NEWS

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chevron 0.2.12.91

• Update dependencies versions.

chevron 0.2.12 (2025-06-20)

• Code enhancement in dst01 and dtht01 tables, adding table_names and parent_names when using split_rows_by and analysis on the same variable multiple times, enhancing the table paths. Upstream enhancement from rtables.

chevron 0.2.11 (2025-04-15)

• A new precision arguments now control the statistical analysis and numbers of digits presented in ext01.
• A new map argument now controls the direction of abnormality associated with each parameter in lbt05.
• A new keep argument prevents the removal of the "Any" (or other user specified) rows during the processing of lbt07 if the table is pruned.
• A new keep argument prevents the removal of the "Any Abnormality" (or other user specified) rows during the processing of lbt05.
• The label attributes of AEBODSYS and AEDECOD in adae are automatically modified during the pre processing of AET02, AET03, AET04 and AET10.
• New dataset slot in chevron_tlg class to store the name of the data sets used in the template.
• Fix a bug that caused all rows to be pruned from the lbt05 table even when they contain non-zero values.

chevron 0.2.10 (2025-02-20)

• Change package maintainer to Joe Zhu.

chevron 0.2.9

• The default precision for parameters in egt01 is now of 0 digits.
• vst01 default precision for diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure and pulse rate is now 0. Default precision for other parameters remains 2.
• lbt01 default precision for several parameters is now provided by the lab_paramcd_precision function.
• lbt05 now prints a clearer error message when PARAM, AVALCAT1 and ABN_DIR variables in adlb are not of class factor.
• ttet01_main now prints a clearer error message when a level in arm_var variable is missing.
• lbt05 has a new argument map that controls the direction of abnormality associated with each parameter. The default values are provided by the new lab_paramcd_abn_dir function.
• A bug in lbt05 that was removing every rows when prune_0 = TRUE has been fixed.
• A new keep argument prevents the removal of the "Any" (or other user specified) rows during the processing of lbt05 and lbt07 when the table is pruned.

chevron 0.2.8

• New unwrap argument prints preprocessing, main, postprocessing and layout function upon execution of the run method.
• The chevron.run.verbose option and R_CHEVRON_RUN_VERBOSE environment variable control the verbose argument of the run method, while the chevron.run.unwrap option and R_CHEVRON_RUN_UNWRAP environment variable control the unwrap argument.

chevron 0.2.7 (2024-10-09)

• Add the AEL02, AEL03 and CML02A_gl templates.
• Modify the post processing of MHT01 to allow multiple row_split_var.
• Improve the report_null method to facilitate the creation of null reports.
• Export the std_postprocessing function to simplify post processing logic.
• AET01 can now additionally display the number of death and withdrawal using the show_wd argument.
• MNG01 line type can now be controlled with the line_type argument.
• script_funs doesn't rely anymore on source code of pre processing functions.

chevron 0.2.6 (2024-04-25)

• Added assertion on class of summaryvars argument of dmt01().
• Additional arguments can be passed to ael01_nollt run method, for instance to split the resulting listing.
• strat argument of kmg01_main is now deprecated - use strata instead.
• grob_list and gg_list are now deprecated - use list() instead.

chevron 0.2.5 (2024-02-01)

• MNG01 plot can now be displayed without error bars and can display a continuous temporal scale on the x axis.
• Add a chevron_simple class which only contains main function.
• Remove details argument in script_funs, add name argument.
• In the run method, the argument passed through ... are combined with the one passed through user_arg. ... arguments have priority.
• AET05 preprocessing now filters on "(AE|CQ|SMQ)TTE" rather than "AETTE".
• Rename the dataset ADAETTE in syn_data object to ADSAFTTE. Trim the dataset to remove unused variables.
• Use uppercase variable names in AET05 and AET05_ALL.
• The string replacing NA values in the tables is now controlled by the tern_default_na_str option set during package load.
• Specified minimal version of package dependencies.

chevron 0.2.4

• TTET01 now uses "NE" to represent NA values.

