News for R Package sfsmisc

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-22 [2025-08-30]

NEW FEATURES

• pretty10exp() and hence eaxis() get new behaviour for non-default sub10 = nn; notably, nn may now be a negative integer; sub10 = "10" is now equivalent to sub10 = c(-1,1), and newly, sub10 = "100" and "1000" as "mnemonic" for sub10 = c(-1, 2) or c(-2, 3), respectively.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-21 [2025-07-25]

NEW FEATURES

• New GCD(m,n) and LCM(...)

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-20 [2024-10-23]

NEW FEATURES

• sessionInfoX() now reports R_compiled_by() when that exists.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-19 [2024-08-16]

NEW FEATURES

• pretty10exp() gets new offset arg off and now works correctly even for subnormal numbers.

Misc

• more packages mentioned in Rd xref's

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-18 [2024-04-25]

NEW FEATURES

• sessionInfoX() now also stores (and prints) .Machine

BUG FIXES

• polyn.eval(7, x) no longer always returns 7, but rather a vector of the same length as x.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-17 [2024-02-01]

Misc

• seq_along(.) instead of (partial arg) seq(along=.); fix other partial arg.

• Get rid of is.R(), deprecated from R 4.4.0.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-16 [2023-08-08]

Misc

• ‘NEWS.Rd’ work around "not yet done"-entries.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-15 [2023-04-18]

NEW FEATURES

• New list_() (from my pkg tools) to create auto-named list()s easily.

• improved Sys.ps.cmd() for macOS.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-14 [2022-11-09]

NEW FEATURES

• read.org.table() now determines a reasonable nrows automatically.

Tweaks

• eaxis() has a larger default, 12 instead of 10, for nintLog.

• ‘man/*.Rd’: remove some extraneous \.

• ‘man/helppdf.Rd’: skip example on Windows (too slow).

• TA.plot() now works also with NA residuals.

• use new internal struct() as fast substitute of structure().

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-13 [2022-04-02]

BUG FIXES

• relErrV(target, current) now keeps dim() and dimnames() e.g., when current is an mpfr-array and names() when present.

Tweaks

• No longer import from methods: no need for a while already.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-12 [2021-09-10]

NEW FEATURES

• new helppdf(topic) mostly for interactive use.

BUG FIXES

• shortRversion() still failed with "RC".

• relErrV(x1, x2) now works when both objects are of length zero, but no longer when only one of them is.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-11 [2021-04-03]

NEW FEATURES

• sessionInfoX(TRUE) now choose chooses all loaded packages (which were accidentally chosen since 1.1-9, see the bug fixes).

BUG FIXES

• sessionInfoX() no longer (since 1.1-9, accidentally) chooses all packages.

• The nearcor() tests are less platform dependent.

DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT

• u.assign0() and u.get0() are defunct now.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-10 [2021-03-29]

BUG FIXES

• shortRversion() no longer fails for "beta" or "RC" status.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-9 [2021-03-22]

NEW FEATURES

• sessionInfoX() now also reports grSoftVersion() and, when tcltk is loaded, tclVersion().

• repChar() is deprecated in favour of R (>= 3.3.0)'s strrep().

• new shortRversion() (from an old R script of mine).

• new relErrV() and relErr(), improved from the Matrix package ‘test-tools.R’

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-8 [2021-01-06]

NEW FEATURES

• isRshared() has been “factorized out” of sessionInfoX(), as it maybe useful elsewhere, e.g., in Startup code setting .libPaths().

• New utilities pkgDesc() and pkgBuilt(), giving named character result of packageDescription().

BUG FIXES

• sessionInfoX()'s isRshared() is now based on tools::Rcmd() instead of system(), so possibly slightly more portable.

• Fixed not-yet–as-cran ‘NOTE’ about undeclared packages in Rd xrefs.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-7 [2020-05-05]

NEW FEATURES

• eaxis() gets new option equidist.at.tol = 0.002, previously hardwired to 0.001.

• seqXtend(<Date>, *, "interpolate") now also works with changed base::c.Date() from R(4.1.0)-devel.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-6 [2020-04-04]

BUG FIXES

• pkgLibs() now works on macOS, thanks to a hint by Brian Ripley.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-5 [2020-02-06]

NEW FEATURES

• on Unix-alikes export new pkgLibs() utility even though its API may change.

Tweaks

• replace class(.) != ".." in a comment, just for source code purity ;-)

BUG FIXES

• Regression tests should not show differences, even when a version of R crippled by --no-long-double is used.

• examples now use tempfile().

