NEWS

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rethnicity 0.2.6 (2024-10-18)

update readme

• beautify startup message (entirely rewrite with cli)
• add citation info at package startup
• check the input to be character vector only, not dataframe

rethnicity 0.2.5 (2024-07-08)

fix CRAN WARN

• WARN created by the change of C++20 standard (GCC-14): specify C++17 for now
• update arxiv doi link as well

sunsetting rethnicity in favor of rethnicity2

• frugally-deep has dropped support for RNN-based networks
• rethnicity2 will be transformer-based (should also improve performance)

rethnicity 0.2.4 (2023-03-13)

• startup message can be suppressed
• update README: it is recommended to use pak for installation

rethnicity 0.2.3 (2022-05-31)

• update dependency on RcppThread >= 2.1.3 to fix the compilation error
• update metadata of package

rethnicity 0.2.2 (2021-11-30)

• add predict_lastname() and predict_fullname() functions as lower-level interfaces
• they also allow for customized models
• add another vignette on how to run inference on the customized models
• change the License from MIT to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 to prohibit commercial uses
• modify the startup messages to notify users to use the package wisely
• remove docs/ folder, since we are using github actions to automate the process

rethnicity 0.1.2 (2021-10-07)

• fix the WARN message from CRAN checks on the vignette

rethnicity 0.1.1 (2021-09-22)

• fixed the include path problem and suppressing warning problem
• add cran-comments.md into .Rbuildignore
• modify the DESCRIPTION file as requested

rethnicity 0.1.0

• first submission of the package
• provide predict_ethnicity() function to predict the ethnicity from names