monash package for R

Published on 5 March 2008 in Software

The monash package provides miscellaneous functions developed by the Monash University Statistics & Econometrics Consulting Service. In particular, it includes functions for handling Likert-scale data, and a function to save a figure with minimal surrounding space so it can be included in a LaTeX file.

Current version: 1.05
Last updated: 20 August 2012

History of changes

Changes to v1.05 (20 August 2012)

  • Minor updates due to changes in the stats and base package for R.

Changes to v1.04 (5 March 2008)

  • Bug in saving png and jpg files now fixed.

Changes to v1.03 (19 November 2007)

  • The generic function median() and median.default() removed as they are now part of the stats package.
  • The savefig() command and its derivatives updated to take advantage of units specification in jpeg() and png().

Changes to v1.02 (21 March 2007)

  • Added png option to savefig(). Also added saveeps(), savejpg() and savepng().
  • Added ls.size().

Changes to v1.01 (5 September 2006)

  • Added namespace and cleaned up help files.
  • Added savepdf() as a wrapper for savefig().