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reporter 1.4.7 (2026-05-15)

Added "group_cohesion" and "break_label" parameters to define() function.
Fixed page numbering in titles and footnotes.
Improved page breaking for DOCX.
Fixed issues with spanning header borders.
Allow user to remove stub row label by passing an NA.
Fixed some issues with blank rows.

reporter 1.4.6 (2026-02-07)

Added ability to set width of columns in page header and page footer. When width of a column is set to zero, it will be removed.
Added center column in page header.
Added functions header_image() and footer_image() to insert an image into the page header and footer.
Added "group_border" parameter to define() function to put a border line after each group.
Added a "bold" parameter to page_by() function to allow user to control bolding on page-by text. Has options to bold label, value, or both.
Improved page breaking when page by label or value is very long.
Improved page breaking in some special situations, especially on DOCX.
Fixed bug on DOCX page_footer() when there are multiple rows.
Allow user to insert PNG image files on DOCX, RTF, and HTML output types.
Removed blank group row when it appears at the top of a page.
Fixed vertical alignment on HTML.

reporter 1.4.5 (2025-11-22)

Added ability to import EMF files to RTF and DOCX outputs.
Changed default font on create_report() to "Courier" instead of "fixed". If you want a fixed-width report, set font = "fixed" explicitly.
Added gap between spanning header lines for RTF, DOCX, and HTML.
Improved indenting on the stub so wrapped lines are indented properly.
Fixed several problems with PDF borders.
Fixed problem with HTML spanning underlines.
Added option for "blank_before" on define() function for all output types.
Increased max column width to 5 inches.

reporter 1.4.4 (2024-03-19)

Fixed bug on dedupe functionality.
Fixed bug on page_by() format for create_plot().
Fixed bug on continuous table outside borders.
Fixed bug with early page break when appending content dynamically.
Fixed bug on page numbers in title for RTF.
Fixed bug where show_cols was overriding define() visible = FALSE.

reporter 1.4.3 (2023-10-29)

Fix dedupe functionality on define() function when values are not unique.
Fixes for CRAN.

reporter 1.4.2 (2023-09-30)

Added example for page breaking.
Added columns parameter to footnotes() function.
Allow user to put new line in page-by column value.
Remove message on page-by sort.
Fixed character escape on DOCX.
Added "format" parameter to page_by() function.
Fixed some border issues on DOCX and PDF.
Fixed problem with paging and blank lines.

reporter 1.4.1 (2023-05-12)

Fixed bug on DOCX when attempting to add multiple plots.
Fixed bug on PDF when one blank row breaks to next page and messes up column centering.
Added indent to stub rows that wrap.

reporter 1.3.9 (2023-03-17)

Added italics font parameter to footnotes.
Added bold font parameter to spanning headers.
Fixed page count in PDF footnotes.

reporter 1.3.8 (2022-11-28)

Fixed bug when logging plot with jpeg file.
Removed table breaks on RTF plot and text content when titles/footnotes are aligned.
Fixed bug when using symbols on portrait RTF output. Symbols were being turned 90 degrees.
Fixed bug when logging patchwork objects.
Added "continuous" parameter to create_table(). When true, table will be created a a continuous table spanning multiple pages, and not repeating titles and footnotes. Currently for RTF only.
Allowed EMF files on create_plot() for RTF output.
Added cell_style() object to apply styling to particular cells in a table.
Changed license to CC0.

reporter 1.3.7 (2022-10-07)

Fix for error on R-devel identified by R Core team.
Added background color to footnotes in SASDefault theme.
Allowed user to pass a custom page size.
Removed break between titles, footnotes, and table body on RTF tables when widths are equal.

reporter 1.3.6 (2022-09-13)

Added option to write_report() to turn off logging if desired.
Added "header_bold" parameter to create_table() to bold the header.
Added "header" parameter to titles() to put the title in the page header.
Added "footer" parameter to footnotes() to put the footnotes in the page footer.
Fixed bug when trying to create blank rows on an invisible column.
Fixed bug when trying to dedupe columns in stub.
Added glue functionality to titles, footnotes, page header, page footer, and column labels.
Added "columns" parameter on titles() function to allow the title block to have between 1 and 3 columns.
Fixed some bugs on PDF borders.
Updated logo.

reporter 1.3.5 (2022-08-08)

Fixed several borders-related bugs on RTF, DOCX, and PDF.
Fixed valign bug on footnote on RTF.
Fixed bug on create_text() that was not allowing new line escapes to work properly.
Added ttl(), ftn(), and span() attribute functions. Used by other r-sassy packages to create reports.
Moved some examples to sassy package to reduce size.
Documentation fixes and updates.

