NEWS

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smerc 1.8

• Add neast.
• Add gedist function to remove dependency on sp package.
• Add primes100k data set to sysdata.rda to remove dependency on randtoolbox package.
• Add nclusters function.
• Remove nysf and nypoly rda files from data. Replace with functions that create them from nysf. This is related to the point below.
• Remove sp from Depends and move to Suggests.

smerc 1.7

• Improve efficiency of scan.test and elliptic.test by removing redundancies.
• Replace NEWS file with NEWS.md file
• Fix bug in scan.test when the population size of each region is identical.
• Add nysf and nysp data sets, along with better descriptions.

smerc 1.6 (2022-01-31)

• Add constant-risk version of Moran's I.
• Correct parallel processing bug (thanks to Insang Song).

smerc 1.5 (2021-10-01)

• Add function to easily extract clusters.

smerc 1.4 (2021-02-06)

• Add optimal_ubpop for choosing a population upper bound.

smerc 1.3 (2020-10-07)

• Create flex_zones and flex_test to use C++ code for speed.
• Add vignette regarding how to use package.

smerc 1.2 (2020-05-26)

• Update *.test functions to return 'smerc_cluster' class instead of 'scan' class.
• Create print, plot, and summary functions for smerc_cluster class. Add ex argument to bn.test.
• Improve speed of flex.zones function.

smerc 1.1 (2019-09-19)

• Add cepp.test (and related).
• Fix some documentation.

smerc 1.0 (2019-07-14)

• Add lots of methods (dc.test, fast.test, mlink.test, rflex.test, etc.)
• Dramatic restructure of many functions.

smerc 0.4.5 (2018-04-19)

• Fix small bug in computing p-value for bn.test (unmodified).
• Add test for bn.test (modified).