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nipnTK

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R package nipnTK by nutriverse — release notes from GitHub.

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nipnTK's toolkit is settled; the last two years have gone into packaging, not methods.

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◆Current state
An R implementation of the NiPN anthropometric data-quality checks — age heaping, age ratio tests, digit preference and the rest. The methods have been stable since the first CRAN release in 2020; the substantive change since was fixing ageRatioTest() for missing and numeric age values, shipped as a GitHub development release in April 2024 and to CRAN the next day. The most recent release is explicitly routine upkeep: refactored functions, a test for age heaping, pkgdown moved to the nutriverse template, citation and funding metadata.
◆Where it's heading
This is a maintained reference implementation rather than an evolving product. Release notes are dominated by repository plumbing — CI workflows, website templates, badges, CITATION files — which is what a package looks like once its statistical surface is complete and the work shifts to keeping it installable and citable. The nutriverse pkgdown template and shared conventions place it inside a family of nutrition packages from the same maintainer rather than standing alone.
◆Prediction
Expect continued maintenance releases driven by CRAN policy and the nutriverse template rather than new checks, since two of the last three releases contained no method changes at all.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6mo ago

    Maintenance release: refactoring, tests and packaging metadata

    A patch release of repository upkeep: function refactoring, a test for ageHeaping, the nutriverse pkgdown template, citation and funding metadata, and README badge edits. No change to the checks themselves.

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  2. 2y ago

    ageRatioTest fixed for missing and numeric age values

    The CRAN release of the ageRatioTest() fixes — the function now handles missing age values and numeric age correctly. A real correctness fix in a data-quality tool, where a silently wrong test result is the worst failure mode.

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  3. 2y ago

    Development precursor to the 0.2.0 ageRatioTest fixes

    A GitHub-only development release carrying the same ageRatioTest() fixes that reached CRAN the following day, plus a pkgdown deployment workflow. The dev precursor to 0.2.0 rather than a separate change.

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  4. 3y ago

    Repository and CI maintenance

    Repository and CI maintenance — Appveyor removed, GitHub Actions updated, default branch renamed, CITATION and contributor guidelines added, website moved to Bootstrap 5. No user-facing change.

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  5. 5y ago

    First CRAN release of the NiPN data-quality toolkit

    The first CRAN release, making the NiPN anthropometric data-quality checks installable as a package rather than copied scripts. The body says nothing beyond that, so the contents can only be read from what later releases maintain.

    View source ↗