Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

embed 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2025-09-08

Improvements

• Adds step_lencode() to perform analytical likelihood encoding. (#258)

• Adds smooth argument to step_lencode() to allow for partial pooling in numeric outcomes. (#261)

• step_feature_hash() has been fully deprecated in favor of textrecipes::step_dummy_hash(). (#253)

embed 1.1.5

CRAN release: 2025-01-22

Improvements

• step_umap() has tunable initial and target_weight arguments. (#223, #222)

• All messages, warnings and errors has been translated to use {cli} package (#153, #155).

embed 1.1.4

CRAN release: 2024-03-20

Improvements

• step_umap() has gained initial and target_weight arguments. (#213)

• Calling ?tidy.step_*() now sends you to the documentation for step_*() where the outcome is documented. (#216)

• Documentation for tidy methods for all steps has been improved to describe the return value more accurately. (#217)

• {keras} and {tensorflow} have been moved to Suggests instead of Imports. (#218)

embed 1.1.3

CRAN release: 2023-10-28

• step_collapse_stringdist() will now return predictors as factors. (#204)

• Fixed regression from 1.1.2 in step_lencode_glm() where it couldn’t be used on multiple columns.

embed 1.1.2

CRAN release: 2023-08-17

Improvements

• The keep_original_cols argument has been added to step_woe(). This change should mean that every step that produces new columns has the keep_original_cols argument. (#194)

• Many internal changes to improve consistency and slight speed increases.

Breaking Changes

• step_pca_sparse(), step_pca_truncated() and step_pca_sparse_bayes() now returns data unaltered if num_comp = 0. This is done to be consistent with recipes steps of the same nature. (#190)

embed 1.1.1

CRAN release: 2023-05-30

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where step_pca_truncated() didn’t work with zero selection. (#181)

• The tidy() methods for step_discretize_cart(), step_discretize_xgb(), step_embed(), step_feature_hash(), step_lencode_bayes(), step_lencode_glm(), step_lencode_mixed(), step_pca_sparse(), step_pca_sparse_bayes(), step_pca_truncated(), step_umap(), and step_woe() now correctly return zero-row tibbles when used with empty selections. (#181)

embed 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2023-04-14

New Steps

• step_pca_truncated() has been added. This step only calculates the components that are required, and will be a speedup in cases where it is used on many variables. (#82)

Improvements

• step_collapse_stringdist() has gained method and options arguments to allow for different types of string distance calculations. (#152)

• step_umap() has gained the argument metric. (#154)

• step_embed() has gained the keep_original_cols argument. (#176)

• All steps now have required_pkgs() methods.

• Steps with tunable arguments now have those arguments listed in the documentation.

• All steps that add new columns will now informatively error if name collision occurs.

embed 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2022-07-02

• step_collapse_cart() can pool a predictor’s factor levels using a tree-based method.

• step_collapse_stringdist() can pool a predictor’s factor levels using string distances.

• Case weights support have been added to step_discretize_cart(), step_discretize_xgb(), step_lencode_bayes(), step_lencode_glm(), and step_lencode_mixed().

embed 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2022-04-13

• step_embed() now correctly defaults to have a random id with the word “embed”. (#102)

• step_feature_hash() is soft deprecated in embed in favor of step_dummy_hash() in textrecipes. (#95)

• Steps now have a dedicated subsection detailing what happens when tidy() is applied. (#105)

• Reorganize documentation for all recipe step tidy methods (#115).

• Fixed a bug where woe_table() and step_woe() didn’t respect the factor levels of the outcome. (109)

embed 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2021-11-24

• Re-licensed package from GPL-2 to MIT. See consent from copyright holders here.

• The tunable parameter ranges for step_umap() were changed for neighbors, num_comp, and min_dist to prevent uwot segmentation faults. The step also check to see if the data dimensions are consistent with the argument values.

• Two new PCA steps were added, each using sparse techniques for estimation: step_pca_sparse() and step_pca_sparse_bayes().

• Updated to use recipes_eval_select() from recipes 0.1.17 (#85).

• Added prefix argument to step_umap() to harmonize with other recipes steps (#93).

• All embed recipe steps now officially support empty selections to be more aligned with recipes, dplyr and other packages that use tidyselect.

• step_woe() no longer warns about high-cardinality predictors when the recipe is estimated. Instead it warns when categories have fewer than 10 data points in the training set. (#74)

embed 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2021-01-16

• Minor release with changes to test for cases when CRAN cannot get xgboost to work on their Solaris configuration.

• lme4 and rstanarm are now in the Suggests list so they are not automatically installed with embed. A message is written to the console if those packages are missing and their associated steps functions are invoked.

embed 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2020-11-12

• More changes to enable better parallel processing on windows.

embed 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2020-10-17

• Changes to enable better parallel processing on windows.

embed 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2020-07-03

• Changes to tests to get out of archive jail.

• Updated the plumbing behind step_woe().

• Due to a bug in tensorflow, added a “warm start” to instigate a TF session if one does not currently exist.

embed 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2020-05-25

• Changes for dplyr 1.0.0

New Steps

• step_discretize_xgb() and step_discretize_cart() can be used to convert numeric predictors to categorical using supervised binning methods based on tree models. Thanks to Konrad Semsch for the contribution.

• Added step_feature_hash() for creating dummy variables using feature hashing.

Breaking Changes

• tidy.step_woe() now has column names consistent with other recipe steps.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in detecting the TF version.

embed 0.0.6

CRAN release: 2020-03-17

• Small changes for base R’s stringsAsFactors change.

embed 0.0.5

CRAN release: 2020-01-07

• The example data are now in the modeldata package.

• Small TF updates to step_embed().

embed 0.0.4

CRAN release: 2019-09-15

• Methods were added for a future generic called tunable(). This outlines which parameters in a step can/could be tuned.

• Small updates to work with different versions of tidyr.

embed 0.0.3

CRAN release: 2019-07-12

New Steps

• step_umap() was added for both supervised and unsupervised encodings.
• step_woe() created weight of evidence encodings.

embed 0.0.2

CRAN release: 2018-11-19

A mostly maintainence release to be compatible with version 0.1.3 of recipes.

Other Changes:

• The package now depends on the generics pacakge to get the broom tidy methods.

• Karim Lahrichi added the ability to use callbacks when fitting tensorflow models. PR

embed 0.0.1

CRAN release: 2018-09-14

First CRAN version