faux 1.2.3 (2025-09-25)
- Fixed failing tests due to ggplot2 4.0 ggplot object sturcture
changes
- Moved to https://github.com/scienceverse/faux
- Website is now https://scienceverse.github.io/faux
faux 1.2.2 (2025-01-17)
- Fixed some tests that were suddenly erroring on some platforms
(hence the removal from CRAN)
- Removed some vignettes to make package size smaller for CRAN (they
are still available on the website)
faux 1.2.1.9002 (2024-02-10)
- Fixed a bug in
rmulti()that assigned correlations to the wrong pairs with
more than 3 variables (thanks @yann1cks!)
- Made rmulti()more efficient by skipping adjusted r
simulation for normal-normal pairs
- Added nbinom2norm()conversion function, but not sure
it works right unless you setsizeandprobmanually (produces a warning if you don’t)
faux 1.2.1.9001 (2023-07-07)
- Fixed a bug in interactive_design()that didn’t allow
mu, sd or r with more than 0.1 accuracy, and gave incorrect error
messages for r specifications with more than 1 value.
faux 1.2.1 (2023-04-18)
- add_between()and- add_within()don’t
convert non-character levels to factors any more * submitting to CRAN
(sorry for letting it get archived!)
faux 1.2.0 (2023-02-03)
- rmulti()function for multivariate distributions that
aren’t all normal (experimental)
- Minor changes to add_random()
- Fixed minor vignette bugs for CRAN
- Various minor bug fixes
faux 1.1.0.9005 (2023-02-02)
- Fixed the longargument forsim_df()
faux 1.1.0.9004 (2022-02-13)
- Improvements for rmulti()and associated helper
functionsconvert_r()andfh_bounds().
- A vignette for NORTA
faux 1.1.0.9003 (2021-12-02)
- rmulti()function for multivariate distributions that
aren’t all normal (experimental)
faux 1.1.0.9002 (2021-12-01)
- Likert distribution functions rlikert(),dlikert(),plikert()andqlikert()
faux 1.1.0.9001 (2021-11-23)
- add_random()now names random factor items with the
full random factor name (e.g., “class1”, not “c1”)
- add_random()allows you to set specific factor item
names (see vignette)
faux 1.1.0 (2021-09-13)
Breaking changes
- sim_design()now names anonymous within and between
factors like W and B or W1, W2, W3, …, and B1, B2, … instead of A, B, C,
…
New features
- add_contrast()and associated contr_code_***
functions
- add_random()and associated mixed design building
functions
Minor improvements and fixes
- get_params()doesn’t need between, within, id, and dv
set for date created by- sim_design()
- plot_design()can display a subset of factors
- sim_design()fixed a bug in when setting n with an
unnamed vector and within-subjects factors
faux 1.0.0.9006 (2021-09-13)
- Added a vignette about creating random reports using the mixed
effects building functions.
faux 1.0.0.9006 (2021-08-30)
- fixed a bug in sim_design()when setting n with an
unnamed vector and within-subjects factors (wouldn’t run before).
- Updated add_between()andadd_within()to
make new columns factors with the same ordering as the
specification
- Updated contrast functions to work with non-factor columns
- add_between().prob argument works as expected now (and
has tests)
faux 1.0.0.9005 (2021-08-11)
- Updated contrasts vignette
- renamed contr_code_deviation()tocontr_code_anova()
faux 1.0.0.9004 (2021-08-10)
- Updated contrasts vignette
- new add_contrast()function
- renamed the contrast functions to all start with
contr_code_
faux 1.0.0.9003 (2021-08-09)
- added new contrast functions and changed labelling of others
- updated contrasts vignette
faux 1.0.0.9002 (2021-08-08)
- plot_design()can display a subset of factors
- updated plotting vignette to explain changing palettes
- updated mixed effects builder functions to avoid column name
clashes
- added experimental contrast functions and vignette
faux 1.0.0.9001 (2021-03-27)
- added new mixed effect builder functions
- updated mixed effects vignette
- anonymous within and between factors in sim_design()are now named W and B or W1, W2, W3, …, B1, B2, … instead of A, B, C, …
(and fixed relevant tests and vignette code)
- fixed get_params()so it doesn’t need between, within,
id, and dv set for date created bysim_design()
faux 1.0.0 (2021-03-27)
- Released on CRAN
- Fixed a typo in faceratings for one face_eth (“eats asian/white”
=> “east asian/white”)
faux 0.0.1.65 (2021-03-23)
- Fixed a bug in rnorm_pre()when simulating a vector
with correlations to more than 2 pre-existing vectors.
