NEWS.md

In rvec: Vectors Representing Random Variables

rvec 0.0.8

Changes to interface

• Added function prob(), a version of draws_mean() that works only with logical rvecs. (#27)
• rvec() and rvec_dbl() now accept sparse matrices (inheriting from "Matrix"), in addition to dense matrices. (#25)
• Function rbinom_rvec(), rgeom_rvec(), rhyper_rvec(), rmultinom_rvec(), rnbinom_rvec(), and rpois_rvec() now always return doubles, even when the counts are small. The standard R approach of giving integers when counts are small and doubles when counts are large was generating Valgrind errors in dependent packages.

rvec 0.0.7

Changes to interface

• Removed is.numeric methods for rvecs. These had been creating problems with functions from non-rvec packages, since is.numeric generally implies that an object is a base R style numeric vector.
• Removed space from around = when printing rvec_lgl, so that, for instance, p = 0.5 becomes p=0.5.
• rvec(), rvec_chr(), rvec_dbl(), rvec_int(), and rvec_lgl() now accept rvec arguments.
• draws_ci() now accepts width arguments with length greater than 1.
• Improved error messages from distribution functions.

New functions

• Added function new_rvec(), which creates rvecs with specified values for type, length, and n_draw, consisting entirely of NAs.
• Added function extract_draw(), which extracts a single draw from an rvec.

rvec 0.0.6

Documentation

• Fixed typo in DESCRIPTION
• Added 'value' section to documentation for "missing"
• Added examples to documentation for "missing"

Interface

• Changed anyNA() so it returns an rvec, rather than a logical scalar.

rvec 0.0.5

Features

• added default case to n_draw

Documentation

• sundry tidying of help files

rvec 0.0.4

Documentation

• Export generices for sd, var, rank, and add documentation

Internals

• Change argument names for matrixOps to 'x' and 'y'

rvec 0.0.3

Documentation

• Split help for distributions into multiple files
• Revise vignette

Features

• added 'by' argument to collapse_to_rvec
• added summary method
• added 'rank', 'order', 'sort'

rvec 0.0.2

Bug fix

• Added drop = FALSE argument to calls to matrixStats::rowQuantiles()

rvec 0.0.1

Minor feature added

• Added method for is.numeric(). (Can't add methods for is.character(), is.double(), is.integer(), is.logical(), since these are non-generic primitives.

rvec documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:29 p.m.