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Elliott Lowy
Date Type Commands Description
2017/08/14 syntax html div showif() option no longer uses the prefix 'controls.'
syntax elfs settings reorganized; syntax re-arranged
☀ change - settings data moved to .dta files; all user settings will need to be re-set
2017/06/07 ☀ new - added title() option to most commands that use out() option
new rxonoff transform days supplied to days on/off
syntax out() email sub-option changed to hifi; the output is now standard html
syntax tone first var of main parameter moved to by() option; alternative new for() options allow spec of arbitrary (esp overlapping) groups
change tone some improvements to data output
☀ new cdw Browse the CDW metadata
change - significantly revamped display engine; handles some unicode
syntax sql do changed only(wrapper-id:) to only(:wrapper-id)
change sql path new syntax allows schema. as well as .schema
new codex new subcommand for codex to update the dictionaries with current CDW contents.
change finddata fixed copy strings to keep case, etc.
2017/04/07 ☀ new freetext Suite of commands for cleaning and categorizing free-text data.
2017/04/02 ☀ new out() New destintion: data — sends any output as tabular data to a file (stata/excel/text...)
change finddata tsame collect Fixed cmd-created variables so that renaming them keeps them from being dropped on re-run
change drany dropped specific command-variable option
☀ syntax codex Completely revamped v2 codex
☀ change globel Can assign categories to global macros; displays a clean, formatted list of global macros by category
syntax sql do script ^codex= subsumed into ^use=
change sql do Preview & metadata creation fixed & updated
syntax sql Specify 'path' in main parameter for tables, cols, dbd, clear
new sql write wide Write sql for reshape/pivot
new sql write leftall Write sql for left-joining many tables (with specified columns) to an index table
change cdl Changed the way cdl runs project settings; added edit option to cdl
gone proj subsumed into cdl
2016/09/20 ☀ new lowy subcommands display this stuff, and take over for help lowy and lowyupdate
gone help lowy lowyupdate subsumed into lowy
change elfs combined bits from elfs misc with bits that used to be implicit to make the new elfs hooks
change elfs revised all the docs, to v2; esp: added remarks on how & why to use elfs facts
☀ change elfs startup added whatsnew (this listing) and hooks
change elfs instance elfs colors fixed several bugs causing errors on the TS
new remeta documented and improved; uses the project folder
syntax finddata moved options noreplace and expand to suboptions of copy(); renamed option onefind to uniquelyfound
new finddata added 2 return values: r(matched) r(uniquely)