NEWS

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beam 2.0.4 (2025-04-11)

• changed contact email address
• remove c++14 system requirement in DESCRIPTION
• pass spell checking
• removed potential warnings of the optimization in .shrinkvars()
• deprecated igraph::set.vertex.attribute() replaced by igraph::set_vertex_attr()

beam 2.0.3

• pass CRAN checks

beam 2.0.2 (2020-05-28)

• changed contact email address
• separate centering and scaling c++ functions to compute sample variances

beam 2.0.1 (2020-01-28)

• Small bugs fixed in c++ code

beam 2.0.0 (2020-01-26)

Major changes

• the main code of beam() is now written in C++

• new D argument for beam() to specify the shrinkage target of the linear shrinkage estimator

• new function lightbeam() that is a wrapper for beam() and beam.select(). It is faster and outputs a lighter object (sparse matrix).

• new methods postExpSigma and postExpOmega for beam-class objects that provide the posterior expectation of covariance and inverse-covariance matrices, respectively. These methods also allow the shrinkage estimation of the variances (or not).

Minor changes

• Dependency on Rcpp has been added

• date and description have been added in ``DESCRIPTION`

• a NEWS file has been added

• paper citations have been updated