User-visible changes
- stabsel was recoded and now uses different terminology, much
more options and a better tested code base
- new replacement function mstop<- as an alternative to
[i] (suggested by Achim Zeileis).
- bmono
• new and faster algorithm to compute monotonic P-splines
(type = "quad.prog")
• new constraints added for positive and negative spline
estimates
- bbs
• allows monotone T-splines (experimental)
• new argument deriv to bbs for computing derivatives of
B-splines
- bmrf can now also handle neighborhood matrices as an argument
to bnd
- added new families Hurdle and Multinomial
- boost_control: added new argument stopintern for internal
stopping (based on oobag data) during fitting
- All data sets have been moved to the new package set TH.data
Miscellaneous
- added new argument which to variable.names()
- added new method risk to extract risks
- brandom now checks that a factor is given
- speed improvements when updating a model via mod[mstop]
- changed \dontrun to \donttest
- updated references
Bug-fixes
- fixed a problem with extract() of single base-learners
- fixed bug in AIC.mboost: df = "actset" can only be used with
glmboost models
- fixed package start up messages
- fixed a problem in mboost_fit (when names of base-learners were
missing)
