension mechanism for
.import()and.export(). - Fix failing tests related to stricter variable name handling for Stata files in development version of haven. (#113, h/t Hadley Wickham)
- Updated import methods to reflect changed formal argument names in haven. (#116)
- Converted to roxygen2 documentation and made NEWS an explicit markdown file.