AnthropMMD 4.1.0 (Release date: 2025-10-21)

• In the user-interface, the “significance” of MMDs are now decided using Sjovold’s rule-of-thumb (the MMD value must be greater than twice its standard deviation). The p-values are not used for that purpose anymore, since their validity is still highly discussed in the literature, and relies on often unrealistic hypotheses.
• In the same spirit, p-values have now been totally removed from the package. {AnthropMMD} now only provides ratios MMD/sd(MMD), as in Bertsatos’ Octave script (see Bertsatos & Chovalopoulou, 2016).

Other minor changes

• More unit tests have been added, and some unit tests have been rewritten.
• A codemeta.json file has been added to provide a better structure for the package’s metadata.

AnthropMMD 4.0.3 (Release date: 2023-11-29)

Other changes

• Fixed man page of package (version mismatch)
• New reference added in man pages

AnthropMMD 4.0.2 (Release date: 2023-07-28)

Other changes

• Fixed encoding of LICENSE file.

AnthropMMD 4.0.1 (Release date: 2023-06-15)

Bug fix

• The internal function mmd_resample() now handles edge cases where resampling problems could arise.
• Fixed formula for the computation of sample sizes in mmd_resample().

AnthropMMD 4.0.0 (Release date: 2023-03-06)

Requirements

• AnthropMMD now depends on R >= 4.1.0.
• New dependencies on third-party R packages ({dplyr}, {MASS}, {rlang}) have been added.

New features

• The function mmd() now has another argument, correct (which defaults to TRUE), which allows the user to specify whether the correction for small sample sizes should be applied.
• A bootstrap method described by Fidalgo et al. (2022) is now available through the function mmd_boot(). It can be used from the command line interface only; its implemention in the graphical user interface is not planned (at least in a near future).

Other changes

• The code of various functions (in particular binary_to_table()) has been refactored, and should now run faster.
• Updated package vignette.

AnthropMMD 3.1.0 (Release date: 2020-07-17)

Incompatible changes in the API

• A new generic function, plot(), is added. It replaces plot_mmd(). The old plot_mmd() is not exported anymore.

New features

• p-values are now implemented in mmd().

Other changes

• Improved code readability.

AnthropMMD 3.0.1 (Release date: 2019-07-16)

Minor changes

• Fixed warning when the angular transformation is not specified in mmd() function.
• Fixed typos in package vignette and documentation files.

AnthropMMD 3.0.0 (Release date: 2019-07-05)

Change in dependencies

• Due to some new features implemented in AnthropMMD, the package now depends on R >= 3.5.0.
• AnthropMMD now imports {plotrix}.
• AnthropMMD now suggests {covr}, {knitr}, {rmarkdown} and {testthat}.

Change of License

• AnthropMMD is now distributed under CeCILL 2.1 license (instead of GPL 3).

User visible changes

• AnthropMMD can now be used by command lines, and not only as an R-shiny application. The main goal is to make AnthropMMD suitable for reproducible research.
• An example data file, toyMMD, is now available.
• A vignette is now available.
• Improved display of group labels on the MDS plots.
• Some small improvements in documentation files.

Other changes

• A large majority of comments in the R source files have been translated from French into English.
• The reliability of future updates has been improved by implementing unit tests; and a CI pipeline has been set on the GitLab repo.
• The indentation style in .R and .Rd files now follows the R standards.

Bug fixes

• The Shiny app does not crash anymore if the user specifies a wrong field separator.
• Fix for the computation of Spearman’s measure of agreement for MDS, where distances were erroneously counted twice. Although the impact was generally negligible, this resulted in a small overestimation of the quality of agreement.

AnthropMMD 2.5.3 (Release date: 2019-03-18)

• First release on GitLab
• Added LICENSE, NEWS and README files
• Change of GPL license (GPL3 instead of GPL2)
• Updated DESCRIPTION file