Changes in version 1.2.8-9000                      

Housekeeping

  - Update README: new MRC logo, fixed badges

  - Update GitHub actions workflows

  - Fixed deprecated documentation for joineR-package.R.

  - Added reverse dependency checks.

                 Changes in version 1.2.8 (2023-01-22)                  

Bugs

  - Fixes CRAN CMD check when run using ATLAS (alternative BLAS/LAPACK
    implementation). Issue was in the tests.

                 Changes in version 1.2.7 (2023-01-18)                  

Bugs

  - Fixed bug for case when all subjects experience events.

  - Change to survival::basehaz arguments.

  - Fixed a NOTE on checking for class type.s

Housekeeping

  - Edited NEWS v1.1 entry.

                 Changes in version 1.2.6 (2021-06-01)                  

Bugs

  - Fixed bug for covariates in competing risks models.

Housekeeping

  - Changed package maintainer to Graeme Hickey.

                 Changes in version 1.2.5 (2020-02-08)                  

Bugs

  - Fixed error when ID column was not the first column in the dataset.

                 Changes in version 1.2.4 (2018-05-17)                  

Housekeeping

  - Added Zenodo badge to README.

  - Added further ORCID IDs for authors.

  - Changed package maintainer to Pete Philipson.

                 Changes in version 1.2.3 (2018-02-06)                  

Bugs

  - Fixed errors when subjects IDs were character format.

Housekeeping

  - Added ORCID IDs for authors.

  - Added Depsy badge to README.

                 Changes in version 1.2.2 (2017-09-14)                  

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.

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2017-07-24)                  

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.

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2017-05-19)                  

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.

                         Changes in version 1.1                         

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

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2017-02-02)                  

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.