News for Package asremlPlus

asremlPlus Version 4.4.51 (2025-08-22)

• The argument dDF.na has been deprecated and replaced by a new argument dDF.fault in recalcWaldTab, predictPlus, predictPresent, and testranfix. The argument dDF.fault expands the replacement of denDF in a wald.tab to include the replacement of values that that are NA, Inf or less than 0.01.

• Debugging information from findLSDminerrors.alldiffs that was always being output will now only be produced when the argument trace is set to TRUE.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.50 (2025-07-17)

• Add the calculation of a notional LSD for LSDtype is overall when the all values of the sed are zero because there is, in reality, only a single predicted value.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.49 (2025-06-10)

• Add new function findLSDminerrors that uses a grid search to identify an LSD value that minimizes the number of errors over a set of pairwise comparisons.

• Modify facRecast.alldiffs so that newlabels can be longer than the number of observed levels in the factor.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.48 (2025-04-06)

• Increment version number for resubmitting to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.47 (2025-04-03)

• Fix bug in newfit.asreml and setvariances.call that resulted in terms that had been set to F (fixed) using one of these functions and all set terms had been removed in a change to the model.

• Rectify the incorporation of a data.frame supplied via the asreml argument data in a call to newfit.asreml resulting from fitting a new model with a revised data.frame.

• Add argument allow.AbsentDropTerms to the function changeModelOnIC to allow the possibility of changing the model even when some fixed and/or random terms that are to be dropped are not in the model.

• Set argument allow.AbsentDropTerms from the function changeModelOnIC to TRUE in fitting TPNCSS and TPPS models using addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests. The fitting of these models was being incorrectly abandoned when any terms specified using the arguments dropFixed and dropRandom were not present in the supplied fitted model.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.46 (2025-02-16)

• Fix bug in newfit.asreml that arises when checking that terms supplied via its set.terms argument have been previously fitted. This bug affected all of the model modification and selection functions, for example changeModelOnIC.asrtests, testranfix.asrtests and changeTerms.asrtests, because they call newfit.asreml to change the fitted model.

• Fix bug in using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to fit models involving corb.

• Further tweaking of fitting spatial correlation models using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to deal with problems with estimating spatial and Residual variances.

• Fix bug in inforCriteria resulting from a change in asreml 4.2.0.362 in the way Cfixed is stored in the asreml.object.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.45 (2025-01-27)

• Add code to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests that removes singular P-spline terms (TP.CR.x) from the model.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.44 (2025-01-07)

• Fix minor bugs in fitting spatial correlation models using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Fix a bug in rmboundary.asrtests that caused an error when there was a bound component in a dsum term.

• Modified newfit.asreml and setvariances.call to ensure that terms whose bounds and/or initial values have been previously set using setvariances.call continue to have these values set in subsequent model fits, provided they remain in the fitted model. This will be promulgated to the model modification and selection functions, for example changeModelOnIC.asrtests, testranfix.asrtests and changeTerms.asrtests, because they call newfit.asreml to change the fitted model.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.43 (2024-12-10)

• Fix bug in getTestPvalue.asrtests that occurred when the terms in a test.summary include text.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.42 (2024-11-15)

• Make sure that numerics in the components of an alldiffs objects are set to NA_real_ when they are missing.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.41 (2024-11-06)

• Tweak the fitting of correlation models when using for addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and there are bound variance parameters.

• Add the response name to the titles of the objects printed using print.asrtests and print.test.summary.

• Add absent.error argument to function getTestEntry.asrtests to control whether an error occurs if label is absent from the test.summary terms component.

• Add class list to asrtests objects. This means that the function within will now work with asrtests objects.

• Revise the Ladybird vignettes to include the exploration of various choices of LSD values.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.40 (2024-10-27)

• Fix minor issue with building for CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.39 (2024-10-26)

• Fixed a bug in pickLSDstatistic that occurs when there is only one prediction for a level of a factor.combination specified using the argument LSDby.

• Fix a bug that meant that the settings of the arguments allow.unconverged, allow.fixedcorrelation and update for addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests were not being passed on to functions that they called. Set the defaults for the arguments allow.unconverged, allow.fixedcorrelation and update to TRUE for addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to match the defaults that had in practice been the settings of these arguments for the functions that fit the spatial models.

• Fix bug in fitting correlations models in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests where correlations on both grid dimensions become bound.