reporter 1.3.3 (2022-06-20)

Fixed bug on DOCX that was causing R Studio to crash when using a relative path.
Fixed some DOCX spacing issues.
Added create_style() and add_style() functions, which allow the user to add styling to a report. Only HTML implemented in this release.
Documentation fixes and updates.

reporter 1.3.1 (2022-03-10)

Added DOCX output type.
Fixed bug on RTF and HTML which was preventing multiple contents from being added to the same report.
Fixed bug calculating cell wrapping on RTF and HTML.
Fixed bug on HTML preventing first_row_blank parameter from working properly.
Fixed bug on spanning header underline on RTF and HTML.
Improved column width and page size estimates on RTF and HTML.

reporter 1.2.9 (2022-01-26)

Added all border options to PDF.
Allowed create_plot() to accept a JPG image path so that the user can embed plot images exported from other charting packages besides ggplot.

reporter 1.2.8 (2021-12-10)

Added Arial, Times, and Courier fonts to PDF output type.
Fixed bug on RTF preventing first_row_blank parameter from working properly.
Added FAQ and Complete Examples.

reporter 1.2.6 (2021-11-13)

Added 'HTML' output type to create_report() and write_report() functions. This was a major change that allows the user to output reports in HTML. By default, the HTML is in a 'paged' format, meaning it is suitable for printing. If you want unpaged HTML, set the paper_size parameter on create_report() to 'none'. This configuration will create a standard HTML web page, with all content dumped to a single page and no page breaks.
Added bold and font_size parameters to the titles() function. This change allows the user to create titles that are bold and a larger font size than the page body.
Added 9pt and 11pt font to all output types that accept a font size.
Added 'body' option to borders parameter on create_table() function so the user can get borders only on the table body.
Various bug fixes and documentation updates.

reporter 1.2.0 (2021-10-10)

Added Arial, Times, and Courier fonts to RTF output type. This change required a significant rewrite to RTF report creation functions. Font is controlled using the font parameter on the create_report() function. Old text-style RTF output is still available using the "fixed" font.
Added font_size parameter to create_report() function.
Added valign parameter to footnotes() function.
Added width paremeter to titles(), title_header(), and footnotes() functions.
Added borders parameter to create_table(), create_text(), and create_plot() functions.

reporter 1.1.6 (2021-09-08)

Added support for covr and codecov.
Fixed overflow bug on RTF on Linux when using 12pt font.
Fixed line length/alignment issues on titles and footnotes.

reporter 1.1.3 (2021-08-06)

Made package compatible back to R 3.6.
Added GitHub Actions for prior R version checks.
Figured out how to generate PDF files directly, instead of using Latex/Rmarkdown/MikTex/Pandoc. Will greatly reduce dependencies and make the reporter package much easier to install and test. Also makes it much easier to accurately render the PDF file.
Allow user to add more than one title header().
Made output_type parameter case insensitive.
Added standard_eval parameter to define(), spanning_header(), and column_defaults() functions. These parameters will replace curly brace escape on those functions. Curly brace escape will remain active for backward compatibility, but is no longer documented.
Fixed bug in RTF that was causing page overflows in LibreOffice Writer.
Various other bug fixes.

reporter 1.1.2 (2021-01-19)

Changed column width calculation to make sum of widths equal the total width of the table. Previously it was excluding the column gutter from the calculation.
Removed error on title/footnote width being too long. Changed to warning and truncated text instead, so the user can at least see what is going on.
Integrated logging functionality with logr package. write_report() will now log results automatically when logr autolog is enabled.
Added underline parameter to spanning_header() to turn it on or off
Added 8pt font
Added border property to titles(), footnotes(), and title_header() functions.
Added {{}} double curly escape on parameters accepting unquoted parameters, so that users could pass them as variables inside a function.
Added pkgdown site
Fixed bug on deleting image files in the temp directory.
Various small bugs and documentation fixes/improvements

reporter 1.0.6 (2020-11-20)

Added support for survminer graphics in create_plot().

reporter 1.0.5 (2020-11-19)

A package to create statistical reports (TFLs). Contains the following features:

Outputs reports in TXT, RTF, and PDF file format
Titles, footnotes, page header, and page footer are repeated on each page
Supports header labels and spanning headers
Calculates default columns widths automatically
Includes automatic wrapping and splitting of wide and long tables
Integrates with the fmtr package to format numeric, date, and character data
Plots from the popular ggplot2 package can be added to RTF and PDF reports
Allows appending multiple tables to a report, multiple tables to a page, and intermingling of text, tables, and plots
Supports in-report date/time stamps and "Page X of Y" page numbering