NEWS.md

In eyeris: Flexible, Extensible, & Reproducible Processing of Pupil Data

eyeris 1.0.0

eyeris v1.0.0

Pending Review

🎉 First CRAN release!

This version marks the official launch of the eyeris package on CRAN.

✨ New Features (#125)

• Added example vignettes to demonstrate core functionality:
• Preprocessing pipelines with glassbox()
• Event-based epoching with epoch()
• BIDS-style export with bidsify()
• Custom pipeline extensions using pipeline_handler()

📚 Documentation (#125)

• Improved function documentation across the package
• Added citation guidance and reproducibility tips

Thanks for checking out eyeris! 🧠👁️

eyeris v0.1.0.9001

February 26th, 2025

Minor improvements and fixes

• FF (#115): add more aggressive handling of edge cases in eyeris::detransient() (#121)
• Specifically, situations where pupil data appear to have already undergone some type of online filtering directly from the EyeLink Host PC machine.
• There is now detailed instructions on what to do if this exception is raised.
• Furthermore, a new mad_thresh override parameter has been added to eyeris::detransient() for advanced users to override the mad_thresh computed property. Note: this new mad_thresh parameter defaults to NULL (and should pretty much always stay as such).
• FF (#122): fixed issue with incompatible unicode character in plot titles (#123)

eyeris v0.1.0.9000

February 11th, 2025

Breaking changes

• NF (#10): add support for .asc files containing multiple recording segments within the same file (#120)
• There is a new block argument added to the load_asc() function
• The default setting is "auto", which aims to automatically handle multiple recording segments within the same .asc file. We recommend using this default as this is likely the safer choice rather than assuming a single-block recording. Furthermore, add downstream functions are intentionally designed to support any N number of blocks; using the "auto" setting automatically enables this support for .asc files containing single recording blocks by labeling the single recording session as block_1
• You can also manually specify a different block value (numeric) instead of "auto", which can be helpful for multi-block experiments where each block/run was recorded to a separate .asc file. This is especially important to consider when running the downstream epoch() and bidsify() functions so that derived files and summary reports are properly labeled with the correction block/run number
• Currently, there is also a NULL option; however, this is likely going to just be a part of beta testing and will probably be removed in a future version given the foregoing 2 options should cover most (if not all) use cases

New features

• NF: robust HTML and PDF output summary sidecar reports within bidsify() (#120)
• Here, reports are well-organized both by block/run and any specific event message epochs that have been processed using the epoch() function
• For epoched data, we now provide a useful interactive utility within the epoch-specific HTML reports: you can now use your mouse and/or keyboard to swiftly navigate through an interactive gallery of pupil plot segments from every single trial from any given subject, right out-of-the-box! We hope this alleviates some of the complexities/roadblocks users might face when needing to perform manual inspections of their data for quality assurance and/or diagnostic purposes.

Minor improvements and fixes

• FF (#118): resolved a minor bug in the EyeLink EDF header model and version fields for data collected on newer EyeLink hardware/software (#120)
• ENH: event epoching is now both more robust and super fast (#120)
• We have implemented more efficient data structures to swiftly handle large sets of pupil samples in rapid time
• We have also added in better visual feedback within the console regarding epoching progress
• Similarly, these added benefits coincide nicely with the new multi-block support (#10)
• General bug fixes and enhancements to codebase and front-end UX (#120)

eyeris v0.0.0.9000

November 23rd, 2024

• Initial beta release

Commit message tags

• BF: bug fix (in the release branch)
• FF: feature fix (bug fixes in the dev branch)
• RF: refactoring
• NF: new feature
• ENH: enhancement
• DOC: for documentation-related updates and changes
• TEST: for commits that add or change unit tests
• CHORE: like RF but usually less important changes

eyeris documentation built on April 12, 2025, 2:05 a.m.