• Add code to remove a correlation function from a term when one of more of its correlation parameters are bound and the argument allow.fixedcorrelation is FALSE in fitting the function using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Add checks and fixes for ill-fitting correlations models in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, such as for when (i) bound residual term after fitting a correlation term, (ii) all random and residual terms in one dimesion are bound, and (iii) some correlations on both grid dimensions become bound.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.38 (2024-08-19)

• Add check that spatial variance is not bound whilst the nugget variance is positive when fitting correlation models in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests. If it is, fix the nugget variance.

• Add the argument nugget.variance to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to control the fitting of a nuggetvariance when fitting correlation models.

• Add trace argument addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, primarily for tracking the fitting of correlation models.

• Add traps for errors resulting from singular information matrices when fitting correlation models in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Fix bug in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests when fitting metric correlation functions.

• Fix bug in newfit.asreml that occurred when change to random model results in no random terms.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.37 (2024-07-23)

• Modify the fitting of corb correlation models in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to make it more robust.

• Fix a bug in infoCriteria.asreml and infoCriteria.list that caused an incorrect-dimensions error when computing the full likelihood.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.36 (2024-07-01)

• Make sure that, when false.pos.wt is used with pickLSDstatistics and there are several values with the same weighted sum, LSDstatisics with less false positives are favoured.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.35 (2024-06-19)

• Fix faulty links in manual.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.34 (2024-06-19)

• Add EGLS.linTransform to linTranform.alldiffs, predictPlus.asreml, predictPresent.asreml and pairdiffsTransform.alldiffs.

• Add S3 method function isCompoundSymmetric.matrix.

• Modify print.alldiffs so that the diagonal elements of pairwise differences, sed and p-values are printed as blank spaces.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.33 (2024-06-10)

• Fix bug in checking loaded versions that occurs with R 4.4.0.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.32 (2024-04-11)

• Update for CRAN submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.31 (2024-03-15)

• Revise warning message in R2adj.asreml for when generalized inverse fails.

• Add fix for bug in as.asrtests that caused a C stack overflow error when trying to update the wald.tab component of an asrtests.obj.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.30 (2024-03-03)

• For chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, change the abbreviations for the two P-spline models from TPPCS and TPP1LS to TPPSC2 and TPPSL1. If the call to chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests includes the former abbreviations, they will be converted to the new abbreviatons and all output will be labelled with the new abbreviations.

• Revise the deocumentation of the P-spline details for addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.29 (2024-02-26)

• For R2adj.asreml, correct the check that terms to be included in the random model for calculating R2.adj are in the fitted model so that a warning is no longer issued when a term for inclusion differs from a fitted term only in the order of the factors/variables comprising the terms.

• Trap errors issued by svd function from base R in computing generalized inverses for R2adj.asreml. Instead, issue a warning and return NA.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.28 (2024-02-13)

• Fix a bug in estimateV that meant that terms involving the asreml at function on other than the first variable in the term caused an error.

• Instead of producing an error when the number of columns in the design matrix does not equal the number of coefficients for the term, now add columns of zeros for missing design-matrix columns. An error may still occur when this does not work.

• Add checks in estimateV.asreml and R2adj.asreml for when the design matrix for a term is not available. Rather than issue an error, NA is returned and an attribute missing.termmatrix added that contains a list of the problematic terms. Also added an error to variofaces.asreml and bootREMLRT for when this problem occurs.

• Extend the the include.which.fixed and include.which.random arguments of R2adj.asreml to process correctly formulae to update the existing fixed and random formula using a formula that includes the '.' and terms, typically a list of bracketed terms preceded by a '-' so that terms are removed from a formula.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.27 (2024-02-05)

• Spell check the manual.

• Revise the detection of variance parameters involving sections in addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.26 (2024-02-01)

• Implement bespoke strategy for fitting corb correlation models that first fits a random units length term and constrains the residual variance to one. Then, the corb models are fitted and, when corr.orders is set to 0, up to 10 correlation bands are fitted depending on whether additonal bands improve an information criterion.

• Fix a bug in estimateV when a corb function is involved in a variance term and asreml version 4.2 is being used.

• Minor corrections to documentation for makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame, addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Fixed bugs in passing the arguments for setvarianceterms.call via ... from addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to changeTerms and changeModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Minor revisions to documentation for R2adj.asreml.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.25 (2024-01-15)

• Add an error for a NULL vcov component in the alldiffs.obj supplied to the ratioTransform.alldiffs function.

• Add printPlot argument to plotPredictions.data.frame and change the function to return the plot.

