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NEWS

Version 4.2.1 Changes 2017-06-10

1. Added a new vignette "Tutorial: Linear weight scaling in cluster analysis".
2. Re-organized manuals and updated documentation.

Version 4.2.0 Changes 2017-05-29

1. Increased log likelihood calculation to long double precision in C++ function weighted_select_levels.cpp.
2. Replaced std::accumulate() function by for-loop addition in C++ function weighted_select_levels.cpp. This resolved a numerical overflow issue when the weight values are large.
3. Now R function plotBIC() automatically adjusts the "k*=" text position, so that the text label is placed entirely within the BIC curve area and will not extend into the figure margin.
4. The cluster size has been changed from integer to double to accomodate weighted cluster size in both R and C++ code.
5. Force any weight vector to be equal weight in new R function Ckmedian.1d.dp.
6. Introduced S3 methods print and plot for Ckmedian.1d.dp and Cksegs.1d.dp objects.

2017-03-18

1. Introduced Cksegs.1d.dp() function for k-segments clustering of y with or without x. Only method="quadratic" guarantees optimality.

2. Expanded k-median clustering to work with all possible methods. Only unweighted solution guarantees optimality.

Version 4.1.0 Changes 2017-03-02

1. Introduced function Ckmedian.1d.dp() for k-median unweighted clustering.

Version 4.0.2 Changes 2017-02-16

1. Fixed symbol encoding used in NEWS.
2. Updated documentation.

Version 4.0.1 Changes 2017-02-16

1. Fixed a warning message in the use of 'R_registerRoutines' and 'R_useDynamicSymbols'.
2. Fixed a memory leak issue: invalid read of size 8.

Version 4.0.0 Changes 2017-02-11

1. Removed some examples for future use.

Version 3.4.15

1. Minor changes.

Version 3.4.14 Changes 2017-01-03

1. Minor changes in documentation files.

2017-01-02

1. Changed package title to "Optimal and Fast Univariate Clustering".

2016-12-27

1. When the input vector x is empty, function Ckmeans.1d.dp now generates a warning message instead of stops on error. Ckmeans.1d.dp.R is modified.
2. Print out appropriate warning messages when input x does not have an appropriate type. ahist.R is modified.

Version 3.4.13 Changes 2016-12-19

1. Revised the comparison function in sorting so that the code can be compiled by C++98, as requested by a user.

2016-12-06

1. Expanded the ahist() function to support weighted adaptive histogram

2016-12-04

1. Expanded the vignette of adaptive histograms to a tutorial.
2. Expanded the vignette of optimal univariate k-means clustering to a tutorial.
3. Update the time course example in Ckmeans.1d.dp function

2016-10-22

1. Added a vignette to visualize examples of adaptive histograms.
2. Added a vignette to visualize examples of optimal univariate k-means clustering.

2016-10-21

1. Added an equal bin width histogram example to contrast with the adaptive histogram.

2016-10-16

1. Moved ahist() function from visualize.R to a new R file ahist.R.

2016-10-15

1. Added a breaks argument to ahist() so as use default graphics::hist() but with the capacity to add sticks to the histogram generated.
2. Added a skip.empty.bin.color argument to ahist() to gain more control over colors of the histogram bars.

2016-10-12

1. Added a data argument to ahist() to provide raw data for visualization.
2. Allow x to ahist() to be an object of the class "Ckmeans.1d.dp" to avoid recomputing the clustering if it has already been done. This requires the data for clustering to be provided via the data argument.

2016-10-11

1. Added an argument add.sticks=TRUE to ahist() to turn on or off the sticks just above the horizontal axis.
2. Added an argument style to ahist() for different styles of adaptive histogram.

2016-10-01

1. Added a new function plot() to visualize the clusters.
2. Added a new function plotBIC() to show the Bayesian information criterion as a function of number of clusters.

2016-09-30

1. Updated examples of ahist().
2. Added sticks to ahist() to show the original input data.

2016-09-27

1. Fixed ahist() when there is only a single bin detected.
2. Made ahist() run much faster than the previous version.
3. Updated previous examples and added more examples to illustrate the use of ahist() better.

2016-09-25

1. Introduced a new function ahist() to generate adaptive histograms corresponding to the optimal univariate k-means clustering.

2016-09-24

1. Known issue: loglinear option may generate optimal clustering different from linear and quadratic.
2. The default k estimation method is updated. Updated number of cluster k estimation. The main difference is when there are duplicates in the data. Otherwise, the estimated k would be the same with previous versions. Added an argument estimate.k in fiction Ckmeans.1d.dp() to use the BIC method in version 3.4.12 or earlier to estimated k for compatibility.