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-4 [2019-04-25]

NEW FEATURES

• eaxis() gets new optional argument use.expr in order to force use of pretty10exp() in a non-log case where non-exponential format would be used.

• sessionInfoX() now also returns an element isRshared, and its print() method prints that and the pcre_config() information on the PCRE.

• TA.plot() now also works for lmer() results (S4 objects, not lists).

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-3 [2018-11-26]

Tweaks

• ‘DESCRIPTION’ update, contains ORCID.

• ‘README.md’ links to blog post on (17 yr old -> GH)

BUG FIXES

• read.org.table() thinko (grep()).

• read.org.table(*, encoding=) notably to work for UTF-8 files.

• pretty10exp(*, lab.type="latex") works better, notably for non-trivial sub10.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-2 [2018-03-05]

NEW FEATURES

• new funEnv() utility: list()-like construction of a set of functions (and more) which all share the same environment.

• Using Authors@R in ‘DESCRIPTION’ and so finally honor the many contributors by listing them.

• Requiring R >= 3.2.0, so we can use \CRANpkg{.} in help files.

BUG FIXES

• histBxp() no longer evokes a warning from hist.default().

• digitsBase(0) now works.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-1 [2017-06-08]

NEW FEATURES

• sessionInfoX() now also reports capabilities() (and more, depending on R's version).

• mult.fig()'s default for mgp now adapts to a non-default value of par("las").

• eaxis() gets new options axp and n.axp for more flexible automatic tick marks.

BUG FIXES

• integrate.xy() is more careful in matching "data" with grid points, thanks to a bug report by Loraine Liping Seng.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.1-0 [2016-02-22]

NEW FEATURES

• primes() has optional pSeq argument, surprisingly with no known benefit.

• tweaks for xy.unique.x() speedup.

• QUnif(..., p, ...) now works for large p (and gets a silent option to suppress the message).

BUG FIXES

• Fix the tkdensity() bug introduced on 2015-07-22, hence, for sfsmisc versions 1.0-28 and 1.0-29, with the “codetools cleanup”.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-29 [2016-01-22]

NEW FEATURES

• new function read.org.table() to read emacs ‘org’ files via read.table().

• new loessDemo(), providing a version of an old loess.demo().

• new sessionInfoX() utility (with print() method).

BUG FIXES

• (workaround R (<= 3.2.2) bug:) the (invisible) return value str_data() no longer contains extraneous NULL entries in the filtering case.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-28 [2015-08-06]

NEW FEATURES

• tkdensity() is tweaked such as to look more standard to codetools;

• similarly (much less) for factorize() and roundfixS()

• new demo("pretty-lab")

BUG FIXES

• also import from "base" packages

• pretty10exp(*, lab.type = "latex") typo fixed; eaxis() works better with lab.type = "latex", both thanks to David Seifert.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-27 [2015-01-05]

Repository

• Moved sources to Github (https://github.com/mmaechler/sfsmisc), on Aug. 9, 2014, from years of emacs backups and a few RCS “archives”. Blogged about it on http://mmaechler.blogspot.ch/.

NEW FEATURES

• New missingCh() utility, also for didactical purposes;

• new rotn() "utility".

• eaxis() gets an optional sub10 argument.

• mat2tex() gets new option envir = "tabular".

BUG FIXES

• cairoSwd() adapted to new Sweave conventions.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-26 [2014-06-16]

NEW FEATURES

• new is.whole() to test if numbers are integer valued.

• new cairoSwd() from Alain Hauser (not yet exported).

• new bi2int() utility (called from as.intBase()) with a nice IP numbers transformation example.

• toLatex.numeric() gets times arg (from Alain).

• pretty10exp() gets new args lab.type and lab.sep from Ben Bolker.

BUG FIXES

• not using prt.DEBUG() anymore ourselves, as it has been deprecated.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-25 [2014-01-24]

NEW FEATURES

• better docu on Sys.cpuinfo()

BUG FIXES

• finally deprecate prt.DEBUG()

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-24 [2013-08-03]

BUG FIXES

• Deprecate u.assign0() as globalenv assignment is mostly deprecated, and the S <-> R compatibility is unneeded now.

