NEWS

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HLCtools 0.1.0 (2026-07-23)

CRAN submission amendments

• Added DOI-formatted references to related behavioural synchrony methodologies in the package Description.
• Clarified that the specific Herd Lying Concordance formulations are introduced in this package.
• Removed unnecessary \dontrun{} wrappers from short, executable examples.
• Ensured that all exported functions have directly executable examples and installed help pages.

New features

• Added calculate_hlc() for interval-level Herd Lying Concordance calculations.
• Added SD-, MAD-, IQR-, and entropy-based HLC implementations.
• Added lying-weighted HLC metrics.
• Added threshold synchrony indicators.
• Added summarise_hlc_daily() for daily group-level summaries.
• Added compare_hlc_methods() for descriptive comparison of HLC variants.
• Added rank_hlc_methods() for dataset-specific descriptive ranking of HLC variants.
• Added hlc_methods() and hlc_weighted_methods().
• Added example_lies example dataset.
• Added getting-started vignette.