• Add function R2adj.asreml to calculate an adjusted coefficient of determination for linear mixed models.

• Fixed bugs in estimateV for asr_str terms with non-diagonal variance structures.

• Rectify a problem in extracting the correct columns of the design matrix for some terms that affected estimateV.

• Update the vignettes.

• Add link to GitHub issues page for BugReports in DESCRIPTION file.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.24 (2023-12-20)

• Fix a bug in plotLSDerrors so that the correct errors are now plotted.

• Add argument false.pos.wt to pickLSDstatistics.alldiffs, which when it is not NULL results in mininzing the weighted sum of the false.pos and false.neg comparisons of pairwise differences.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.23 (2023-12-12)

• Add the use of the R optimizer nloptr::bobyqa to search for the optimal angles for the rotation of the eigenvlues of the penalty matrix when fitting cubic P-splines using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests. This provides an alternative to searching over a two-dimensional grid of angles.

• Fix a bug in the fits used in searching for optimal rotation angles by doing the search before any spatial P-spline models are fitted.

• There has been several changes to the arguments of makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame, addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests as follows:

  • The default for ngridangles has changed to NULL to provide for using an optimizer to search for the optimal rotation.

  • The arguments dropRowterm and dropColterm have been replaced with the more general arguments dropFixed and dropRandom.

  • The default for asreml.option has changed from mbf to grp. While grp requires more storage that mbf, it is easier to apply asreml and asrtests methods to fitted models when grp is used.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.22 (2023-11-14)

• Add the S3-method function convEffectNames2DataFrame.asreml.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.21 (2023-11-05)

• Increment version for resubmission to CRAN after fixing an S3 method declaration error.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.20 (2023-11-05)

• Revise manual pages to meet cran syntax requirements.

• Add the argument usRandLinCoeffs to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to control whether to attempt the fit of the unstructured variance model for the constant and linear terms in random interactions with smooth terms. Also, added code to reject the model if any of the variances or covariances are bound.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.19 (2023-10-30)

• Fix bug that prevented the fitting of unstructured variance model between the random constant and linear parameters in the interaction of these terms with the random smooth row and random column terms in a TPPCS model.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.18 (2023-10-29)

• For fitting in P-spline models using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests or chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, change the function for fitting the covariance of the constant and the linear term from us to corh or corgh.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.17 (2023-10-26)

• Fix bug in investigating nugget variance for correlation models when there are sections.

• Further improve the handling of situations in which the residual variance or the spatial variance associated with a correlation term becomes singular or bound in fitting a spatial correlation model using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Add allow.corrsJointFit argument as a device for dealing with fits that hang when attempting to fit simultaneously both correlations for the two grid dimesnions.

• Internal recoding.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.16 (2023-10-18)

• Added the maxit option for asreml to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, setting its default to 30 for these functions to increase the chances that the models will converge.

• Extensively revise the code to improve the handling of situations in which the residual variance or the spatial variance associated with a correlation term becomes singular or bound in fitting a spatial correlation model using addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Revise checking for nugget variance when there are sections and the residual has a separate terms for each section.

• Added a basic check for separate random and residual terms for sections and, if there are none, issue a warning that better fitting can result if they are included.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.15 (2023-10-02)

• Make the default number of cores (ncores) for parallel processing in bootREMLRT.asreml, simulate.asreml and variofaces.asreml.

• Add the function convAsremlobj.asreml that recreates an existing asreml object using the currently loaded asreml version so that the object is compatible with this version.

• Made the following modifications to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests:

  • Tweaked the code underlying these functions for fitting local spatial variation models to make it more robust.

  • Added reporting the optimal rotation angles to the test.summary when rotateX is TRUE. Also, added theta(s) as an attribute to the asreml.object.

  • Added the which.rotacriterion so that one could choose between the deviance, likelihood, AIC and BIC as the criterion to use in determining the optimal roation angle for rotating the eigenvectors of the penalty matrix.

  • Add the capacity to parallel process, for each column angle, the search of the row angles. This option is only available for the asreml.option set to grp.

  • Removed the need to precede a call to these functions with a call makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame when asreml.option is set to mbf.

  • Fix a bug in fitting natural cubic smoothing spines (TPNCSS) using these functions where only the first of the sections had splines fitted to it.

  • Change from ordinal numbers to levels in labelling the fitting of correlation corr spatial models when using these functions.

