RSiena 1.3.0

2021-05-02

Changes in RSiena:

• Drop testthat in tests.

RSiena 1.2.34

2021-04-30

Changes in RSiena:

New functions:

• testSame.RSiena.

Effects:

• New effects: avInSim (thanks to Steffen Triebel), totInSim, avInSimPopAlt, totInSimPopAlt, constant, avAttHigher, avAttLower, totAttHigher, totAttLower.
• Changed effects: endowment and creation types for avInSim (brought in line with these types for avSim).

Improvements of functionality:

• funnelPlot adapted to lists of sienaFit objects containing missing estimates or standard errors.
• plot.sienaGOF: new parameter “position”.
• Small improvements (length of effect names) in meta.table and siena.table.

Bug corrections

• Restore backward compatibility with respect to checks of x$gmm.
  
• In test functions: correct names reported for tested effects by using ans\(requestedEffects instead of ans\)effects.

Code improvements

• Improved coding of SimilarityEffect, using new parts of NetworkDependentBehaviorEffect.
  
• Changed unsigned actors to int in Continuousvariable and EpochSimulation;
  int …EffectCounts to unsigned in BehaviorVariable, to avoid warnings in C++ compilation.
• Changed name of similarity(int i, int j) to actor_similarity in order to avoid confusion with similarity(double v1, double v2).

Corrections

• Took out of NAMESPACE a few imported functions from graphics, stats, utils that were not used.
  
• Correction of footer of CovariateDistance2EgoAltSimNetworkFunction.h.

RSiena 1.2.33

2021-03-19

Changes in RSiena:

• Adjusted configure, cleanup and Makevars files for just C++ checks.
• Pandoc dropped as a system requirement.

RSiena 1.2.32

2021-03-16

Changes in RSiena:

Effects:

• New effects: homXTransRecTrip, toU.
• This implied creation of a new effect class dyadANetNetObjective.
• sqrt versions for parameter 2 for the effects to, toBack, toRecip, from, fromMutual.
• Effects to, toU, toBack, toRecip, MixedInXW are dyadic.
• Reinstated effect MixedInXW, also with sqrt version for parameter 2.
• Dropped effect to.2 (identical to “to”) and MixedInWX (identical to “toBack”).

Improvements of functionality:

• effectsDocumentation now also includes gmm effects (at the bottom).
• Improved fromObjectToLaTeX in meta.table and siena.table.
• Display of deviations from targets changed to after subtraction of targets.
• Stop if no parameters are estimated and simOnly is FALSE (initializeFRAN).

Reduction of functionality:

• Vignette basicRSiena.Rmd dropped (available at website).

Documentation:

• Extended description of GMoM in the manual.
• Description of toBack and toRecip in manual.
• Changed keyword for some help pages.

Corrections / safeguards

• Correction in phase3.2 of a bug that sometimes led to an error message if simOnly.
• oneModeNet in effects.r: some further cases where the comparison of types with ‘behavior’ is replaced by comparison with c(‘behavior’, ‘continuous’).
• Extra check in phase1.2.
• Temporarily drop the final part of test16, in view of an irreproducible error.

More neat code:

• Dropped MixedOutStarFunction, MixedInStarFunction, MixedTwoPathFunction, (their functionality replaced by MixedTwoStepFunction).
• Dropped MixedTwoStepFunction from effects (its place is in effects, and that’s were it is).

RSiena 1.2-31

2021-02-27

Changes in RSiena:

• Generalized method of Moments implemented (Viviana Amati): see docs_RSiena_GMoM.tex; new function includeGMoMStatistics, extended functionality of siena07.
• Require R >= 3.5.0.
• xtable added to “Imports” (used to be in “Suggests”).
• dyadicCov made to accept also changing dyadic covariates.
• Used ‘verbose’ condition in sienaGOF also for last console output.
• new arguments plotAboveThreshold and verbose for funnelPlot.

RSiena 1.2.30

2021-02-23

Changes in RSiena:

• Resolved issue with continuous dependent behavior variables (Nynke Niezink).

RSiena 1.2-29

2020-12-10

Changes in RSiena:

• New effects (due to Christoph Stadtfeld): transtrip.FR, transtrip.FE, transtrip.EE, WWX.EE, WWX.FR, WXX.FE, WXX.ER, XWX.ER, XWX.FE, to.2, toBack, toRecip.
• New effect transtripX.
• New functions meta.table and funnelPlot.
• For effect from.w.ind, option parameter=-1 added.
• The to effect is an ego effect.
• New parameter ‘tested’ in sienaGOF.
• For siena.table, some of the effectNames changed to nice strings, so that LaTeX can run without errors if type=‘tex’.
• The object produced by siena08 now has IWLS estimates more easily accessible, as object\(muhat and object\)se.muhat.
• Error message in sienaTimeTest for sienaFit objects produced with lessMem=TRUE.
• More extensive error message for error in named vectors in algorithm object (checkNames in initializeFRAN).
• For sienaDataCreate: more extensive error message, and class(…) replaced by class(…)[1].
• multiplication factor added to print.sienaAlgorithm if maxlike.
• In sienaAlgorithmCreate: requirements for mult corrected in help page.
• In sienaAlgorithmCreate, use the definitions for projname=NULL also if any environment variable _R_CHECK* is set.

RSiena 1.2-28

2020-09-30

Changes in RSiena:

• Adapted filter “disjoint” so that it operates correctly also when the network is symmetric. Consequence: constraint that two networks are disjoint operates correctly also when one of the networks is symmetric and the other is not.
• Adapted filter “higher” so that it operates correctly also when the other network is symmetric. Consequence: constraint that one network is at least as high as another network operates correctly also when the higher networks is symmetric and the other is not.
• In “CheckConstraints”, used in “sienaDataCreate”, the requirement was dropped that the two networks have the same symmetry property; and for “higher” it is required that if the lower network is symmetric, the higher network is also symmetric.
• In “sienaDataConstraint”, if type is “disjoint” or “atLeastOne”, the constraint is also implemented for the pair (net2, net1).
• Vignette basicRSiena added (was earlier available as a script); thanks to James Hollway.

RSiena 1.2-26

2020-09-17

Changes in RSiena:

• Changed requirement for tcltk to “Suggests”, and further modified / cleaned up DESCRIPTION.
• In siena07: if (!requireNamespace(“tcltk”)) set batch to TRUE.
• In NAMESPACE drop tcltk
• In sienaAlgorithmCreate, use the definitions for projname=NULL also if any environment variable _R_CHECK* is set.