nomiShape 1.0.0
- Initial CRAN submission.
- Provides tools to visualize and analyze nominal (categorical,
unordered) variable distributions.
- Introduces novel centered bar and dot plots, which arrange
categories from most frequent at the center outward, allowing detection
of distributional patterns such as uniformity, dominance, symmetry,
skewness, and long-tail behavior — an approach not previously available
in R.
- Includes functions to plot, analyze, and perform model comparison
using AIC for nominal data shapes.
- Main functions:
ranked_barplot(),
centered_barplot(), centered_dotplot(),
shape_comp_plot(), shape_aic().
- Designed for exploratory data analysis of nominal variables.
nomiShape 1.0.1
New data
- Added
ufo dataset: 63,561 UFO sighting reports from the
National UFO Reporting Center, with emphasis on nominal distribution
shapes of reported object forms.
- Added
categories4 dataset: synthetic nominal data
designed to illustrate dominance and normal-like frequency
patterns.
Improvements
- Revised
shape_aic() to ensure consistent comparison
across all theoretical shapes and alignment with
shape_comp_plot() heuristics.