Version 3.4.12 Changes 2016-08-20

1. The weighted univariate k-means now runs in O(kn), down from O(kn^2). This is a result of integrating weighted and unweighted k-means clustering into a unified dynamic programming function without sacrificing performance. This also fixed a bug in the previous loglinear-time weighted k-means implementation.

Version 3.4.9 Changes 2016-07-19

1. If the input array is already sorted, sorting is not performed again.
2. Added an option method to select either the linear or loglinear algorithm.

2016-07-16

1. Implemented linear recursive algorithm based on the method described in (Aggarwal et al., 1987)

Version 3.4.8 Changes 2016-06-01

1. Implemented an iterative O(nlgn+kn) algorithm. This version completely eliminates the involved divide-and-conquer strategy reported in the literature and further reduced the overhead.

   This implementation was later determined to be incorrect.

Version 3.4.7 Changes 2016-05-30

1. Implemented an O(nlgn+kn) algorithm combining divide-and-conquer and dynamic programming. The space is still O(kn). The runtime is now practical for very large sample sizes for any number of clusters.

   This implementation was later determined to be incorrect.

Version 3.4.6 Changes 2016-05-25

1. Implemented an O(kn lg n) algorithm, speeding up the program greatly.

Version 3.4.5 Changes 2016-05-22

1. s[j,i] is now computed in constant time based on pre-computed sums of input x and its squares from 0 to i.

Version 3.4.4 Changes 2016-05-22

1. Incorporated a numerically stable method for computing sample variance when selecting the number of clusters.
2. Improved documentation.
3. Removed a typo in describing time complexity.

2016-05-18

1. Now Ckmeans.1d.dp() function returns "totss", "tot.withinss", and "betweenss" statistics to summarize the optimal clustering obtained.
2. print.Ckmeans.1d.dp() print out the above statistics.

Version 3.4.3 Changes 2016-05-15

1. Upgraded to support c++11
2. Introduced optimal k-means clustering for weighted data

Version 3.4.2 Changes 2016-05-14

1. Implemented backward filling of the dynamic programming matrix to utilize lower bounds for the optimal cluster boundary. This step substantially reduced the runtime by half (two or more times faster).

2016-05-07

1. Implemented mathematically proven tighter ranges when searching for cluster boundaries. The runtime of the function is greatly reduced. Most notably, the runtime is roughly constant when number of clusters increases after k=2.
2. Integrated all test cases into one single file.

Version 3.4.0 Changes 2016-05-07

1. Substantial runtime reduction. Added code to check for an upper bound for the sum of within cluster square distances. This reduced the runtime by half when clustering 100000 points (from standard normal distribution) into 10 clusters.
2. Eliminated the unnecessary calculation of (n-1) elements in the dynamic programming matrix that are not needed for the final result. This resulted in enormous reduction in run time when the number of cluster is 2: assigning one million points into two clusters took half a a second on iMac with 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 processor.
3. Included a reference to the first description of the dynamic programming solution by Richard Bellman (1973).

Version 3.3.3 Changes 2016-05-03

1. Fixed a bug on cluster assignment when there is only one cluster. This was a bug introduced in version 3.3.2.

Version 3.3.2 Changes 2016-05-03

1. Added automatic test cases.
2. Removed an incorrect warning message when the number of clusters is equal to the number of unique elements in the input vector.
3. Changed from 1-based to 0-based C implementation.
4. Optimized the code by reducing overhead. See 22% reduction in runtime to repeatedly cluster seven points into two clusters one million times.

Version 3.3.1 2015-02-10 Changes

1. Fixed a problem that prevented Windows compilation (now forced the size_t type to unsigned long in max() function.

Version 3.3.0 2015-02-09 Changes

1. Added automated test cases into the package.
2. Changed the code to not issue a warning message when the number of clusters is estimated to be 1.
3. When lower bound of the number of clusters is greater than the unique number of elements in the input vector, both the min and max numbers of clusters are set to the number of unique number of input values.
4. When the upper bound of the number of clusters is greater than the unique number of elements in the input vector, the max number of clusters is set to the number of unique elements in the input vector.
5. Use warning() instead of cat() to display warning messages.
6. Incorporate changes suggested by a user to speed up the code.
7. Revised the examples and documentation to improve usability of the package in general.
8. Started the NEWS file.

Version 3.02 2014-03-24 and earlier Changes

1. The program now automatically determines the number of clusters from a given range.
2. The code is optimized for further speedup.

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