• Modify makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame so that the default enviroment of the data.frames for the mbf option of asreml.opt is that of the function that calls makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame. Also, for mbf.env set to NULL, do not assign the mbf data.frames; just include them in the list that is returned.

• Make the data.plus component of the list produced by makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame when asreml.option is set to mbf equivalent to that produced when asreml.option is set to grp.

• Corrected bug in detecting Fixed (F) variance components in rmboundary.asrtests.

• Added to newfit.asreml, a test for bound and singular terms in a new model when update is TRUE and, if there are any, added code to refit the model as if update was FALSE, to see if any bound terms become unbound terms.

• Clarified the dcoumentation of the update argument in all functions that include it.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.14 (2023-08-28)

• Minor internal code changes.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.13 (2023-08-24)

• Add arguments rotateX and theta to makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame so that the eigenvectors of the penalty matrix used in generating the design matrices for the random terms could be rotated by the angles in theta.

• Add code to carry out a grid search to find the optimal angle by which to rotate the eigenvectors of the penalty matric when fitting P-splines. Add arguments rotateX and ngridlines to addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to allow the use to request that grid seach be made for the optimal ritation angle and to control the size of the grid searched.

• Fix a bug in fitting a correlation model that occurs when addSpatialModel is used to fit the model.

• There remains an svd bug with the oneMKL libraries version 2023.1.0 that is causing problems for IClikelhood set to "full".

asremlPlus Version 4.4.12 (2023-08-03)

• Modifications to deal with classhes between multithreading and external linear algebra packages under Windows. The environmental variable OMP_NUM_THREADS needs to be set to 1 if parallel processing is to be undertaken on a Windows machine. This can be done for individual tasks by using Sys.setenv("OMP_NUM_THREADS" = 1) prior to running the task; otherwise, the environmental variable can be set for all tasks in the Windows system via Advanced system settings > Envirnomental Variables.

• There remains an svd bug with the oneMKL libraries version 2023.1.0 that is causing problems for IClikelhood set to "full".

asremlPlus Version 4.4.11 (2023-07-19)

• This version has known issues when the Intel MKL libraries are installed in the R installation directories.

• Modified makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame to implement the use of mbf in fitting P-spline models for local spatial variation.

asremlPlus Version 4.4.10 (2022-12-28)

• Modifications for ASReml-R version 4.2. Those that may impact upon users include the following:

  • The names of the columns of the design matrix has changed, as has the order of the columns.

  • character codes are now stored in both vparameters.type and vparameters.con, making vpt.char and vpc.char obsolete and so no longer available.

  • For predict, the intercept-only classify and the name of the column in the predictions.freame, has changed from (Intercept) to Intercept.

  • The designation of estmates on the boder of the parameter space has changed from fixed (F) to (B) e.g. correlations.

  • When the levels of a factor are being specified in terms with an at, as opposed to an ordinal number for the position of the level in the levels list, then the levels must be enclosed in single or double quotes. Further, the names of the terms will nclude single or double quotes.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.56 (2023-06-20)

• Correct issue with alldiffs attributes not being retained when subsetting using subset.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.55 (2023-06-13)

• Remove bloated system-generated testthat-problems.rds file so that the tarball to be submitted is less than 5 Mb.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.54 (2023-06-12)

• Fix problem with deprecated function setvarianceterms.asreml when submitted to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.53 (2023-06-12)

• Add new vignette WheatSpatialModels that illustrates the fitting of models for local spatial variation.

• Generalize correlation spatial models to allow the independent specification of any asreml variance model for rows and columns. Improve the fitting of spatial correlation models, including changing the default correlation model to ar1 and postpone removing bundary terms until after all components of the correlarion model have been fitted.

• Revised the spatial modelling to resolve several bugs associated with them when the residual specifies heterogeneous variance using eith idh or dsum.

• Repurpose row.factor and col.factor arguments of addSpatialModel.asrtests, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to specify the row and column factors for correlation model where required and add the arguments dropRowterm and dropColterm to specify the main effect terms to be dropped in fitting spline models.

• Modified changeTerms.asrtests and changeModelOnIC.asrtests so that the bounds and initial values of terms specified using set.terms without changing any terms in the model.

• Fix problem detected during CRAN submission that found setvarianceterms.asreml was apparently an unregistered exported generic.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.52 (2023-05-18)

• Fix bug in identifying residual terms for ASReml-R v. 4.x.