- Updated vignettes for new functions and changes.
faux 0.0.1.64 (2021-03-19)
- sim_design()should no longer mangle level values in
long format if they have underscores
- sim_design()should play better with different
separator. FOr example, if you set- faux_options(sep = ".")and have within-subject factors A and B with levels A_1/A_2 and B_1/B_2,
your wide data will have columns A_1.B_1, A_1.B_2, A_2.B_1, A_2.B_2
faux 0.0.1.63 (2021-03-14)
- fixed bug in sim_design()where parameters specified as
a named vector couldn’t be in a different order unless both between and
within factors were specified (e.g.,mu = c(A2 = 2, A1 = 1)resulted in a mu of 2 for A1 and 1 for A2).
faux 0.0.1.62 (2021-03-13)
- new sim_joint_dist()function to simulate the joint
distribution of categories
- sim_df()no longer breaks if there are NAs in the DV
columns
- sim_df()now has an option to include missing data, it
simulates the joint distribution of missingness for each between-subject
cell
- some functions (sim_df()andmessy()) can
choose columns with unquoted names now (e.g.,messy(mtcars, .5, mpg))
- messy()now takes a vector of proportions so you can
simulate different amounts of missing data per selected column
- sample_from_pop()is now vectorised
faux 0.0.1.61 (2021-02-06)
- get_params()doesn’t require within and between set for
data made with faux (that has a “design” attribute)
- fixed bug in get_params()where the var column was
alphabetised, but the corresponding columns for the correlation table
were in factor order
- several new distribution conversion functions and a vignette
- this version isn’t on CRAN yet
faux 0.0.1.6 (2021-01-05)
- nested_list()updated to match scienceverse version and
handle edge cases better
- changes to tests for changes in CRAN development environments
- rnorm_multi()can get column names from mu, sd, or r
names
faux 0.0.1.5 (2020-09-11)
- Removed a test using markdown that failed on Solaris (causing faux
to be pulled from CRAN) Back on CRAN!
- seedarguments reinstated as deprecated and produce a
warning
faux 0.0.1.4 (2020-08-12)
- Even more fixes for CRAN (on CRAN from 2009-08-19!)
- Removed all seedarguments (at the request of
CRAN)
- Faster unit tests
faux 0.0.1.3 (2020-08-10)
- More fixes for CRAN (fingers crossed!)
- Added a seedargument tornorm_multi()
- User options are no longer changed in vignettes
faux 0.0.1.2 (2020-08-03)
- Removed some dependencies
- Various bug fixes
- Submitting to CRAN again!
faux 0.0.1.1 (2020-06-25)
- Still not accepted to CRAN (but haven’t worked on it in a long
time)
- nested_listfunction for printing nested lists in
Rmd
- New codebookfunction and vignette
- Interactive mode for codebooks (experimental)
- Updated for new tidyverse versions
faux 0.0.1.0 (2020-02-27)
- Submitting to CRAN (wish me luck!)
faux 0.0.0.9019 (2020-02-26)
- Andrew Heiss added
norm2betafunction
- Added contributors (Andrew Heiss and Anna Krystali)
- trunc2normnow works if- minor- maxare omitted.
faux 0.0.0.9017 (2019-12-26)
- Added repargument tosim_design()andsim_data(). If rep > 1, returns a nested data frame withrepsimulated datasets.
- Fixed warnings on get_params()
- Improved make_id()function
faux 0.0.0.9016 (2019-12-10)
faux 0.0.0.9015 (2019-07-22)
- Added distribution conversion functions (still experimental)
faux 0.0.0.9014 (2019-06-09)
- More flexible parameter specification
- Set plotting default as a global option
faux_options(plot = TRUE)
- Minor bug fixes and efficiency increases
faux 0.0.0.9013 (2019-05-27)
- multi-factor cell names now in a more intuitive order (will
break old code that inputs parameters with unnamed
vectors)
- More flexible plotting styles (violin, jitter, box, pointrange with
SD or SE, and combos)
- Minor bug fixes
faux 0.0.0.9012 (2019-05-22)
- More flexible plots and data plots
- Setting seed doesn’t change the seed in your global environment
- Plot labels for dv and id (set them like
dv = list(colname = "Name for Plots"))
faux 0.0.0.9011 (2019-05-19)
- Changed default DV column name from ‘val’ to ‘y’
- Changed default ID column name from ‘sub_id’ to ‘id’
- sim_design()can take intercept-only designs
- rnorm_multi()can take vars = 1 for intercept-only
designs
- json_design()to output or save design specs in JSON
format
- Added functions for converting between distributions
faux 0.0.0.9010
- Fixed bugs in interactive specification
- Added messy()(thanks Emily)
- Better interactive specification (thanks Daniël)
faux 0.0.0.9009
- Bug fix for long2wide()(handle designs with no between
or no within factors)
- sim_df()returns subject IDs and takes data in long
format
- Renamed check_sim_stats()toget_params(),
which now returns the design
- Added interactive option to sim_design()
faux 0.0.0.9008
- added sim_mixed_cc()to simulate null cross-classified
mixed effect designs by subject, item and error SDs
- sim_design(),- sim_df(),- sim_mixed_cc()and- sim_mixed_df()take a- seedargument now for reproducible datasets
faux 0.0.0.9007
- Added a plot option to check_design()andsim_design()
- Design lists returned by check_design()have a more
consistent format
- n, mu, and sd are all data frames with between-cells as rows and
within-cells as columns
- withinand- betweenare named lists;
factors and labels are no longer separately named
 
faux 0.0.0.9006
- Changes to argument order and names (more consistent, but may break
old scripts)
- Updated vignettes
faux 0.0.0.9005
- Bug fixes for sim_design()(failed when within or
between factor number was 0)
faux 0.0.0.9004
- Added a NEWS.mdfile to track changes to the
package.
- Added sim_design()to simulate data for mixed ANOVA
designs.