mctq has been self-certified on the OpenSSF Best
Practices Badge Program.chronotype(), a wrapper function for
msf_sc(), was removed.shorter_interval() now don’t have the
inverse argument. Use longer_interval()
instead.shorter_duration() and longer_duration(),
two functions that return the shorter and the longer duration between
two hours, were introduced.sjl_sc() and sjl_sc_rel(), two functions
that allow the user to compute Jankowski’s MCTQ sleep-corrected social
jet lag, were introduced.mctq with
install.packages("mctq").1.0.0 (stable) mctq version. We don’t intend
to make any breaking changes, but we think is better to wait and see if
the user community don’t have any issues with the features.mctq is now a peer-reviewed
package by @ropensci! 🎉mctq have been changed. Old links have a redirect
protocol to point to the new repository and new website.assign_date() now returns only Interval
objects.convert() and all convert_*() functions
were removed. See a dedicated note about this below.ms() was renamed to msl(). See a dedicated
note about this below.sd() was renamed to sdu(). See a dedicated
note about this below.shortest_interval() was renamed to
shorter_interval().shorter_interval() and longer_interval()
now returns only Interval objects.sum_time() now have different arguments and was divided
in two functions: sum_time() (for non-vectorized sums) and
vct_sum_time() (for vectorized sums).sum_time() now returns only Duration
objects.cycle_time(), a function to cycle time spans, was
introduced.round_time() is now a S3 generic.cli package (now on
imports).mctq
package use Duration instead of Period
(objects from the lubridate package) as the
default object for time spans.convert()convert() was created considering the user experience
(sleep and chronobiology scientists). Since most of them don’t have much
experience with R and that time can have different types of
representations (e.g., decimal hours, radian), convert()
aim was to help transpose those difficulties, posing as an “universal
translator” (🖖).
However, after much thought and consideration, we believe that the
convert() feature may be out of the mctq
scope. It can maybe be part of another package (a lubritime
package perhaps? 😄). Other mctq tools, like
shorter_interval() and sum_time(), could also
be a part of that package (but are necessary in mctq for
the time being). Hence, we decided to remove convert() and
to instruct the user to check the lubridate and hms packages for
parsing/conversion.
sd() and ms()That was a tough, but necessary, call. Although we tried to preserve
the original author’s naming pattern for the MCTQ functions, the name
sd provokes a dangerous name collision with the widely used
stats::sd() function (standard deviation) and the name
ms provokes a name collision with
lubridate::ms() (a function for parsing minutes and seconds
components). That’s why we decided to renamed them. sdu()
and msl() are the only exceptions, all the other
mctq functions maintain a strong naming resemblance with
the original author’s naming pattern.
NEWS.md file to track changes to the
package.