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0.10.5 (6 January 2016)

• Update plot.HydeNetwork to accommodate changes in DiagrammeR.

0.10.4 (1 April 2016)

• Added methods for survreg models. The predicted value returned is the predicted survival time.
• Made changes to unit tests to accommodate new version of testthat
• Replaced dependency on ArgumentCheck to checkmate
• Code formatting changes.

0.10.3 (18 January 2016)

• Added dependency to pixiedust to allow better parsing of term names. This also resulted in removing the dependency on broom (which is alright, because pixiedust depends on broom.

0.10.2 (13 November 2015)

• Expanded options for specifying policy matrices (per Issue #95)

0.10.1 (30 October 2015)

• Corrected a serious bug in how character values were handled in the data argument of compileDecisionModel.
• Adds factorFormula to assist in writing formulae that make use of factor levels instead of their numeric codes.
• Deterministic nodes are now represented as diamonds by default.

0.10.0 (26 Sept 2015)

• Implements the factorLevels element in network objects and arguments in setNode. See Issue #81
• Changes to plot.HydeNetwork relevant to changes in DiagrammeR 0.8.0. Note that the column names in custom node data frames no longer contain node_id but use nodes instead. However, the HydeNet function arguments have no changed names, in order to maintain compatibility with 0.9.0. Future versions may allow for either node_id or nodes to be used. In custom edge data frames, edge_from and edge_to are changed to from and to, respectively.

0.9.3 (24 Sept 2015)

• Minor bug fix related to creating policy matrices with nodes that don't have a 'nodeFitter' specified.

0.9.2 (11 Sept 2015)

• Fixed a bug in compileJagsModel and compileDecisionModel that prevented cpt objects from being passed to JAGS models correctly.
• Added nodeData argument to setNode.
• Added unit tests.

0.9.1 (6 July 2015)

• Conversion of argument checks to using the ArgumentCheck package
• Connections are closed in compileDecisionModel. This allows decision networks to be compiled for absurdly large policy matrices (> 1000 policies)

0.9.0 (2 July 2015)

• Added imports from utils and stats to comply with new CRAN policies.
• Adds the functionality to allow all nodeType specifications to properly build in writeJagsModel. (See Issue #72)
• Incremented to version 0.9.0 for CRAN release.

0.8.11 (26 June 2015)

• Fixed a bug preventing cpt arrays from being passed to jags.model in compileDecisionModel
• Fixed a bug preventing bernoulli values from being passed to cpt arrays in the JAGS models.

0.8.10 (19 June 2015)

• Streamlined the generation of the factorRef element of the compiled Hyde Networks.
  This also allows all data frames in all nodes to be included to generate a complete list of factors throughout the network (previously, it only generated references for factors in the overall data element, not the nodeData elements.

0.8.9 (16 June 2015)

• Incorporated minor changes for compatibility with DiagrammeR 0.7
• Minor bug fix to mergeCustomNodes to prevent loss of custom settings
• Minor changes to HydeNetPlots vignette
• Minor changes to GettingStartedWithHydeNet vignette.
• Removed ObtainingPosteriorDistributions vignette.
• Added VignetteBuilder option to the description file. For now, when reinstalling the package, use the command devtools::install_local([directory]). If you try to build the vignettes with the package, a strange error occurs that prevents the installation. This error is related to the WorkingWithHydeNetObjects vignette, but I can't reproduce the error outside of the build command.

0.8.8 (5 June 2015)

• setNodeModel and writeJagsFormula methods are complete.
• writeJagsModel now accommodates cpt objects
• compileJagsNetwork retrieves cpt objects to include in the data argument, allowing JAGS to compile without the user having to remember to assign the cpt object to the data.

0.8.7 (29 May 2015)

• cpt function is added to assist in developing multidimensional conditional probability tables. cpt and cptInput are generics with methods for list and formula. Their structure is undergoing some growing pains right now, so expect more changes in the future.
• Improvements to setNode validation.
• Improvements to efficiency of compileDecisionModel.
• Consolidated all data documentation into a single file.
• HydeNetwork chooses cpt as the fitter for variables where the node is a factor and all parents are factors.
• Added modelToNode.cpt. This is untested as of yet and may be buggy. Final changes are pending the finalization of the cpt objects.

0.8.6 (15 May 2015)

• An additional function called nodeFromFormula is used to generate most likely node names from terms in model formulas that are used in functions and other transformations. For instance, when a formula has factor(x), only the x is used in node names. (Solves Issue #31)
• A new, unexported function called matchVars is used to reduce terms in model formulas to just the node name. (Solves Issue #26)
• An additional argument is used in writeJagsModel and modelToNode that is required by an unexported function matchVars.
• Changed behavior of setNode to retain current settings for decision and utility nodes (Issue #53)
• Added a message to indicate that character strings defining parameters in setNode are not validated (Issue #24).
• Updated BlackJack network object to be consistent with the object defined in the Decision Nodes vignette.
• Now Imports on broom (>= 0.3.7). This makes sure that the multinom tidiers are available.

0.8.5 (7 May 2015)

• Moved gRbase from Depends: to Imports:
• Repaired a bug in plot.HydeNetwork that prevented plotting without defaults
• Updated the HydeNetPlots vignette to accommodate new plotting features.

0.8.4 (3 May 2015)

• Revamped plotting utilities to make use of the DiagrammeR package. This makes the full range of GraphViz available for use.

0.8.3 (2 May 2015)

• Implemented policy matrices into compileDecisionModel and fixed all the bugs that popped up in doing so.
• Changed the name of the Black Jack training data from bjdata to BlackJackTrain. Added documentation for it.
• Completed Documentation.

0.8.2 (1 May 2015)

• Adds functionality to customize plot defaults.
• Adds functionality to customize nodes in plots.
• Added the BlackJack data object, which contains a HydeNetwork object simulating a game of black jack.
• Included a vignette showing off the use of plotting methods.

0.8.1 (25 April 2015)

• Fixes Issue #10 dealing with utility nodes not being properly initialized and set.

0.8.0 (24 April 2015)

• Added a new dependency on package dplyr and magrittr. This was done to make dplyr available for joining MCMC matrices returned by coda.samples.
• Modified compileJagsModel to accommodate compiling multiple JAGS models when a policy/decision matrix is provided.
• Added the function HydePosterior, which generates posterior distributions of all of the JAGS models compiled by HydePosterior.
• Added a print function for the output of HydePosterior
• Added a function to bind all of the MCMC output from HydePosterior into a single data frame.
• Addressed a bug in compileJagsModel that affected observed data values. (Issue #36 on GitHub).
• Addressed a bug in modelToNode that printed the node name in the first parameter, causing compileJagsModel to fail. (Issue #35 on GitHub).

0.7.2 (10 April 2015)

• The primary additions to this developmental change are the addition of decision nodes. Each node now has a new descriptor (found in network$nodeDecision. It is a logical value indicating if the node should be considered a decision node.
• The behavior of decision nodes is exactly like all other nodes in every respect until you call the compileDecisionNetwork function.
  compileDecisionNetwork evaluates all of the decision nodes, builds a table of all combinations of decision options, and systematically runs compileJagsModel for each row of that table to create a JAGS model for each combination of decisions.
• Decision nodes can be defined in setNode, but for convenience, a new function is introduced (setDecisionNodes) to allow multiple nodes to be defined as decision nodes in one call. This is intended for use when a list of models is used to define a network.
• Various bugs have been corrected that were uncovered while testing conditional logic nodes (this is not a formal feature of HydeNet, but can be done. A vignette describing their use will be built later)
• Additional bugs have been corrected while uncovered during the testing of decision node features.

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