• Fix bug in rmboundary.asrtests when removing a bound term results in no random terms.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.51 (2023-04-02)

• Fix bug in fitting P-splines when difforder is one.

• Change infoCriteria to use the deviance in calculating information criteria for family set to asr_binomial or asr_poisson.

• Add the argument transform.function to addBacktransforms.alldiffs, allDifferences.data.frame, predictPlus.asreml and predictPresent.asreml so that predictions and error.intervals on the scale of the transform.function can be backtransformed.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.50 (2023-03-9)

• Add classify argument to as.predictions.frame, checking that variables in the classify are in the predictions.frame and conversion of any variables in the classify that are not factor to factors.

• Update ggplot2 functions to use tidy evaluation.

• Fix internal anomaly causing a Note on CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.49 (2023-03-3)

• Add the argument useIntervals to plotLSDerror.alldiffs.

• Fix a bug in plotLSDerrors that resulted in not being able to determine which LSDs in the LSD component apply to the pairwise comparisons. It resulted in all comparisons being shown as n.a..

asremlPlus Version 4.3.48 (2023-02-18)

• Rename makeTPSPlineXZMats.data.frame to makeTPPSplineMats.data.frame.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.47 (2023-02-17)

• Tidy up code for trySpatial = "none".

• Revise makeTPSPlineXZMats.data.frame to cover asreml.opt set to grp.

• Fix bug in plotLSDerrors when LSDs have beeen computed for LSDtype set to factor.combinations.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.46 (2023-02-05)

• Fix bug in testing whether an ar1 fit has been achieved in addSpatialModel.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.45 (2023-01-24)

• Modify system tests to cater for for M1Mac numerical accuracy.

• Fix bug in which the setting of IClikelihood was not being passed to infoCriteria calls in chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests, resulting in always reporting the REML likelihood.

• Change that spatial.IC component of the list returned by chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to contains the information criteria for each spatial model that is fitted. Also, rename the components best and best.AIC to best.spatial.mod and best.spatial.IC.

• Fix bug in reporting the likelihood when a TPNCSS model does not fit.

• Add function addSpatialModel.asrtests that adds a spatial model to a supplied model without asessing the fit of the model.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.44 (2022-12-30)

• Add arguments nestorder, degree and difforder to functions addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and makeTPSPlineXZMats.data.frame, as well as argument nestorder to chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests. Add the option TPLV to the argument trySpatial from chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests to allow a linear spatial model with first-order penalty to be fitted.

• Fix bug in testing for fixed correlations that meant they were not always detected.

• Fix error in changeModelsonIC.asrtests in the action when the model is Unswapped - it was being reported as Changed random.

• Stop crashing of changeTerms.asrtests and ChangeModelOnIC.asrtests when rmboundary.asrtests unable to remove singular terms.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.43 (2022-11-30)

• Fix bugs in choosing the best spatial model in chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests. Add components best.spatial and best.spatial.AIC to the value returned by chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

• Add linear-row-by-linear-column-covariates interaction to the model fitted for TPNCSS option of addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.42 (2022-11-23)

• Add functions makeTPSPlineZMats.data.frame, addSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests and chooseSpatialModelOnIC.asrtests.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.41 (2022-11-16)

• Revise test for fixed correlation so that allow.fixedcorrelation recognises any correlation term, rather than being restricted to ar1.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.40 (2022-11-16)

• Compress pdf files and resubmit to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.39 (2022-11-13)

• Rebuild for R 4.2.2 and submission to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.38 (2022-10-24)

• Added function pickLSDstatistics.alldiffs.Rd.

• Revise documentation for the arguments LSDtype, LSDsupplied, LSDby and LSDstatistic .

asremlPlus Version 4.3.37 (2022-09-19)

• Fix bugs in function newfit.asreml that involves making changes to models that involve the at function. This bug affected the functions changeTerms.asrtests, changeModelOnIC.asrtests, rmboundary.asrtests, testswapran.asrtests and testranfix.asrtests. In removing a term that involve a single lewvel of a factor in an at function, it is now possible to specify either the level or the level index.

• Modify rmboundary.asrtests to allow the removal of random term for a single level of an at function when the levels are specified singly in the random model.

• Add function addto.test.summary.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.36 (2022-08-17)

• Minor correction for resubmitting to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.3.35 (2022-08-16)

• Rebuild under R 4.2.1 for new submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-34 (2022-04-20)

• Add functions plotLSDerrors.alldiffs and plotLSDerrors.data.frame.

