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A (too long in the making) new version of WrightMap is now available on CRAN (Actually, version 1.2.1 is already up).
This new version includes a lot of features that have long been requested, including cut-point lines, alternative item displays (classical Wright Map look, histogram view), and differential item functioning plots among others.
We hope these changes can be of use to you, and we look forward to hearing your feedback!
Change log for this version:
Major changes:
wrightMap split into data handling and plotting, each of which is further split into person & item side. The data handling functions are further split by filetype and the plotting functions are split by plot types. For data handling, this is meant to make it possible to have item and person data of different filetypes. For plotting, this is meant to make the plotting function more flexible and make it easier to add different plot styles. Details:
wrightMap.default, wrightMap.CQmodel, wrightMap.character are now removed. There is only wrightMap.R, which calls the appropriate data handling and plotting functions
helper functions for data handling
parameter person.side accepts person plot functions personHist (default) and personDens
parameter item.side accepts item plot functions itemModern (default), itemClassic, and itemHist
API changes
the “type” parameter in wrightMap is now called “item.type” to avoid collision with the “type” parameter in the “plot” function.
For the same reason, the “type” parameter in fitgraph is now called “fit.type”
the “use.hist” parameter in wrightMap is deprecated. Create a histogram with person.side = personHist (default) and density with person.side = personDens
fitgraph and make.thresholds now explicitly include a version for numeric and matrix respectively. This should fix namespace problems for users who prefer to include external functions with :: notation.
New functions:
- plotCI
- difplot
- ppPlot
New features:
now possible to add points and ranges to person side
can easily add cutpoints on item side
added “classic” and “hist” item map
“throld” parameters added to make.thresholds and wrightMap, allowing for the calculation of thresholds other than .5
“alpha” and “c.params” added to make.thresholds and wrightMap, supporting the 2PL and 3PL models
label.items.cex and dim.lab.cex added to wrightMap to control label sizes
support for ConQuest4 added
“equation” added to CQmodel and wrightMap.CQmodel, to handle CQ output without a summary of estimation table
it is now possible to plot the person and item sides separately
Improvements:
wrightMap now remembers your original graphical parameters and restores them after drawing the map
fitgraph no longer calls a new window
better handling of generics
Bugfix:
Fixes to CQmodel on reading the #IO variance errors and included fix for the var/covar matrix on CQ3
Fixed a bug where thr.lab.pos couldn’t take a matrix
Fixed a bug where fitgraph.CQmodel assumed there was always a parameter called “item” in your table
Fixed a bug where CQmodel assumed there were always an error column in the RMP tables
wrightMap will no longer crash if the p.est parameter is null
Other notes:
- Removed some of the runtime messages
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