Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rvec 1.0.1

Reducing minimum R version

• The minimum R version has been reduced from 4.3.0 to 4.2.0. However, it does not appear to be possible to safely implement matrix multiplication without matrixOps, which was introduced in 4.3.0. Methods for matrix multiplication are therefore only implemented if R >= 4.3.0.

rvec 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2025-12-10

Change to lifecycle status

• Interface is now sufficiently stable that the “experimental” lifecycle badge has been removed.

Changes to interface

• Added functions draws_sd(), draws_var(), draws_cv() for summarising across draws. (#37)
• Added function pool_draws(), for combining draws across categories. (#35)
• Added functions new_rvec_chr(), new_rvec_dbl(), new_rvec_int(), and new_rvec_lgl(). Deprecated function new_rvec(). The new functions initialise a vector with 0, ““, or FALSE, while new_rvec() initialised it with NA, which was awkward. (#36)
• Added quotation marks to printed rvec_chr objects.
• Added %*% method for Matrix::Matrix objects. (#31)

Documentation

• Removed warning about r* functions returning doubles. (#28)

rvec 0.0.8

CRAN release: 2025-07-13

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

CRAN release: 2024-09-15

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
• 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

CRAN release: 2023-11-08

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.