• Replace the use of the package reshape with the use of reshape2.

• Replace X1 and X2 with Rows and Columns as the default names for the the first two columns of the data.frame produced by plotPvalues.alldiffs, plotLSDs.alldiffs and plotLSDerrors.alldiffs and provided as input to plotPvalues.data.frame, plotLSDs.data.frame and plotLSDerrors.data.frame.

• Change plotPvalues.alldiffs and plotLSDs.alldiffs to return a two component list, one component of which is a data.frame that contains the statistics to be plotted and the other of which is a list containing the plots that have be produced as ggplot objects.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-33 (2022-04-09)

• Add an error if all residual variances are bound.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-32 (2021-12-21)

• Fix bug in chooseModelOnIC result from a change in as.vector for data.frames and lists in R 4.2.0.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-31 (2021-12-06)

• Rebuild under R 4.1.2 for new submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-30 (2021-11-22)

• Put in a trap for fixed-effects variances being inestimable when calculating the full likelihood.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-29 (2021-11-06)

• Modify linTransform.alldiffs so that an intercept-only submodel can be fitted.

• Revise the manual entry for exploreLSDs.alldiffs and for pairdiffsTransform.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-28 (2021-10-26)

• Fix bug in newfit.asreml that re-orders the fixed model because of R limitations.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-27 (2021-10-24)

• Fix problem in linTransform.alldiffs when the product of the numbers of levels in the classiify factors is large and not all combinations of the levels are observed.

• Relax the requirement for LSDby variable to be in the classify to beng that they must be in the predictions component of the alldiffs.obj.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-26 (2021-10-21)

• Fix bug in false.pos and false.neg for LSDtype set to supplied when LSDby is not NULL.

• Add quantiles 25 (q25) and 75 (q75) to the values that LSDstatistic can take and the exploreLSDs.alldiffs investigates.

• Allow for multiple LSDstatistic values when LSDtype is factor.combination and LSDby is set.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-25 (2021-10-15)

• Add sig.size, sig.face and sig.colour arguments to plotPvalues.data.frame and plotPvalues.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-24 (2021-10-14)

• Make sure that when predicted.values and the associated vcov and sed in an alldiffs.object have values that are close to zero as a result of the limitations of real number calculations, they are set to zero so as to avoid further calculation problems.

• Add zero.tolerance argument to linTransform.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-23 (2021-10-03)

• Modify the test for fixed correlation from a test for Fixed (F) to cover also correlations that are bound (B) or singular (S).

• Add tests on incoming fits for fixed correlation.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-22 (2021-10-01)

• Support is no longer provided in asremlPlus for versions of ASReml-R prior to version 4.0.

• Add a new argument allow.fixedcorrelation to changeModelOnIC.alldiffs, newfit.asreml, chooseModel.asrtests, changeTerms.asrtests, testranfix.asrtests, testresidual.asrtests, testswapran.asrtests and reparamSigDevn.asrtests so that a model with a fixed correlation parameter may be rejected.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-21 (2021-09-23)

• Fix a bug in pairdiffsTransform.alldiffs where the factors indexing the predictions were not generated correctly.

• In changeModelOnIC.alldiffs, add detection of absent terms to be dropped and do not change the model if one or more are detected.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-20 (2021-09-03)

• Fix bug in the calculation of false positives and negatives in exploreLSDs.alldiffs for LSDtype set to overall.

• Change default for plotHistogram in exploreLSDs.alldiffs to FALSE.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-19 (2021-09-01)

• Rebuild under R 4.1.1 for new submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-18 (2021-08-31)

• Change number of comparisons symbol in an LSD.frame from n to c.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-17 (2021-08-30)

• Add False positives and negatives counts to LSD statistics.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-16 (2021-08-24)

• Fix bug in redoErrorIntervals when only one factor in LSDby.

• Add function print.LSDdata.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-15 (2021-08-19)

• Fixed bug in halfLeastSignificant.limit when LSDtype is factor.combination and the assignedLSD is zero to now ensure that the limit is NA.

• Reinstated passing of parameters from linTransform.alldiffs to redoErrorIntervals.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-14 (2021-08-18)

• Fix newly introduced bug for LSDtype = "halfLeastSignificant" when there is not a numeric covariate involved in the LSDby argument.

• Stop extra frequency plot produced by exploreLSDs.

• Minor internal modification.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-13 (2021-08-16)

• Fix bug for LSDtype = "halfLeastSignificant" when there is a numeric covariate involved in the LSDby argument.

