Changes in version 2.0.3.9000                      

This is a development version

                 Changes in version 2.0.3 (2024-01-15)                  

  - Small documentation fixes for the breaking change:

Using @docType package no longer automatically adds a -package alias.
Instead document _PACKAGE to get all the defaults for package
documentation.

  - Documentation fix for unused arguments in b_samp and betaBlock

  - Update JSS hyperlinks

                 Changes in version 2.0.2 (2021-08-06)                  

Bug fixes

  - Made sure that formulae for SAM, AS and bc correspond to those in
    Cremers, Mulder & Klugkist (2018). Circular interpretation of
    regression coefficients. In previous versions of the package there
    was an error in the computation of SAM, AS and bc causing erroneous
    results.

  - Corrected c++ code of mcmc sampler for intercept-only circular mixed
    effects model to solve error warning in v.2.0.0 and v.2.0.1.

  - Corrected incorrect computation of model fit estimates for circular
    mixed effects models in v.2.0.0 and v.2.0.1.

  - Made sure that the chosen lag is displayed correctly in the output.

                 Changes in version 2.0.1 (2021-03-23)                  

Bug fixes

  - Removed MASS from imports to fix note in the 2.0.0 version

  - Changes in c++ code to solve errors from CRAN valgrind checks in
    the 2.0.0 version.

  - Changed arma::inv_sympd to arma::inv in c++ code to solve errors on
    macOS in the 2.0.0 version.

                 Changes in version 2.0.0 (2021-03-02)                  

Major changes

  - Changed the names of the mcmc output objects. B1, B2, Beta.I,
    Beta.II, B.I, B.II, VCov.I and VCov.II are now named beta1, beta2,
    beta1, beta2, b1, b2, omega1 and omega2 respectively.

  - Functions predict() and residual() were removed.

  - MCMC sampler underlying the bpnme function is rewritten in c++. This
    should significantly increase computational speed.

  - Increased memory efficiency by not storing intermediate objects in
    memory.

  - A vignette containing answers to frequently asked questions about
    usage of the package is included.

Bug fixes

  - Adapted documentation bpnme function such that it clearly states
    only one grouping factor can be used.

  - Made sure that the circular random intercept variance (and circular
    random slope variance of categorical predictors) is computed as 1 -
    mean resultant length. Also updated documentation accordingly.

  - Results for bc, AS and SAM are now also included in degrees if units
    = "degrees" in circ_coef function

  - An error warning in case of any missing values was included.

  - The WAIC criterion in the model fit estimates obtained from the
    fit() function is more correctly referred to as WAIC1.

  - Format of cRS object stored in a bpnme fit object was changed from
    matrix to data.frame to accommodate for data of more than two types,
    e.g. character and numeric.

                 Changes in version 1.0.3 (2020-02-04)                  

  - Deleted arguments from function documentation that are not in
    \usage.

  - Updated references in the packages description.

                 Changes in version 1.0.2 (2019-12-08)                  

  - This version contains an update of code containing the class
    function to make sure the package works with R version 4.0.0

  - The check for the range of the circular outcome was corrected.

                 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2019-11-05)                  

  - The function bpnme can now also handle the standard R data.frame
    instead of only Data Frame Tbl (from dplyr, tbl_df(data))

  - The function coef.bpnr now correctly returns radians instead of
    degrees when option units == "radians" is chosen.

  - The documentation now states that the circular outcome needs to be
    measured in radians.

  - The references in the documentation have been updated.

  - The functions mmr and mmme now give out a warning message when the
    circular outcome is out of range.

  - An error in the assignment of column names in the random effect
    model matrix (in mmme function) was fixed.

  - An error in the check for whether random effects are numeric (in
    bpnme function) was fixed.

  - Several checks and error warnings for wrong specifications of
    nesting structure were added.

  - Internal functions were taken out of the package documentation on
    CRAN.

  - The priors for the (fixed effect) regression coefficients in the
    regression and mixed-effects model are now both N(0, 10000), We also
    note this in the documentation of bpnr() and bpnme().

  - We note the fact that the mixed-effects model is only developed for
    models with one nesting variable in the documentation.

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2018-02-27)                  

  - This is the first version of the package.