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ordinal 2023-12-04

• Change NCOL usage because Kurt Hornik wants to change the behavior of NCOL(NULL) in base R
• Names of functions clm.fit.NR, clm.fit.flex and clm.fit.optim changed to clm_fit_NR, clm_fit_flex and clm_fit_optim to avoid hiccup from CRAN checks.

ordinal 2022-11-13

• Fix function declaration without a prototype in utilityFuns.c per CRAN request.
• Add model.matrix method for clmm-objects.
• Enable evaluation of anova.clmm in separate environments - thanks to Karl Ove Hufthammer for reporting and Jack Taylor for a detailed analysis and suggestion for a fix.
• Allow models with an implicit intercept and only random effects in clmm().
• Fixed index in equation (7) of the clm-vignette.
• Fix import of ranef and VarCorr methods from nlme and lme4 packages

ordinal 2020-08-22

• Fix evaluation of long formulae in clmm - thanks to Stéphane Guillou, Stefan Th. Gries and Tingting Zhan for reporting.

ordinal 2019-12-11

• Get rid of S3 class checks with class() - now using inherits() instead.

ordinal 2019-04-25

• Change in formula evaluation in base R prompts this update - very kindly fixed by Martin Maechler (R core) in PR#18

ordinal 2019-03-09

• Massage tests to check out on R-devel

ordinal 2018-08-25

• Added sign.location and sign.nominal to clm.control()
• Implemented type I, II and III type ANODE tables for clm fits
• Implemented flexible link functions for clm()s
• Added new article submitted to JSS as vignette and moved old vignettes to GitHub

ordinal 2018-04-19

• Fixed insufficient protect in get_fitted
• Registration of native routines (C-code)
• Reduce exec time for clmm examples
• change rBind -> rbind

ordinal 2016-12-12

• Fixing a couple of errors in CLM tutorial vignette
• Correcting description of threshold argument to clmm
• qgumbel did not respect it's lower.tail argument (thanks to John Fox for reporting)
• Test for no. random effects less than the no. observations now gives a warning instead of an error and is now manageable via clmm.control.

ordinal 2015-06-28

• Updating maintainer email address

ordinal 2015-01-21

• Updating Citation information per CRAN request.

ordinal 2014-11-14

• Fixing bug in convergence checking (conv.check) and added test to /tests/test.clm.convergence.R
• Improved the efficiency (i.e. speed) in the evaluation of standard errors for predictions using predict.clm (based on feature request by Thomas Jagger).

ordinal 2014-11-12

• Reimplementation of formula, model.frame and design matrix processing motivated by a bug in model.matrix.clm and predict.clm reported by Russell Lenth 2014-11-07 when implementing lsmeans support for clm::ordinal.

ordinal 2013-10-31

• Now having 'methods' in depends since this is needed to run clmm. This was most likely only a problem when using Rscript where the methods package is not loaded by default.

ordinal 2013-10-01

• Updating convergence checking in clm.fit and simple_clm to the clm standard
• Removing distinction between (non-S3/4) sclm, eclm and clm model classes

ordinal 2013-09-27

• no longer importing numDeriv as we now use our own gradient and hessian functions
• moving Matrix package from Depends to Imports

ordinal 2013-08-27

• documenting list of control parameters in clmm objects.

ordinal 2013-08-26

• registrering global variables.
• removing use of ':::'.

ordinal 2013-08-25

• changing default optimizer from ucminf to nlminb
• adding grad.ctr4 to the list of gradient functions
• explicitly computing the number of objective function evaluations rather than relying on the optimizer's count.
• wrapping calls to optimizers in try() to catch errors that occur here
• adding test for non-finite parameter values in *.ssr objective functions.
• adding list of control parameters to list of clmm output.
• refining test of no. random effects > no. observations.
• removing ucminf control settings from clmm.control when fitting with nlminb.
• fixing bug with C version of NRalgv3 (conditional mode update): Hessian (D) values are now initialized to 1 rather than 0.

ordinal 2013-08-23

• Fixing an issue in the Hessian computation for boundary fits with useMatrix=FALSE and a single scalar random-effects term.
• Allowing control parameters to be passed on to nlminb (when it is used). A bug was fixed in getCtrlArgs and clmm.control now includes method="nlminb".
• Adding test for no. random effects >= no. observations for each r.e. term.

ordinal 2013-08-22

• Exporting S3 print method for convergence.clm objects.

ordinal 2013-07-23

• Newton-Raphson fitting algorithm for CLMs has been redesigned: clm.fit.env is now deprecated (and removed from the code base) and all fitting of CLMs take place in a new version of clm.fit.NR
• Convergence assessment has been improved with a new set of convergence codes and new message handling.
• clm.control has gained several arguments to accommodate this.
• in clm the new function conv.check assess convergence and compute the variance-covariance matrix of the parameters. Thus vcov is always part of a clm object.
• vcov.clm has been redesigned and can now compute the variance-covariance matrix with Cholesky, SVD, EIGEN and QR methods or just grap it from the clm object (default).
• nominal_test and scale_test functions added: they add all terms in a model to nominal and scale formulae respectively and perform likelihood ratio tests. These functions can be helpful in model development and model/GOF testing, e.g. of non-proportional odds.
• Lazy-loading of data enabled.
• MASS moved from Depends to Imports.
• In clm man-page the 'value' list is ordered alphabetically as are the elements in a clm object.
• clmm now computes the variance-covariance matrix with the Cholesky decomposition.
• makeThresholds now take ylevels rather than y as argument.
• clm.control and clmm.control are moved to control.R
• drop.cols has gained argument drop.scale which controls whether columns in the scale design matrix are droped if they are linearly dependent of columns in the nominal design matrix. This was previously implicitly TRUE but is now FALSE to allow fits of certain models.
• The list of control arguments are now storred as part of the clm output.
• weights, offset and S.offset can now be missing or NULL in clm.fit.
• predict.clm now allows type="eta".

