NEWS

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mrbayes 0.5.2.9000

• The minimum version of R is now 4.2.0 due to the requirements of the DescTools package.

mrbayes 0.5.2 (2024-08-19)

• The NAMESPACE now imports fewer functions from other packages.

• The number of dependency packages has been reduced.

• Added a CITATION file.

• The datasets are now compressed.

• Maintainer switched to TP.

mrbayes 0.5.1 (2021-10-02)

• The mvmr_egger_rjags() helpfile example is now only run if the rjags package is installed.

mrbayes 0.5.0 (2021-09-21)

• The examples in the helpfiles for all functions and in the testthat test files now check whether the relevant Bayesian software package is installed (i.e. rstan or rjags). This is because JAGS does not compile on the aarch64 (Apple M1 processor) architecture.

mrbayes 0.4.0 (2021-07-13)

• Additional checks for installation of JAGS.

mrbayes 0.3.0 (2021-04-01)

• Additional functions for multivariate IVW and MR-Egger using JAGS and rstan

mrbayes 0.2.0 (2020-05-28)

• IVW implemented using rstan.

• MR-Egger implemented using rstan.

• Radial MR-Egger implemented using rstan.

mrbayes 0.1.0 (2019-09-04)

• IVW, MR-Egger, and their radial versions implemented using JAGS.