NEWS
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.