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Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

Prova v1.9.1

  • Fixed a bug that prevented use of pre-existing parallel cluster.

Prova v1.9.0

  • The package does not require the package ‘extraDistr’ any longer.
  • Internal changes to some functions.
  • Improved and more consistent digit-rounding system for print() output of probabilities.
  • Fixed some bugs in the use of Pr() with base-rate correction (non-null argument ‘priorY’).
  • Changed the class of mutual information objects to “mi”.
  • Introduced a print() method for mutual-information objects.
  • Improved print() display for probability and mutual-information objects.
  • Improved plot.probability(); singular probability (e.g. at censored values) are now displayed on a separate scale.
  • Changed the behaviour of the TRUE value of argument parallel =: now it queries the value of the user’s option “cl.cores”, via getOption(), or uses 2 if that value is NULL (this is the same behaviour as in R’s documentation for the clusterApply functions).
  • Updated documentation.
  • Re-tested some functions.
  • Cleaned some code.

Prova v1.2.0

  • The function mutualinfo() now only outputs the mutual information (and not conditional entropies or entropies), but it also outputs the “revisability” of the values in view of a much larger dataset.
  • New functions plot.MI() and print.MI() for plotting and printing mutual information and its revisability.
  • Slight changes in plotting and printing outputs.
  • The vignette about mutual information now has an additional section about the revisability of mutual information.
  • Small internal changes in how synthetic datapoints are generated.
  • Corrected a bug affecting computation of probabilities for censored, non-rounded variates.
  • Corrected a bug affecting computation of cumulative probabilities (‘tails =’ argument) of ordinal variates.
  • Corrected typos in documentation.

Prova v1.0.0

CRAN release: 2026-07-16

  • First CRAN release
  • Improved documentation, also of internal functions.
  • Introduced argument verbose = in several function, so as to show information to console only if the user so desires. This argument is FALSE for all functions except learn().
  • Added example of imputation in vignette.
  • Rewritten README with description of the package’s main features.
  • Removed unused functions.
  • Cleaned up code.

Prova v0.7.0

  • Initial CRAN submission.
  • Introduced the print() method for probability objects.
  • Slightly modified output of Pr() and related functions.
  • Added references.
  • Modified vignettes.
  • Added examples to all functions visible to the user.
  • Fixed some bugs (in particular a bug that would allow the input of a non-existent nominal value giving erroneous probabilities).
  • Corrected typos.

Prova v0.6.0

  • Renamed the package from inferno to Prova. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that the name “inferno” was already in use for several inference-related software packages of various kinds.