• included warnings in stabsel() for better guidance of the user: • A warning is issued if the upper bound for the FWER in stability selection is greater (by a certain margin) than the specified bound. • A warning is also issued if mstop is too small to select q variables.
  • improved output of errors and warnings in stabsel.
  • suppress the notes from package Matrix about method ambiguity ("Note: method with signature ... chosen, ... would also be valid")
  • updated manual on base-learners to reflect the change in the default for degrees of freedom (additionally, all options are now discussed in a separate section of the base-learner manual)
  • updated vignette mboost_tutorial
  • updated mboost_package.Rd: now all important changes since mboost 2.0 are documented there
  • changed roles of contributors to ctb
  • suggested packages are now only used inside if(require(pkg)) statements
  • changed start up message