• Minor internal modification.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-12 (2021-08-11)

• Fix bug in pairdiffsTransform when only two factors in classify.

• Add function subset.list.

• Add functions exploreLSDs, plotLSDs.alldiffs, plotLSDs.matrix and plotLSDs.data.frame.

• Incorporate arguments retain.zerLSDs and zero.tolerance into AllDifferences.data.frame, redoErrotIntervals.alldiffs amd exploreLSDs.alldiffs to allow control of the retention of the zero LSD values when calculating LSD summaries.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-11 (2021-07-28)

• Deprecate the function asrtests, which has been replaced by the function as.asrtests.

• There has been a substantial revision of the calculation and saving of the LSD component of an alldiffs object.

  • The argument meanLSD.type has been changed to LSDtype. All functions that are S3 methods for alldiffs objects will check for the meanLSD.type attribute and, if found, change it to LSDtype.

  • The option supplied has been added to the argument LSDtype so that the user can supply LSD values to replace those in the assignedLSD column of the LSD component.

  • The two new arguments LSDstatistic and LSDaccuracy have been added. The argument LSDstatistic allows a choice of minimum, mean, median or maximum. The values of the nominated LSD statistics are stored in a column of the LSD component named assignedLSD. The argument LSDaccuracy allows the specification of a statistic summarizing the differences between the the LSDs and the assigned LSD value for each row of the LSD component. The values of the chosen measure are stored in a column of the LSD component named accuracyLSD. These two arguments have been added to the functions allDifferences.data.frame, as.alldiffs.object, as.alldiffs, linTransform.alldiffs, pairdiffsTransform, predictPlus.asreml, predictPresent.asreml, ratioTransform.alldiffs, recalcLSD.alldiffs and redoErrorIntervals.alldiffs.

  • The LSD component is always calculated and stored as a component when pairwise is TRUE.

• A new argument accuracy.threshold has been introduced to control the addition of a column names LSDwarning to the predictions of an alldiffs object. THis column indicates whether or not the an halfLeastSignificant error.interval is reliable as determined using the supplied value of accuracy.threshold.

• The attributes of an alldiffs object and of the predictions component have been modified. The arguments LSDtype, LSDstatistic and LSDby, if set, are attributes of an alldiffs object. They are also attributes of a prediction.frame and the backtransforms component of an alldiffs object, as is LSDvalues, when halfLeastSignificant error.intervals are specified. The LSDvalues attribute has the values used in calculating half-LSD intervals. The meanLSD attribute has been removed.

• A separate entry for LSD.frame has been introduced into the manual to dedscribe the data.frame that is stored in the LSD component of an alldiffs object.

asremlPlus Version 4.3-10 (2021-07-5)

• Fix bug in facRecast that meant that the argument levels.order was being ignored.

• Fix a bug in facRecast where only the predictions component was appropriately re-ordered.

• Add new functions ratioTransform.alldiffs and pairdiffsTransform.

• Add new method to sort for a predictions.frame: function sort.predictions.frame.

• Change the argument sortWithinVals to sortParallelToCombo in sort.alldiffs.

• Add the new argument sortNestinFactor to sort.alldiffs.

• Add new function getTestEntry.asrtests.

• Fix bug in infoCriteria.asreml that resulted in values of Inf for the full likelihood.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-36 (2021-05-16)

• Deprecate facRecode.alldiffs because it only make sense to redo the current levels or labels.

• Tidy up function facRecast.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-35 (2021-05-16)

• Add new function facRecast.alldiffs that supercedes facRecode.alldiffs.

• Revise sort.alldiffs to use facRecast.alldiffs to reorder the alldiffs components. This fixed a bug when not all levels of the saortFactor are present in the subset on which the sort is based.

• Add argument alpha to plotPvalues.data.frame and plotPvalues.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-34 (2021-05-12)

• Add argument axis.text.size to plotPvalues.data.frame and plotPvalues.alldiffs.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-33 (2021-05-06)

• Modify testresidual to not change the variance model when there is no difference in the variance DF between the models being compared.

• In as.asrtests, add variance DF to test.summary when forming an asrtests object.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-32 (2021-03-19)

• Rebuild vignerttes.

• Modify more links to asreml.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-31 (2021-03-19)

• Modify link to asreml.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-30 (2021-03-18)

• Revise doi specification in a link to a reference in the manual.

