NEWS

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catool 1.0.1 (2025-06-11)

Initial release of the catool (Compensation Analysis Tool) R package.

✨ Features

• Calculates overload compensation based on institutional policies and enrollment thresholds
• Applies proration logic for courses with low enrollment (default: 4–9 students)
• Identifies qualified credit hours exceeding the regular teaching load (default: 12 hours)
• Returns detailed, instructor-level summaries with total compensation
• Supports batch summaries across all instructors
• Offers flexible filtering by subject, instructor, department, or division
• Produces tidy, export-ready tibbles for audits and administrative reporting
• Includes a full walkthrough vignette (catool-walkthrough) explaining policy logic and usage examples

📦 Infrastructure

• Fully documented with roxygen2; all exported functions include runnable examples
• Tested on Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, and macOS platforms
• Unit tests included (via testthat)
• GitHub Actions CI setup for multi-platform testing
• Licensed under AGPL-3