[R-sig-Epi] Epi 1.1.65 released

[BXC (Bendix Carstensen)]

Dear list members,

There is now a new version of the Epi package on CRAN, version 1.1.65, replacing 1.1.49. There have been quite a bit of changes and fixed since last version on CRAN, see below. None however that will render previous uses of functions invalid.

Upgrade recommended.

Best regards,
Bendix
Epi-package maintainer
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Bendix Carstensen 
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Clinical Epidemiology
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List of changes since 1.1.45
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Changes in 1.1.65

o Despite the note, dropped rows from construction of a Lexis objects
  were not put in the "dropped" attribute.

Changes in 1.1.64

o Fixed the sim-Lexis vignette

Changes in 1.1.64

o Added function ZArray, which generates an array of 0s just as NArray
  generates an array of NAs.

o Updated code to avoid "::" and ":::" as far as possible, as well as
  "<<-". Hence excluded records from construction of a Lexis object is
  now put in an attribute "dropped" of the Lexis object.

Changes in 1.1.62

o Bug fix in the example code for boxes.Lexis

Changes in 1.1.61

o ci.lin updated to recognize objects of class "lmerMod" from lmer.

Changes in 1.1.60

o Documentation for DMlate updated.

Changes in 1.1.59

o boxes.Lexis updated so that also no. of beginners and enders are
  properly formatted if larger than 999

Changes in 1.1.57

o boxes.Lexis updated with arguments show.BE and BE.pre, allowing
  annotation of boxes by the *number* of persons starting and ending
  in different states.

Changes in 1.1.57

o simLexis substantially updated and groomed to accept Cox-models for
  transitions too. Example in the documentation and vignette is
  expanded accordingly.

Changes in 1.1.56

o Typos in documentation corrected.

o When records with too short follow-up are encountered by Lexis, they
  are dropped from the resulting object, but they will be availabe in
  the object drop.sh in the global environment.

o The col and border arguments to plot.pState were not repeated
  automatically, so needed fixing.

o More elaborate warning and error-messages if initiators in absorbing
  states are handed to simLexis.

Changes in 1.1.55

o Documentation of clogistic is clarified w.r.t. likelihood
  contributions of matched sets.

Changes in 1.1.54

o apc.fit updated to use the Ns wrapper, and automatically use knots
  located so that the marginal number of events is the same between
  knots.

o plot.apc and lines.apc defined as methods for apc objects. They are
  just wrappers for apc.plot and apc.lines.

o gen.exp example slightly modified to give better output.

Changes in 1.1.53

o Population figures in N.dk, M.dk and Y.dk updated

Changes in 1.1.52

o col.txt argument to plotEst was not working properly. Fixed

o txt argument to plotEst can now be an expression vector allowing
  sub- and superscripts and mathematical expressions.

o Relevel did not issue warning or error when a given level was being
  specified as member of more than one new level. It now stops with an
  error.

o The convenience wrappers Ns (for ns) and NArray (for array) have
  been added

Changes in 1.1.51

o boxes.Lexis fixed so that rates could be computed from matrix input
  to.

Changes in 1.1.50

o Calculation of p-values in ci.lin has been modified, thanks to
  Krista Fischer.

Changes in 1.1.49

o Default of "border" argument to plot.pState changed to "transparent"

Changes in 1.1.48

o Slight tidying of code in apc.fit. Automatic determination of
  reference points for period and cohort fixed to produce median
  correctly.

Changes in 1.1.47

o Bug in simLexis (specifically in Epi:::simX) where factor levels
  were wrongly used, is now corrected. Versions earlier are likely to
  produce wrong state allocation in simulated dataset and not crash.

Changes in 1.1.46

o lex.id handling in simLexis changed, allows for easier simulation in
  chunks which may be necessary to avoid memory problems.

Changes in 1.1.45

o simLexis introduced. Allows simulation from multiple timescale
  mulitste models. Accompanying utilities supplied too: pr.Lexis, prev
  and plot.prev.