News for Package 'msgl'

Changes in msgl version 2.3.7 (2018-10-18)

• Original author and previous maintainer, Martin Vincent, has stopped development. This version is released by a new maintainer. Changes from version 2.3.6 are only to comply to CRAN policies.

Changes in msgl version 2.3.6 (2017-03-03)

• Bug fixes

Changes in msgl version 2.3.5 (2016-12-28)

• API changes: msgl.lambda.seq deprecated use msgl::lambda, msgl deprecated use msgl::fit, msgl.cv deprecated use msgl::cv, msgl.subsampling deprecated use msgl::subsampling

• fit, cv and subsampling supports relative lambda

• Code cleanup, bug fixes and refactoring

• Removed non-generic default sample weights from cv – this may imply that the lambda sequence needs adjustment to reach the same results.

Changes in msgl version 2.3.0 (2016-09-28)

• added quick-start vignette

• added functions for extracting number of nonzero features and parameters (feature_stat and parameter_stat)

• seed argument removed

• minor fixes and updates

• Better handling of R memory protection (fewer PROTECT calls)

• subsampling uses foreach and doParallel (showing a progressbar is no longer supported for subsampling and cross validation)

• subsampling now supports different lambda sequences for each subsample

Changes in msgl version 2.2.0 (2015-09-16)

• Improved reliability and usability: prefix printing; correct handling of non penalized parameters when computing lambda.max (fit non penalized parameters before computing critical lambdas); increased speed when optimizing with a high number of groups/classes (> 100); some improvements on error reporting and argument validation

• fixed bug related to grouping

• fixed seval minor bugs

• fixed startup messages