ordinal 2013-06-21

• Allowing zero weights in clm even if an entire response category is zeroed out.

ordinal 2013-04-17

• anova.clm and anova.clmm now tests for illegal arguments 'test' and 'type' (wish from Ben Bolker and Jonathan Dushoff)
• introducing convergence code 3 in clm: Thresholds are not increasing, which can happen with nominal effects.

ordinal 2013-04-11

• clm now computes Theta and alpha.mat tables of thresholds and threshold-parameters if nominal effects are specified.

ordinal 2013-04-08

• Allowing zero weights in clm unless there are no observations with a positive weight in one or more response categories.

ordinal 2013-03-20

• Adding symmetric2 threshold function, which restricts the latent mean in the reference group to zero. This means that the central threshold (ylev even) is zero or that the two central thresholds are equal apart from their sign (ylev uneven).

ordinal 2012-09-11

• Using globalVariables() conditional on getRversion() >= '2.15.1'.

ordinal 2012-09-10

• Computing Newton step in clm with solve() rather than .Call("La_dgesv", ...) to accomodate changes in R base.

ordinal 2012-05-29

• Correcting formula interpretation in clm to allow for really long formulas.
• Better evaluation of control arguments in clmm (adjustment of getCtrlAgs).
• Adding clmm.control.R to ./test

ordinal 2012-05-23

• Adding useMatrix argument to clmm.control
• Using getFitted in clm
• Implementing getFittedC in C and updating C code for fit.clmm.ssr with better and faster evaluation of fitted values
• Introduction of links.h, links.c and get_fitted.c in /src

ordinal 2012-05-22

• Better evaluation of fitted probabilities. This should reduce the occurance of the "sqrt(phi2) : NaNs produced" error message.
• Improved evaluation of control parameters in clmm using the new function getCtrlArgs.
• Better warning if intercept is attempted removed in clmm.

ordinal 2012-05-09

• Updated evaluation of formula in clmm, cf. resent update of clm.

ordinal 2012-01-19

• Changed evaluation of formula in clm to make clm more forgiving for evaluation inside other functions.

ordinal 2011-04-21

• Better message from summary.clmm when Hess = FALSE
• endpoint thresholds are now closer to infinity. This is due to a bug report from Ioannis Kosmidis (March 30, 2011); the model estimates weren't right with very large scale effects. Tests are added to testCLM.R
• gradTol in clm.control now defaults to 1e-5 rather than 1e-4. convTol is retained at 1e-4, so we are asking for closer convergence than we require.
• getGnll no longer returns Inf if !all(pr > 0)
• link utility functions are moved from clm.R to linkUtils.R
• extensive testing for NaN-specials in C-code for the link functions is added.
• details section added to clmm.control.Rd with comment about using "central" gradients with the ucminf optimizer.
• examples updated in confint.Rd

ordinal 2010-12-13

• Bug in predict.clm corrected for models with nominal effects and newdata supplied (thanks to Simon Blomberg for the bug report).

ordinal 2010-10-22

• Updated help page for predict.clm/clmm.

ordinal 2010-07-23

• Better descriptions of random effect estimates and fitted values in the clmm help page.

ordinal 2010-07-06

• Bug in predict when 'newdata' was supplied is now corrected.

ordinal 2010-06-12

• Standard Gauss-Hermite quadrature is now available via the nAGQ argument to clmm.
• Core functions implemented in C for speed. This includes all link functions, update of the conditional modes of the random effects, adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature and standard, i.e. non-adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature. Select R or C implementation via the argument doFit to clmm.
• Bug in random effects estimates and their conditional modes corrected.

ordinal 2010-05-17

• Better evaluation in case of non-standard formula usage allowing e.g. clm(data$y ~ data$x).
• Better handling of ill-defined variance-covariance matrix of the parameters in summary methods for clm and clmm objects.

ordinal 2010-05-06

• allowing the formulas to be constructed outside clm and clmm (the formulas are evaluated in the parent frame before the variable names are extracted)

ordinal 2010-04-06

• removing class "clm.fit" from results of finalizeRho.
• moving offset computations from logLik and gradient funtions to newRho function.
• Bug fixed in grad.lambda
• checks and warning messages added to profile.clm
• a warning is now given if the profile fits do not converge
• profile.clm has grown the argument 'stepWarn', which gives a warning if the no. profile steps in each direction (up or down) is less than stepWarn (default 8), which indicates that the profile is unreliable.
• Bug in loglog-link for clmm fits fixed.
• Missing values are handled better in clm and clmm.
• clmm has grown an argument 'sdFixed' which assigns a fixed value of the standard deviation of the random effects. Optimization is performed with respect to the remaining parameters.
• profile.clmm, confint.profile.clmm and plot.profile.clmm are now available. Profiling is restricted to the standard deviation parameter of the random effects.
• control.clm and control.clmm now handles the control parameters.

ordinal 2010.03-04 (2010-03-07)

March 04 2010

• First version of the package is created.