• Increment version number for resubmission.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-29 (2021-03-18)

• Increment version number for resubmission.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-28 (2021-03-17)

• Recompile for CRAN submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-27 (2021-03-13)

• Fix bugs in redoErrorIntervals.alldiff concerning whether or not meanLSD.type and LSDby settings result in the LSD component being recalculated.

• Add rowname overall to the LSD component when meanLSD.type is set to overall.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-26 (2020-11-11)

• Modify URLs for CRAN submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-25 (2020-11-11)

• Try to neutralize problem that occurs with colourise in print.predictions.frame.

• Rebuild for R 4.0.3 and recompile vignettes for CRAN submission.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-24 (2020-09-25)

• Include a key option in the which that produces vparametersummary rather than the full asremlsummary.

• Remove attributes from formuale when executing printFormulae.

• Add the ChickpeaEnd data set.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-23 (2020-09-07)

• Modify code so that error intervals are set to NA when the LSDs are zero.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-22 (2020-09-04)

• Modify code for calculating LSDs so that all zero LSDs are allowed; this is needed when a linear transformation has resulted in predictions that are equal.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-21 (2020-07-11)

• Rebuild the vignettes prior to CRAN submission.

• Add envir argument to getFormulae.asreml and printFormulae.asreml to make them more robust to where the objects in the asreml.obj have been defined.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-20 (2020-06-29)

• Fix bug in getFormulae.asreml and printFormulae.asreml that occurs when formula(e) have been supplied to asreml in an object.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-19 (2020-04-02)

• Change the Maintainer email address.

• Add ellipsis to as.asrtests call within an rmboundary.asrtests call so that arguments in the calling routine are passed through.

• Add a trap in recalcWaldTab.asrtests for a NULL wald.tab before dealing with denDF so that recalcWaldTab.asrtests throws a warning rather than an error.

• Modify recalcWaldTab.asrtests to deal with a Wald table that has Chi-square instead of F statistics (this happens when denDF = "none".)

asremlPlus Version 4.2-18 (2020-03-16)

• Increment version number for resubmission to CRAN.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-17 (2020-03-16)

• Fix bug in changeTerms when both addFixed and dropFixed are NULL.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-16 (2020-02-25)

• Revisions to the manual.

• Fix bug in forming test.summary.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-15 (2020-02-17)

• Added the IClikelihood argument to chooseModel.asrtests, reparamSigDevn.asrtests, rmboundary.asrtests, testranfix.asrtests, testresidual.asrtests, and testswapran.asrtests.

• Fix bug in printFormulae when the formula is long.

• Various bug fixes associated with asreml-R version 3.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-14 (2020-02-14)

• Fix bug in processing a formula that includes an at function.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-13 (2020-02-11)

• Removed the material.diff argument and the both option from the which.IC argument of changeModelOnIC.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-12 (2020-02-09)

• Change likelihood in infoCriteria to IClikelihood to make it consistent with other functions.

• Replace tol.diff with material.diff and set the default to 0.5 in changeModelOnIC.

• Revise all vignettes.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-11 (2020-02-08)

• Add a new vignette for the use of information criteria with the wheat experiment.

• Fixed bugs in changeModelOnIC associated with addFixed and dropFixed and with dealing with unconverged models.

asremlPlus Version 4.2-10 (2020-02-07)

• This version represents a major revision in that the facilities for employing information criteria (AIC and BIC) have been considerabley expanded. The infoCriteria method has been modified to add the possibility of calculating not only the the information criteria based on the REML likelihood, but those based on the full likelihood instead. There are now two infoCriteria methods, one for asreml objects and the other for lists of asreml objects. An alternative is to use changeTerms.asrtests wiith IClikelihood set to REML or full and the information criteria will be included in the The test.summary of the asrtest object. A new function changeModelOnIC has been included to allow model selection to be based on the information criteria, rather than on hypothesis tests. However, the two methods of selecting models can be interweaved.

• Add argument omit.columns to print.test.summary that allows the specification of columns to be omitted from the printout.

• Various modifications to the internal code for the handling of the test.summary component of an asrtest.object to allow more flexibility in the make up of test.summary.

• Add function iterate.asrtests to execute additional iterations of the fit stored in an asreml.obj within an asrtests object; the model itself cannot be changed.

• Add functions getFormulae.asreml and printFormulae.asreml to extract and print the formulae stored in the call of an asreml object.

• Add trace argument to newfit.asreml and activated it for asreml-R version 4.

• Made R >= 3.5.0 a requirement for asremlPlus.