NEWS

smoots 1.1.4 (2023-09-11)

The NOTE "Specified C++11: please drop specification unless essential" has been fixed.
a package alias has been added appropriately in the package overview help file.
the plot functionality for objects of class "smoots" is no longer only interactive but different plot types can now also be selected via a function argument.
the long-time deprecated argument "msg" in "bootCast()", "modelCast()", and "rollCast()" has been removed.

a bug has been fixed that occurred when selecting p = 0 or q = 0 for the bootstrap approach
a bug has been fixed where using the deprecated argument msg in the function rollCast() caused an error

a NAMESPACE issue (stated as a NOTE in CRAN checks) regarding the package 'progress' has been fixed.
an ERROR that occurred when running the test files on aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit), r-patched-solaris-x86 and x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) has been fixed.

a minor bug in the automatically created plot title when applying plot.smoots() to an object returned by dsmooth() was fixed.
a notable performance increase was implemented for the algorithms considered in the functions msmooth(), tsmooth() and dsmooth().
RcppArmadillo was added to Suggests to address a note on r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang.
a few typos in the documentation were fixed.
an error in the description of the element 'ws' within lists returned by msmooth(), tsmooth(), dsmooth() and gsmooth() was fixed in the documentation.
an acknowledgment of the support by the German DFG project GZ-FE-1500-2-1 was added to the DESCRIPTION file.
[[Rcpp::export]] was removed from C++ functions only used by other C++ functions.
minor R code simplifications were implemented.
the package now makes use of the future and future.apply packages to improve the performance of the bootstraps in the functions bootCast(), modelCast() and rollCast().
due to the implementation of parallel code, the argument msg of the functions bootCast(), modelCast() and rollCast() has been deprecated; instead they have two new arguments pb and cores.

the README file has been adjusted.
new functions were added for graphical testing of linearity assumptions and for forecasting.
a rescaling function was added to simplify the transfer of the obtained derivative estimates on the time interval [0, 1] to the actual observation
time points.
the package now uses compiled C++ code within selected functions and needs to import the Rcpp package for this purpose.
due to the implemented C++ code the performance of the functions of version 1.0.0 has been slightly improved for this version.
the documentation has been adjusted with respect to the newly introduced functions.
typos and false or missing information in the documentation have been corrected.
the documentation has generally been edited with a stronger focus on text formatting so that actual mathematical formulae are visible in the package's PDF-manual
the S3 method plot.smoots() has been reworked and allows for more arguments of the standard plot function and thus for more flexibility.
improved feedback on incorrect input.
some default values for arguments of functions existing since package version 1.0.0 have been adjusted, e.g. p = v + 1 is now the default in gsmooth() as opposed to p = 1 in previous versions.