• ps.do() and pdf.do() are now closures with their own file name. ==> no globalenv assignment needed anymore.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-13 [2010-10-20]

NEW FEATURES

• new demo(hatMat) being more explicit than ?hatMat

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-12 [2010-09-04]

BUG FIXES

• plotDS() bug fix

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-11 [2010-02-22]

BUG FIXES

• fix nearCor() example

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-10 [2009-12-16]

BUG FIXES

• pdf.do() with better defaults [ ==> compatible to ps.do() ]

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-9 [2009-11-18]

Misc

• maintenance

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-8 [2009-08-10]

Misc

• maintenance

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-7 [2009-01-10]

Misc

• maintenance

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-6 [2008-11-25]

NEW FEATURES

• new Sys.meminfo()

• p.profileTraces() improved; eaxis()

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-5 [2008-11-01]

NEW FEATURES

• new Duplicated()

• ellipsePoints() improvements

• eaxis() improvements

BUG FIXES

• str_data() buglet

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-4 [2008-07-31]

Misc

• maintenance

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-3 [2008-06-26]

NEW FEATURES

• pdf.do() has better default behavior.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-2 [2008-05-03]

Misc

• maintenance

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-1 [2008-01-30]

BUG FIXES

• Encoding (latin1), and other platform issues

• inv.seq() and eaxis() improvements

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 1.0-0 [2007-12-10]

NEW FEATURES

• plotDS() is new name for pl.ds() now allows 'ys' to be a smooth "fit structure". That is now easily constructed via

• new seqXtend() function for constructing a sequence which includes a give set of numbers x.

• y <- roundfixS(x) yields integers y[i] with the same sum as x[i].

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.96-01 [2007-11-21]

NEW FEATURES

• new function eaxis() for "engineering" / "extended" axis drawing, notably for log-axis labeling

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.95-13 [2007-09-13]

NEW FEATURES

• new function nearcor() to find nearest correlation matrix; almost as donated by Jens Oehlschlaegel.

BUG FIXES

• pdf.latex(), pdf.do() : defaults; viewer specifications...

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.95-12 [2007-06-30]

NEW FEATURES

• New internal Sys.procinfo() function for cleaner implementation of Sys.cpuinfo() and Sys.meminfo().

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.95-10 [2007-06-25]

NEW FEATURES

• new pdf.do(), pdf.end(), pdf.latex()), as analogues to ps.do() etc,

• implemented as wrapper to new dev.latex() utility function (dev.latex): instead of ps.latex(); (pdf.latex, ps.latex): now wrappers to dev.latex

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.95-2 to *-9

Version and Date (Latest First)

• 0.95-9 : 2007-03-15

• 0.95-8 : 2007-01-18

• 0.95-7 : 2006-10-19

• 0.95-6 : 2006-06-26

• 0.95-5 : 2006-06-22

• 0.95-4 : 2006-02-26

• 0.95-3 : 2006-01-25

• 0.95-2 : 2005-11-03

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.95-1 [2005-04-25]

NEW FEATURES

• 'rnls()' for robust nonlinear regression; 'lseq()' for [l]og scale 'seq()'

• now has a NAMESPACE

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-8 [2004-12-14]

BUG FIXES

• TA.plot() now also works for lme() results.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-7 [2004-11-04]

• Depends on R 1.9.0 (was effectively the case earlier): Removing old package names "modreg", "stepfun", etc

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-6 [2004-09-27]

• bug fix in p.ts(): case of start(.) of length 2

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-5 [2004-08-12]

NEW FEATURES

• new posdefify(m) returns a positive definite matrix close to 'm'

• New QUnif() and sHalton() for quasi-random number generation

BUG FIXES

• fixed labeling bug in compresid2way().

DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT

• mult.fig()'s global assignment to 'old.par' is now deprecated. do work with op <- mult.fig(...)$old.par instead !!

• plotCI() is now deprecated – use the one from package "gregmisc"!

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-4 [2004-05-26]

• p.ts() allows date-time objects for x-axis labeling, with new arguments 'date.x', 'do.x.axis', 'do.x.rug', 'ax.format' and 'xlab'

• strcodes() had a bug (offset by 1) which also lead to one in AsciiToInt()

• p.res.2x() has new arguments 'xlim', 'ylim', 'main' and a new default for 'scol' (= 2:3).

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-3 [2004-02-23]

• p.res.2x() allows 'scol' of length 2.

• n.plot() fixed the "log = .." (non-default) option.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-2 [2004-02-07]

• put Sys.*() functions into unix-only directory

• ps.end() tries behaves better for non-unix finding the file

• u.date() becomes OS-independent.

CHANGES in sfsmisc VERSION 0.9-1 [2004-02-04 – 1st CRAN ver.!]

• new function compresid2way() from Werner Stahel.

• f.robftest() now returns an object of class "htest"

  
  
  

• For more details, see the ‘ChangeLog’ file!