NEWS

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ramify 2025-06-23

Added

• A CHANGELOG.md file to track changes to the package.
• A .Rbuildignore file to ensure a clean package build process.
• Enabled and corrected unit tests for bmat() to ensure its functionality is verified.

Changed

• Migrated all package documentation from standard roxygen2 tags to markdown syntax for improved readability and maintenance.
• Modernized the DESCRIPTION file, adding a VignetteBuilder field to ensure vignettes build correctly and resolving R CMD check warnings.
• "Beefed up" the README.md file with a more comprehensive overview, usage examples, and modern formatting.
• Updated .gitignore with more robust, standard rules for R package development.
• Updated package-level documentation to use the _PACKAGE sentinel, resolving a roxygen2 deprecation warning.

Fixed

• The bmat() function now correctly evaluates matrix objects in the calling environment, resolving a scoping issue that caused testthat failures.
• The mat() function now correctly trims whitespace from parsed values, ensuring proper conversion to numeric type.
• The mat() function now correctly handles whitespace as a separator when sep = "".
• Resolved a CRAN check NOTE by correcting a cross-package link in the matrix_rank() documentation.

ramify 2016-11-20

Fixed

• Fixed a bug in mat.character() where eval = TRUE was not working properly.

ramify 2016-08-27

Changed

• Improved printing of large matrices.
• The mat function can now handle character strings with R expressions (e.g., "rnorm(10)").
• Added a new vignette discussing the package's matrix functionality.

Removed

• Removed dependency on the Matrix package.

ramify 2015-10-26

Added

• Added dmat() for creating data frames and bmat() for creating block matrices.
• Added a number of convenience functions (argmax, argmin, eye, fill, etc.) for users familiar with MATLAB/NumPy.

ramify 2015-06-08

Added

• Initial release of ramify.
• Added mat() function for creating matrices from character strings or lists.
• Added pprint() for pretty-printing large matrices.