bp 1.0.0

• First release.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

bp 1.0.1

• Fixed missing path argument warning for bp_report
• Added GitHub URL to DESCRIPTION file with BugReports link
• Added install.packages(“bp”) instructions in ReadMe
• Fixed minor dependency issues in the NAMESPACE

bp 1.0.2

• Fixed minor bug in dow_tod_plots if DATE is missing
• Added warnings to bp_sleep_metrics if input is not as expected
• Treat night as sleep in ABPM data in the absence of sleep/wake information

bp 2.0.0

Major Updates:

• Complete overhaul to process_data() function by adding the following changes:
  • Added a data_process_helpers.R file to improve the readability and efficiency of background processes of process_data() function
  • Added argument to aggregate data (agg) for successive measurements and collapse if desired
  • Added argument to differentiate between HBPM, ABPM, and AP data types
  • Added argument to differentiate the end-of-day (eod)
  • Restructured the way that BP stages are calculated in order to obtain a 2-to-1 mapping of SBP & DBP to a respective category
  • Added the ability to change the input date/time format and specify time zone
  • Added the ability to adjust the order of the data (chronological vs reverse-chronological)
• Addition of new visualization functions:
  • bp_ts_plots: Time series plots
  • dip_class_plot: Plot for dipping percentage classification
• Addition of new Hypertension metrics:
  • dip_calc: Nocturnal dipping percentage
  • bp_sleep_metrics: Sleep metrics that include weighted SD (wSD), morning blood pressure surge (PW_mbps and ST_mbps), and morningness-eveningness (ME_avg and ME_diff)
• Added 4 new data sets:
  • bp_preg
  • bp_children
  • bp_ghana
  • bp_rats

Bug Fixes:

• Set UTC time zone for bp_jhs for consistency of time conversion across systems
• More flexible output of bp_report for either direct plotting or saving grob object for later
• Renamed hypnos_data.rda to bp_hypnos.rda for consistency

bp 2.0.1

• Minor bug fixes related to user-supplied data with missing values
  • Adjustments to process_data function (data_screen issue, various back-end helper functions, etc)
  • Omits NA values in various metric calculations and nocturnal metrics
  • Fixed various plotting issues
• Corrected medical references surrounding sleep vs nocturnal language

bp 2.1.0

• Restructuring of bp_type argument in various functions to consist of ‘both’, ‘sbp’, ‘dbp’ instead of 0, 1, 2
  • NOTE: This may affect legacy functionality / backward compatibility
• Removed deprecated functions from documentation: arv, cv, sv (replaced with bp_arv, bp_cv, bp_sv)
• Fixed histogram binning for missing / Null values