joineR 1.2.2

Minor update

Modified the control parameters for the call to nlme::lme() that is used to generate initial parameter estimates. In some bootstrap settings, this was throwing an error, leading to the entire bootstrap run to cease.

Housekeeping

Added hex sticker badge.

joineR 1.2.1

Minor updates

Added Rd file for joint.object to describe what is contained in an object of class joint.
Added the ubiquitous aids dataset for teaching purposes.

Bugs

Fixed an error in the liver dataset.

Maintanence

Updated the documentation for the datasets.
Added ByteCompile: true to the DESCRIPTION.

joineR 1.2.0

Major updates

joint now allows for competing risks data (2 failure types) as per the model developed by Williamson et al. (2008). Other functions have been upgraded to handle the competing risks data.
A second vignette for the competing risks model is available.

Minor updates

R version 3.4.0 deprecated the recycling of 1x1 matrices, and led to warnings being thrown. This is now fixed.

Maintanence

General code and documentation tidy-up.
New unit tests added to increase code coverage.

joineR 1.1.0

Minor updates

Add simjoint function to simulate data from joint models with several types of association structures.
Removed jlike function and integrated likelihood calculation directly into em.alg function.
Minor bug fixes to the joint and em.alg functions.

Maintanence

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Added some unit tests + code coverage monitoring integration.
Converted Rd files to roxygen.
Converted Sweave vignette to rmarkdown.
Updates to vignette and documentation.
Minor updates to DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE to pass R CMD checks, provide additional information, and removed dependency of boot and gdata packages.
Added a README.Rmd.
Added project to GitHub with integrated Travis CI and appveyor.

joineR <1.1

First version of software with subsequent minor patches. No NEWS file was maintained prior to version 1.1