NEWS

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joker 0.14.2 (2025-04-28)

• Changed a dontrun to donttest.
• Removed examples for unexported functions.

joker 0.14.1

• Fixed the 301 moved-permanently link of CircleCI.
• Fixed a documentation bug.

joker 0.14.0

• First CRAN-ready version.

joker 0.13.6

• Fixed a bug in small_metrics() data checks.

joker 0.13.5

• Created a custom progress bar to remove the progress package import.

joker 0.13.4

• Fix documentation bug in Multigam that caused checks to fail.
• Set up CircleCI.

joker 0.13.3

• Removed docs/ from .gitignore to allow pkgdown site.

joker 0.13.2

• Fixed bug in Dir mle().
• Fixed bug in Laplace test.
• Removed sweave vignette.

joker 0.13.1

• Changed vignette from Rnw format to Rmd.
• Added pkgdown.
• Fixed a bug in README (double covr sticker).
• Added tests and improved covr.
• Changed package title.
• Fixed wrong URL in description

joker 0.13.0

• Added log, log.p, and lower.tail arguments to dpqr functions. Changed their arguments to much the stats package syntax.
• Added the Weibull distribution.
• Complied with goodpractice::gp() and extended the codecov accordingly.
• Changed e<name>() so that it can accept custom methods.
• Changed avar() to v().

joker 0.12.1

• Updated readme and github actions.

joker 0.12.0

• Changed package named to joker since estim was an archived R package and search results got confused.

joker 0.11.2

• Added distribution-specific documentation.
• Removed pkgdown due to incompatibility with Sweave.

joker 0.11.1

• Added pkgdown check.
• Attempted to fix compact-vignettes bug.

joker 0.11.0

• Changed plot_small_metrics, plot_large_metrics to plot
• Updated documentation pages.
• Added methods for d(D, x), p(D, x) etc.
• Added Multigam and Weibull distributions.
• Changed estim() to e().
• Changed estimators to be lists instead of atomic vectors.
• Created a more accurate idigamma() function.

joker 0.10.3

• Added new JSS vignette.

joker 0.10.2

• Tried to update test-coverage.
• Fixed bug in Nbinom test.

joker 0.10.1

• Removed false documentation file that caused R CMD check to fail.

joker 0.10.0

• Added tests for all distributions.
• Added many functions that were not available for several distributions.
• Corrected multiple bugs.
• Removed Ncchisq, Ncfisher. They will be added in later versions.

joker 0.9.0

• Changed package name to estim.
• Fixed Fisher df bug.
• Added NcFisher.

joker 0.8.5

• Removed the "v function works" Dirichlet test that failed on MKL until the reason of failure becomes clear.

joker 0.8.3

• Updated missing return value in calculus.Rd documentation.
• Changed default plot save path to NULL.
• Changed q2 function to qn.

joker 0.8.2

• Updated missing return values in documentation.

joker 0.8.1

• Added support for S4 Distribution classes, therefore the distr package is no longer a dependency (nor is it imported).
• Added moment functions for all distributions.
• Added new distributions.

joker 0.7.3

• Removed dontrun from all examples.
• Resubmitted to CRAN.

joker 0.7.2

• Updated DESCRIPTION.
• Added references.
• Removed dontrun from examples.
• Resubmitted to CRAN.

joker 0.7.1

• Updated DESCRIPTION.
• Submitted to CRAN.

joker 0.7.0

• Created the estim and avar functions that cover all distributions and estimation methods.
• Added ll functions that calculate the log-likelihood to provide support in the default R style.
• Added e functions that perform parameter estimation to provide support in the default R style.
• Added v functions that calculate the estimator asymptotic variance to provide support in the default R style.
• Removed the me2 and same2 estimators. Added "dirich" argument to the MGamma me and same estimators.
• Moved package distr from Depends to Imports.
• Added testthat coverage.
• Ran rhub and devtools checks for cran release.
• Complied by goodpractice::gp().

joker 0.6.0

• Added MGamma ME, SAME estimators.
• Upgraded acov, plot_acov to include covariances.

joker 0.5.2

• Fixed a bug in dependencies.

joker 0.5.1

• Fixed a bug in Description.
• Enriched the documentation.
• Complied by goodpractice::gp().

joker 0.5.0

• Added a logo.
• Added metrics and plot_metrics.
• Added acov and plot_acov.
• Enriched the documentation.

joker 0.4.0

• Added GitHub and documentation files.