NEWS

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simPop 2.1.2 (2022-11-07)

• use 'partykit::ctree()' and 'partykit::cforest()' addressing issue #22

simPop 2.1.1 (2022-10-26)

• warning in updateVec.cpp resolved

simPop 2.1.0 (2022-10-10)

• ipu2 is now removed and available in package surveysd

simPop 1.2.0 (2019-07-18)

• simRelation now works with sp-called basic variables
• the function ipu2 is only a wrapper to surveysd::ipf and set as deprecated

simPop 0.6.2

• Updated function simInitSpatial (it now works with household and/or person counts per subregion)
• Moved repo to https://github.com/statistikat/simPop from previous private git repo

simPop 0.5.0

• The modified whipple index is now computed correctly
• Weighting is now available directly in the whipple function
• ranger is available in simCategorical

simPop 0.3.0 (2016-02-20)

• new function ipu2 (more flexible variant for ipu, still in development)
• new function kishFactor (computation of the Kish factor for sample weights)
• new functions correctHeaps and correctSimpleHeap for dealing with age heaping
• new methods for simContinous and simCateogrical
• simStructure can now deal with populations as input

simPop 0.2.15 (2015-09-30)

• Improvements in samp() and pop(). If argument 'var' is NULL (default), the complete dataset is returned.

simPop 0.2.14

• Warn the user about missing values in variables used in the model in simContinuous()
• additional argument *imputeMissings* (default=FALSE) in simContinuous()
• do not impute missing variables in population data

simPop 0.2.13 (2015-09-21)

• bug in simContinuous solved
• simStructure now works also when no stratification variable is specified

simPop 0.2.12 (2015-08-31)

• adding some utility functions for the sga-project that are not exported
• improve simContinuous() in order to allow to specify the model that should be used for estimation.
• improve simCategorical() in order to allow to specify the model that should be used for estimation.
• problem fixed for missing values in variables not used for modelling.

simPop 0.2.11

• new methods samp, samp<-,pop,and pop<- to extract/modify variables in sample/population on a simPopObj
• adjust manageSimPopObj() to use these methods

simPop 0.2.10

• improvements in simContinous(): new parameters 'byHousehold' and 'basicOnly'

simPop 0.2.9 (2015-01-26)

• manageSynthPopObj to manageSimPopObj
• bug in calibPop.cpp solved (segmentation fault)

simPop 0.2.8

• random numbers in C++ instead of using R

simPop 0.2.6 (2014-11-18)

• fix clang-compiler warning

simPop 0.2.5

• multiple fixes and performance improvements

simPop 0.2.4

• feature: generate colored mosaic plots in spMosaic()
• fix: missing argument and code-mismatch in simRelation()

simPop 0.2.3

• fix in simContinuous() reported by Oliver

simPop 0.2.2

• new parameter 'nr_cpus' for calibPop(), simCategorical(), simContinuous() and simRelation() manually defining how many cpus should be used
• updated man-pages
• new helper-function 'parallelParameters()' returing a list with parameters 'have_win', 'parallel' and 'nr_cores'
• fixed a bug in simCategorical if only one additional variable is simulated

simPop 0.2.1

• fixed a bug in simContinuous (win only) reported by olivier.

simPop 0.2.0

• version drop for final delivery

simPop 0.1.9

• allow more userfriendly input for calibSample()
• calibSample() can be applied to objects of class 'simPopObj'
• updated example for ipu
• whipple index (original and modified) included
• sprague index included
• simInitSpatial() to generate districts from a broader region
• dataObj-methods for covWt() and corWt()
• dataObj-methods for meanWt() and varWt()
• method addWeights<- to modify sampling weights based on output from calibSample()
• dataObj-method for quantileWt()
• updated default parameters for calibPop(). Previous choices for starting temperature were much to high and too many worse solution were accepted.
• fixed example for calibPop()
• new accessor/set functions sampleData, sampleObj, sampleObj<-, popData, popObj, popObj<-, tableObj with updated man-page

simPop 0.1.8

• remove S3-class spBwplot() -> only default method was implemented. Removed option to supply a list of populations; rewritten to use 'simPopObj'-objects
• fixed man files for spBwplot() and spBwplotStats()
• updated calibPop() so that the function uses and returns objects of class 'simPopObj'
• auxData()-methods to query/set 'sample' slot in 'simPopObj'-objects

simPop 0.1.7

• parallel-computing on windows-platforms using doParallel-package
• removed spTable.formula method (did not work correctly, anyway)
• parallel processing on windows using doParallel-package and foreach with %dopar%
• fixed a problem in calibPop.cpp where export of params-object in a list was not done correctly
• refactorization of calibPop.R to allow parallel computing

simPop 0.1.6

• removed method 'ctree' from simCategorical() -> perhaps add it later
• removed argument 'basic' from simCategorical(). The function now uses variables listed in slot @basicHHvars of the input object of class 'simPopObj'.
• made check that slot basicHHvars after simStructure() contains at least one variable.
• new utility-function manageSynthPopObj() to get/set variables in objects of class 'simPopObj'
• updated a lot of Rd-Files with (now) working examples
• updated simEUSILC()

simPop 0.1.5

• combined classes 'sampleObj' and 'popObj' into 'dataObj'
• renamed specify_sample() to specifyInput()
• adjusted NAMESPACE files, documentation and functions to reflect these changes
• Parallelization of simContinous() on non-windows platforms
• porting simContinous() to use new class 'simPopObj' as input

simPop 0.1.4

• starting to use new classes 'sampleObj', 'popObj' and 'simPopObj' for the entire package
• various fixes and improvements such as a new c++ implementation of calibVars()
• cleanup dependencies in DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE
• remove method 'liblinear' from simCategorical() - has never really worked

simPop 0.1.3

• parallelize simRelevation() on non-windows platforms
• c++ algorithm for simulated annealing in calibPop()
• multiple commits to fix documentation and cran-notes/warnings when checking

simPop 0.1.2

• temporarily add explicit parallel-option to calibPop() for testing-purposes
• more efficient implementation of auxiliary-function resample() used in calibPop()
• changed default setting for auxiliary-variable 'factor' in calibPop() which now allows the algorithm to terminate in an accceptable time
• added R/zzz.R to get current package version on loading the package

simPop 0.1.1

• more efficient c++ implementation of iterative proportional updating
• multiple imports from package simPopulation
• reorganizations (simAnnealing -> simPop,...)

simPop 0.1.0

• code largely based on version 0.4.1 of simPopulation
• use package parallel if possible for some functions (non-windows platforms)
• first version of simulated annealing
• first (very rough) version of IPU (iterative proportional updating)
• remove vignette from simPopulation
• update Citation
• new methods for simCategorical (naivebayes, ctree and liblinear)