NEWS

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ards 0.1.3 (2025-10-24)

• Added restore_ards() function to convert back to wide format.
• Removed any factors during add_ards() to avoid problems stacking data from different analysis variables.
• Added "factors" attribute to ARDS dataset to capture which columns were factors when added. This information will be used by restore_ards() to re-apply the factors on the transposed data.
• Added examples 1 and 2 for using ards package in parallel or serial.
• Added quite a few new test cases.

ards 0.1.2 (2025-09-12)

• Bug fix for byvars parameter in add_ards().
• Documentation fixes.

ards 0.1.1 (2023-03-21)

• Initial version.
• Add init_ards(), add_ards(), and get_ards() functions.
• Wrote documentation and created pkgdown site.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.