NEWS

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LocalControl 1.1.4 (2024-09-04)

Minor changes

• Removed dependency of unmaintained TeachingDemos package for vignette.
• Fixed DESCRIPTION to point to GitHub repository for code and issues.
• Fixed other minor CRAN warnings.

LocalControl 1.1.3 (2022-05-20)

Minor changes

• Updated vignette to the PDF matching the published Journal of Statistical Software manuscript, shrinking file size.

LocalControl 1.1.2.2 (2020-11-26)

Minor changes

• Added citation file and doi for vignette's JSS publication.

LocalControl 1.1.2 (2019-02-24)

Minor changes

• Fixed a bug causing survival confidence intervals to be incorrect.
• Updated vignette to match JSS requests.
• Changed cardSim data to match the new simulation in the vignette.

LocalControl 1.1.1 (2018-06-02)

Major changes

• Added vignette

Minor changes

• Added default value (NULL) to modelForm argument (LocalControl())

LocalControl 1.1.0 (2017-11-22)

Major changes

• Deprecated the localControlCompetingRisks(), localControlNearestNeighbors(), and (hidden) doLocalControl() functions.

• Added a new function in their place, LocalControl().

• The behavior of the three removed functions now exists in this function.

• The new “outcomeType” parameter allows users to toggle between the competingRisks and NearestNeighbors functionality.

• Deprecated the plotLocalControlCIF and plotLocalControlLTD functions, replaced with s3 (plot()) functions.

• Added S3 functions: print() and summary() have also been added for the LocalControl classes.

• Changed the structure of the LocalControlCS and LocalControlCR objects.

• Removed the summary object.

• The summary is now created upon request using the summary() s3 function with the LocalControl classes.

• Added a formula interface for LocalControl (beta).

  LocalControl(data = lindner, modelForm = formula('cardbill ~ abcix | stent + female + acutemi'))

  Is now a valid alternative to:

  LocalControl( data = lindner, clusterVars = c("stent", "female", "acutemi"), treatmentColName = "abcix", outcomeColName = "cardbill")

LocalControl 1.0.1 (2017-06-03)

Minor changes

• Changed required R version from R (>= 2.10) to R (>= 3.0.0), due to Rcpp dependency.
• Updated title field in DESCRIPTION file to remove redundancies.
• Added Apache Version 2.0 LICENSE file.

Bug fixes

• Fixed warning: variable length arrays are a C99 feature.