NEWS

tidyLPA 2.0.0

Fix issue where single column DF when using package = "MplusAutomation" would lead to duplicate NAMES = in Mplus syntax

Add C. J. van Lissa as author on JOSS paper
Fix bug re. passing additional parameters to mplusObject()
Add function to calculate Lo-Mendell-Rubin LR test
Add plot_bivariate function
Set default for plot_profiles(add_line = FALSE), because the line does not convey any meaningful information
Add curry_mac data
remove messages about depracated functions

minor bug fixes
last update before transitioning to development version presently at https://github.com/cjvanlissa/tidyLPA
thank you to Qingyao Z. and @frigoli for correcting an error in the vignette and to others who submitted issues/identified bugs

change how models are specified; instead of using the model argument, whether and how the variances are covariances are estimated are passed the the variances and covariances argument; there are details in the readme and vignette and if a model argument is passed to a function, a message is returned describing how to specify the model using the variances and covariances arguments

change the compare_solutions_mplus() functions Mplus to still allow for the specification of six models, but to use the same four as compare_solutions() (which uses the mclust package, not MPlus) by default

improve NAMESPACE documentation
add option to return original data frame for functions that use MPlus
add option to use missing data for functions that use MPlus
add [email protected] mailing list address to README as preferred contact method
remove deprecated function (to extract key statistics from an MPlus model)
make it so that a data frame with fit and other statistics is returned by default from compare_solutions_mplus()
added new values to the statistics returned by compare_solutions_mplus():
- the cell size (the number of observations associated with each profile)
- the number of times the log-likelihood was replicated, based on the number of optimization steps
- Approximate Weight of Evidence (AWE) criterion
- the number of parameters estimated
remove the messages about the software being in beta
how the Mplus syntax is generated was substantially changed/improved; thanks @gbiele

change include_LMR argument to include VLMR
remove scale_fill_brewer("", type = "qual", palette = "Set3") so that solutions with larger numbers of profiles may be plotted
fix issue where lines longer than 90 characters (i.e., when there are many variables) cause an error

improve plot_profiles() plots, including plotting bootstrapped standard when mclust output is directly used (thanks @cjvanlissa) & updated vignette with example of this
improve output from compare_solutions_mplus (thanks @DJAnderson07)
add function, extract_LL_mplus(), to extract log-likelihoods from models fit witsah estimate_profiles_mplus()
update documentation for pisaUSA15 dataset
improve compare_solutions_mplus() so it more reliably handles errors
improve vignette (thanks @oreojo for suggestion to mention that this package works best for continuous variables)
add URLs for package and bug reports to DESCRIPTION
add C.J. van Lissa and Daniel John Anderson as contributors

Fix:

Minor updates:

Update README and Vignette
Update function names to include MPlus
Export %>% from magrittr (so it does not need to be loaded from dplyr)
Correct name of title for vignette
Update function names
Change output of estimate_profiles_mplus() to be returned with return(), instead of with invisible()