Change of package rankinma

rankinma 0.2.2

Date: April 01, 2024

Modify document: improve rankinma package manual by adding parameter rob in function GetMetrics().

Modify document: improve rankinma package manual by adding parameter whichRoB in function GetMetrics().

Modify document: improve rankinma package Vignette to show beading plot with equidistant by ranks and non-equidistant by global metrics.

Update to CRAN

Date: March 23, 2024

Modify function: improve function GetMetrics() by introducing a new parameter, rob, which enables users to designate a vector of risk of bias for each study.

Modify function: improve function SetMetrics() in order to set risk of bias for further uses in graphics.

Modify function: improve function PlotBeads() by introducing a new parameter, whichRoB, which enables users to show risk of bias for each treatment on beading plot. Besides, this modification is also to change the x-axis title of equidistant beading plot by ranks.

rankinma 0.2.1

Date: March 08, 2024

Modify function: fix bug in function PlotSpie().

Modify document: improve rankinma package manual by detailing argument P-best for parameter metrics in both GetMetrics() and SetMetrics() functions.

Modify document: improve rankinma package README file and Vignette.

Update to CRAN

Date: February 17, 2024

Modify function: improve function PlotBeads() by introducing a new parameter, lgcBlind, which enables users to generate the beading plot in a colorblind-friendly manner.

rankinma 0.2.0

Date: January 29, 2024

Update to CRAN

Date: January 27, 2024

Modify function: improve function PlotBeads() with newly added parameter scaleX, txtValue, szFntTxt, and rotateTxt for allowing user to set scale of x-axis, and show further information of each point with changeable font size and angle.

Date: January 20, 2024

Modify function: improve function SetMetrics() in order to set measured effects for further uses in graphics.

Date: January 13, 2024

Modify function: improve function GetMetrics() in order to get measured effects.

rankinma 0.1.9

Date: August 31, 2023

Modify document: improve rankinma package README file.

Date: August 20, 2023

Modify document: improve rankinma package manual by detailing returned values from function SetMetrics().

Date: August 08, 2023

Modify document: improve rankinma package manual by displaying description and details.

Modify function: improve function GetMetrics() in order to get SUCRA consistently and reproducibly.

Date: July 31, 2023

Modify function: improve function PlotBeads() with newly added parameter szPnt, szFntTtl, szFntTtlX, szFntX, szFntY, and szFntLgnd for allowing user to change size of beads, font size of main title for beading plot, font size of title on X-axis, font size of numeric scale on X-axis, font size of outcome name(s), and legend font size. Minor modification was also done for sorting legend by alphabet.

Modify function: improve function PlotHeat() with a newly added parameter szFntY for allowing user to change font size of outcome name(s).

Date: July 30, 2023

Modify function: improve function PlotLine() and PlotBar() to illustrate line chart or bar chart according to descending order of global metrics of treatment ranking on single outcome.

Modify function: improve function PlotLine(), PlotBar(), and PlotHeat() with a newly added parameter rotateX in order to rotate labels on x-axis.

rankinma 0.1.8

Date: July 03, 2023

Update to CRAN

Modify function: remove routinely reported processing information from all functions in the rankinma package. The information only appear when users use function(s) inappropriately.

Modify function: improve function PlotLine() in order to produce cumulative line charts, and merged line chart.

Modify function: improve function PlotLine() in order to produce cumulative line charts, and merged line chart.

Date: June 23, 2023

Modify function: improve data setting in function SetMetrics() for scatter plot.

Modify function: improve data setting in both GetMetrics() and SetMetrics() functions for cumulative probability of rank.

rankinma 0.1.7

Date: April 23, 2023

Update to CRAN

Date: April 22, 2023

Modify function: add transparency in both functions of SetMetrics() and PlotBeads().

Modify function: modify function ShowColor() based on the updated function SetMetrics() on April 20, 2023.

Modify function: improve function PlotBar(), PlotLine(), and PlotSpie() to show user-defined colors appropriately.

Modify function: improve function PlotHeat() to show heat plot with order of metrics or treatment appropriately.

rankinma 0.1.6

Date: April 20, 2023

Add function: PlotSpie() is added to the rankinma in order to illustrate Spie plot of global metrics of treatment ranking (i.e. SUCRA and P-score) using object of class rankinma set by function SetMetrics().

Modify function: improve data setting and color in both functions of SetMetrics() and PlotBeads().

Update to CRAN

rankinma 0.1.5

Date: April 4, 2023

Modify function: keep user’s options of par (‘par(no.readonly)’) after illustrating plots with rankinma by using function on.exit().

Re-submit to CRAN

Date: April 1, 2023

Add function: PlotHeat() is added to the rankinma in order to illustrate heat plot of global metrics of treatment ranking (i.e. SUCRA and P-score) using object of class rankinma set by function SetMetrics().

rankinma 0.1.4

Date: March 27, 2023

Modify function: remove global assignment (‘<<-’) from package.

Submit to CRAN

Date: February 19, 2023

Push to github

Date: February 10, 2023

Modify function: all functions were modified due to warnings regarding … invisible binding for ‘<<-’ assignment … .

rankinma 0.1.3

Date: February 06, 2023

Add function: PlotLine() is added to the rankinma in order to illustrate line chart of global metrics of treatment ranking (i.e. SUCRA and P-score) using object of class rankinma set by function SetMetrics().

rankinma 0.1.2

Date: January 31, 2023

Add function: PlotBar() is added to the rankinma in order to illustrate bar chart of global metrics of treatment ranking (i.e. SUCRA and P-score) using object of class rankinma set by function SetMetrics().

rankinma 0.1.1

Date: January 30, 2023

Add function: GetMetrics() is added to the rankinma in order to get metrics of treatment ranking from object of class netmeta.

rankinma 0.1.0

Date: January 29, 2023

Build rankinma with first two functions including SetMetrics() and PlotBeads().

  1. SetMetrics() is to set imported data in rankinma format.

  2. PlotBeads() is to illustrate beading plot using object of class rankinma set by function SetMetrics().