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Create Tables of Frequencies

A young tabulation helper whose first releases are all dependency modernisation

tidyversetabulationr-packagedependency-modernisationearly-stage
Current state
tidytab is a small R package for tidyverse-style tabulation, three releases into its public life. Nothing so far has added functionality: 0.2.0 fixed a cumulative-percentage calculation and moved to the base R pipe, and 0.3.0 swapped a retired purrr function for tidyr::expand_grid. The one substantive user-facing item in the history is the cumulative percentage fix.
Where it's heading
The package is being brought up to current tidyverse conventions by a wave of first-time contributors — six of them in 0.2.0 alone — rather than developed by a sustained maintainer effort. That makes the near-term direction predictable and narrow: retire deprecated idioms, keep CRAN checks clean. There is not yet enough history to say what the package intends to become.
Prediction
With deprecated tidyselect and purrr usage now cleared, the remaining work of this kind is thin, so the next release will show whether the contributor interest converts into new tabulation features or the package settles at its current surface.

Recent moves

  1. 7mo ago

    purrr::cross2() replaced with tidyr::expand_grid()

    A single substitution of a retired purrr function for its tidyr equivalent. Keeps the package current with tidyverse deprecations; no user-visible change.

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  2. 8mo ago

    Cumulative percentage fixed; base pipe replaces magrittr

    Corrects the cumulative percentage calculation, clears deprecated .data usage in tidyselect expressions, and moves from the magrittr pipe to the base R pipe. The calculation fix is the only change so far that alters what users get back.

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  3. 9mo ago

    NEWS.md added to track changes

    Adds a changelog file. Notable only as the point from which this package's history becomes readable at all.

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