chevron 0.2.3

• Fix argument printing for run method.
• Remove six unused tables from the syn_data object.
• Fix EGT03 to allow multiple parameters.
• Update TTET01 to provide meaningful error message if stratification variables do not exist in analysis dataset.
• PDT01 preprocessing now filters addv to retain only major protocol deviation.
• AEL01_NOLLT now has argument unique to keep only the unique rows in listing.
• AET01_AESI, EGT02 and LBT14 now remove the check in preprocessing function.
• COXT01 will drop levels on arm_var in preprocessing function now.
• MNG01 uses a ggtheme argument to set graphic parameters instead of the now defunct show_h_grid, show_v_grid and legend_pos arguments. The table arguments now controls the behavior of the table. The arguments show_n and show_table are now defunct.
• Add RMPT06 template.
• The stats and precision arguments now control the statistical analysis and numbers of digits presented in DMT01.
• FSTG01 and FSTG02 template removes the max_colwidth argument. Default font size of the plot is set to 7.
• Introduce set_section_div function to add empty line separator between specified row splits.
• AET02 template the default order of "Total number of events" and "Total number of patients with at least one adverse event" switched.

chevron 0.2.2

• Allow EGT03 to include multiple parameters.
• Allow KMG01 to include stratified variables.
• Allow LBT06 and LBT14 to be split by pages.
• Allow AET02, CMT01A to change the summary statistics with summary_labels argument.
• Add FSTG02 template.
• Update the argument "is_event" in KMG01 to "IS_EVENT".
• Update the argument "is_rsp" in FSTG01 to "IS_RSP".
• FSTG01 and FSTG02 stratification variable labels will be truncated to fit the page.
• Update the script for chevron_tlg objects. The details argument is deprecated.
• Fix issue when run method is executed with do.call and verbose argument.

chevron 0.2.1

• Placeholder strings are now replaced during layout creation using dunlin::render_safe function.
• New chevron_catalog vignette details usage and version of chevron templates.
• The run method renders the errors faster thanks to the new internal do_call function.
• Add verbose argument for run method which would print the argument used.
• Add row_split_var and page_var as argument for some template.
• The dataset slot in chevron_tlg class has been removed.
• Add CFBT01 template. VST01, EGT01 and LBT01 are now all following CFBT01. By default parameters are displayed by page .
• Add RMPT03, RMPT04 and RMPT05 which follow RMPT01.
• Add COXT01 template. COXT02 is now based on COXT01.
• Add AET05 and AET05_ALL templates.
• Add LBT15 based on LBT04. LBT04 has new arguments to make it more flexible.
• Update EGT03 to use ACTARMCD as default arm variable, and remove the preprocessing of filtering to "HR".
• Update EXT01 to allow it to be displayed by PARCAT2.
• Update LBT06 template to use PARAM as row split.
• Convert AVISIT to factor and order levels according to AVISITN in preprocessing.
• Update MNG01 so that the numeric jitter argument controls the width of data spread along the x-axis.

chevron 0.2.0

• Remove the usage of dm class of object. The chevron functions now expect list of data.frame as adam_db argument.
• Remove variants in template names.
• Remove deprecated getter functions get_main, get_preprocess and get_postprocess.
• Simplify pre function and add more data checks in main function.
• Remove redundant assertion functions.
• Add more templates: AET10, KMG01, RSPT01, RMPT01, COXT02, FSTG01, and LBT06.

chevron 0.1.4

• Use list to replace character in template arguments.

chevron 0.1.3

• Add more templates: AET01_AESI, EGT03, EGT05_QTCAT, LBT04, LBT05, LBT07, LBT14, PDT01, PDT02.
• Deprecation of previous getter function like get_main to main and main<-.
• Add chevron_t, chevron_l and chevron_g subclass of chevron_tlg.
• Add script_funs and script_args to obtain string representation of the full code.
• Update to current templates.

chevron 0.1.2

• Update snapshot tests

chevron 0.1.1

• First release with implementation of: AET01, AET02, AET03, AET04, CMT01A, CMT02_PT, DMT01, DST01, DTHT01, EGT01, EGT02, EXT01, LBT01, MHT01, MNG01, VST01, VST02.