NEWS file for the libcoin package

Changes in Version 1.0-12 (2026-03-16)

• PROTECT calls to getAttrib as adviced by rchk.

Changes in Version 1.0-11 (2026-03-06)

• Use ‘REFERENCES.bib’.

Changes in Version 1.0-10 (2023-09-26)

• Add Henric Winell as author.

• Enable STRICT_R_HEADERS.

• The nuweb source code is now included (see ‘../inst/nuweb/’).

• Documentation updates.

Changes in Version 1.0-9 (2021-09-27)

• R_MPinv_sym can now determine the full dimension of the packed input x by setting n to 0L.

• Add #define USE_FC_LEN_T to header as requested by CRAN 2021-09-25.

Changes in Version 1.0-8 (2021-02-08)

• Fix LaTeX problem.

Changes in Version 1.0-7 (2021-01-15)

• Correct spelling in error message.

• Regression tests updated for coin 1.4-0.

Changes in Version 1.0-6 (2020-08-13)

• Interface to S_rcont2 changed in stats, thanks to Martin Maechler for a fix.

• New C function R_pack_sym for transforming a symmetric matrix to lower-packed storage mode.

Changes in Version 1.0-5 (2019-08-22)

• New C function R_unpack_sym for unpacking a symmetric matrix stored in lower-packed storage mode.

• New C functions R_quadform and R_MPinv_sym providing interfaces to the internal functions C_quadform and C_MPinv_sym.

• Function libcoin_StandardisePermutedLinearStatistic was renamed to libcoin_R_StandardisePermutedLinearStatistic.

• Documentation updates.

Changes in Version 1.0-4 (2019-02-28)

• Bugfix in regression tests.

Changes in Version 1.0-3 (2019-02-18)

• Parts of the covariance matrix were not set to zero initially.

Changes in Version 1.0-2 (2018-12-13)

• Maximally selected statistics failed for large sample sizes because of unnecessary memory allocation. Report and fix by Joanidis Kristoforos.

• Some additional checks for integer overflow.

Changes in Version 1.0-1 (2017-12-13)

• Make valgrind happy.

Changes in Version 1.0-0 (2017-12-12)

• Make the package truly literate; there is one single nuweb file called ‘libcoin.w’ which generates the complete package.

• The package can now deal with long vectors.

Changes in Version 0.9-3 (2017-07-02)

• Remove copy of rcont2 from the stats package as it is exported now.

Changes in Version 0.9-2 (2017-04-04)

• Fix protect problem in R_MaximumTest reported by Tomas Kalibera.

Changes in Version 0.9-1 (2017-02-06)

• Calling libcoin's C routines (using .Call()) now requires the entry points to be specified as R objects, i.e., the use of character strings is no longer allowed.

• Stop when all observations are missing.

• 2d case with missings in at least one variable used incorrect sample sizes and thus produced wrong results.

Changes in Version 0.9-0 (2016-12-09)

• libcoin published on CRAN.