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Mostly internal changes and corrections of bugs.
A vignette, Introduction, has been written to introduce the usage of the package, its classes and methods.
A getColumns function has been implemented for column
wise extraction of data, and other methods for data extraction are
now based on this function.
The getValue function is deprecated and replaced by
getNumerics and getFactors. A call of
getValue is now identical to a call of getNumerics
and returns a matrix instead of a Matrix.
The colNames has a new argument, type, to
extract column names for 'unit', 'factor',
'numeric', 'mark' and 'markValue' types of
columns only.
The ContinuousProcess class has been modified to hold
columns of discrete data (termed factors) in addition to numeric data.
The plot method for a ContinuousProcess
handles the factor columns in a sensible way.
More flexible constructors are now available for
constructing ContinuousProcess and
MarkedPointProcess objects from many combinations of data
formats.
A coarsen argument has been introduced for the
constructors of MarkedPointProcess objects. This allows for
coarsing event points to the observervation grid instead of adding
additional points to the grid.
str methods and object.size methods have been
implemented.
The show methods have been modified to print out only
a limited amount of structural information, and the summary
methods have taken over the role of computing and showing more
(summarized) information on the content of the objects.
The internal representations for all classes have been reimplemented and all objects from prior versions must be recreated from the original data.
The implementation does not use the Matrix class anymore.
The plot methods are now based on a formal S4 class instead
of a list, and a plot method is implemented for this
class. The class is, however, currently not exported.
Many parts of the code have been clarified and optimized,
for instance the implementation of the subset method.
A battery of unit tests based on RUnit has been added.