News

cgraph 4.0.1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an bug that caused an error when installing cgraph on R versions before 3.5.
• Function 'cg_session_set_graph' no longer prints NULL to the console when the active graph is changed.
• Operator cg_sigmoid now works correctly when argument x is a logical or integer vector or array.

cgraph 4.0.0

Comments:

• The C-API has been completely reworked.
• The R6 class cgraph is removed. To create a new computational graph, use function cg_graph instead.
• Method get_parms and add_parms are no longer available.
• Method active is no longer available. The active graph can now be retrieved and changed by function cg_session_graph and cg_session_set_graph respectively.
• Method adj_mat is no longer available.
• Function const, input, parm, and opr have been renamed to cg_constant, cg_input, cg_parameter, and cg_operator respectively.
• Function val and set are removed. The value of a constant or parameter node can be changed directly by calling x$value where x is the environment of a cg_node object.
• Function run and gradients have been renamed to cg_graph_run and cg_graph_gradients respectively.

Features:

• The function that is called by an operator node is no longer stored as a symbol in the environment of the operator. Instead, each function now has its own global cg_function object which can be linked to an operator node. This significantly reduces the size of a cg_graph object.

Documentation:

• Package R6 has been removed from the Imports section in the package description.
• Package Rgraphviz has been removed from the Suggests section in the package description.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused a node to be evaluated to its corresponding cg_node environment rather than its value when calling cg_graph_run and cg_graph_gradients.
• Fixed a bug that caused a segfault when calling function cg_graph_run and cg_graph_gradients on a cg_graph object which contains nodes with an invalid id.

cgraph 3.0.1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused S3 methods called by the graph operators to dispatch incorrectly on R versions before 3.5.

cgraph 3.0.0

Comments:

• Large parts of the C-API have been reworked.
• Some naming conventions have changed. Individual names in the name of a function are now separated with an underscore (_) instead of a dot (.). For example, operator cg.matmul is now named cg_matmul. The same rule applies to class names. For example, class cg.node is now named cg_node.
• Function name is removed. Names for nodes are now generated internally in the C-API.
• Function approx.gradients is removed. A simliar function is still available as cgraph:::approx_grad in the package namespace. However, it should be noted that this function is not well-optimized and should only be used for testing purposes.
• Calling print on a cg_node object no longer prints the value of the node. Use function val to evaluate a node.

Features:

• The initialization method of a cgraph object has a new argument library which can be used to specify which function library the graph uses.
• The calls of functions and their corresponding gradient functions are now build at run-time. This potentially allows operators to accept a variable number of arguments.
• Added function val and set to retrieve or set the value of a node respectively.
• A node can now also be named 'grad'. 'grad' is no longer a reserved word.
• Operator cg_mean now calls the base mean function.
• Operator cg_crossprod and cg_tcrossprod now allow argument y to be missing (similarly as the corresponding base functions).
• Argument dim of operator cg_reshape now expects an cg_node object instead of an integer scalar or vector that holds the new array dimensions.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused a segfault when using cgraph in RStudio on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

cgraph 2.0.3

Comments:

• The S3 overloaded methods of prefix operators have been marked as deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Only infix operators like + or - will have S3 overloaded methods.

Bug fixes:

• Operator sigmoid now correctly handles numerical underflow.
• Operator cg.pmax and cg.pmin are now correctly differentiated when argument x and y are both arrays.

Features:

• Added logical operators !, ==, !=, <, >, <=, and >=.

cgraph 2.0.2

Documentation:

• The documentation of function const, input, parm, and opr now correctly states that argument name must be a character scalar (not a symbol).

Bug fixes:

• Nodes that are given a value upon creation are now properly printed to the R console.
• Function run, gradients, and approx.grad no longer cause an infinite loop when member values of a cgraph object is supplied to the values argument of the functions.
• Fixed protection bug in function gradients which caused the R session to crash unexpectedly.
• Function approx.grad now checks whether node x and y evaluate to a numeric vector or array.
• Function approx.grad no longer changes the parent environment of argument values when the argument is an environment.

cgraph 2.0.1

Bug fixes:

• Function run and gradients no longer change the parent environment of argument values when the argument is an environment.
• Function name no longer generates a name that indicates the node type for performance reasons. Instead, it simply generates the name 'node' followed by the number of nodes that have been added to the graph.
• Fixed several protection bugs in the C-API thanks to rchk.

cgraph 2.0.0

Comments:

• The license of the package has changed from GPL-3 to Apache License 2.0.

Features:

• Added hyperbolic trigonometry operations sinh and cosh.
• Added inverse hyperbolic trigonometry operations asinh and acosh.
• The elements of member nodes of a cgraph object are now named to allow more convenient access to the symbols of the nodes in a graph.
• You can now instruct the active graph to no longer automatically evaluate a node when it is printed to the console by setting options(cg.autorun = FALSE).

Documentation:

• Removed collate field in package description as it is no longer needed.

Bug fixes:

• Improved error handling. An error is now raised when an invalid object is provided to the methods of a cgraph object instead of trying to coerce the object to a valid object.
• Function opr now ignores argument grads when its elements are not properly named.
• Function run now checks whether each node evaluates to a numeric vector or array.
• Function gradients now checks whether the node supplied to argument name evaluates to a numeric vector or array.
• Function get.parms and add.parms now correctly call the underlying C-API.

cgraph 1.0.1

Comments:

• CRAN Review on the cgraph 1.0.0 submission.

Documentation:

• Improved the package title and description.
• Added RGraphviz to suggests.
• Added examples to the documentation of the most important methods of a cgraph object and their corresponding wrapper functions.

cgraph 1.0.0

Comments:

• CRAN Submission.

Reference manual