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 Older updates of the metafor package are archived on this page. More recent updates can be found [[updates|here]]. Older updates of the metafor package are archived on this page. More recent updates can be found [[updates|here]].
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 +==== Version 2.1-0 (2019-05-13) ====
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 +  * added ''formula()'' method for objects of class ''rma''
 +  * ''llplot()'' now also allows for ''measure="GEN"''; also, the documentation and y-axis label have been corrected to indicate that the function plots likelihoods (not log likelihoods)
 +  * ''confint.rma.mv()'' now returns an object of class ''list.confint.rma'' when obtaining CIs for all variance and correlation components of the model; added corresponding ''print.list.confint.rma()'' function
 +  * moved ''tol'' argument in ''permutest()'' to ''control'' and renamed the argument to ''comptol''
 +  * added ''PMM'' and ''GENQM'' estimators in rma.uni()
 +  * added ''vif()'' function to get variance inflation factors
 +  * added ''.glmulti'' object for making the interaction with glmulti easier
 +  * added ''reporter()'' and ''reporter.rma.uni()'' for dynamically generating analysis reports for objects of class ''rma.uni''
 +  * output is now styled/colored when ''crayon'' package is loaded (this only works on a 'proper' terminal with color support; also works in RStudio)
 +  * overhauled ''plot.gosh.rma()''; when ''out'' is specified, it now shows two distributions, one for the values when the outlier is included and one for the values when for outlier is excluded; dropped the ''hcol''argument and added ''border'' argument
 +  * refactored ''influence.rma.uni()'' to be more consistent internally with other functions; ''print.infl.rma.uni()'' and ''plot.infl.rma.uni()'' adjusted accordingly; functions ''cooks.distance.rma.uni()'', ''dfbetas.rma.uni()'', and ''rstudent.rma.uni()'' now call ''influence.rma.uni()'' for the computations
 +  * ''rstudent.rma.uni()'' now computes the SE of the deleted residuals in such a way that it will yield identical results to a mean shift outlier model even when that model is fitted with ''test="knha"''
 +  * ''rstandard.rma.uni()'' gains ''type'' argument, and can now also compute conditional residuals (it still computes marginal residuals by default)
 +  * ''cooks.distance.rma.mv()'' gains ''cluster'' argument, so that the Cook's distances can be computed for groups of estimates
 +  * ''cooks.distance.rma.mv()'' gains ''parallel'', ''ncpus'', and ''cl'' arguments and can now make use of parallel processing
 +  * ''cooks.distance.rma.mv()'' should be faster by using the estimates from the full model as starting values when fitting the models with the ith study/cluster deleted from the dataset
 +  * ''cooks.distance.rma.mv()'' gains ''reestimate'' argument; when set to ''FALSE'', variance/correlation components are not reestimated
 +  * ''rstandard.rma.mv()'' gains ''cluster'' argument for computing cluster-level multivariate standardized residuals
 +  * added ''rstudent.rma.mv()'' and ''dfbetas.rma.mv()''
 +  * smarter matching of elements in ''newmods'' (when using a named vector) in ''predict()'' that also works for models with interactions (thanks to Nicole Erler for pointing out the problem)
 +  * ''rma.uni()'' and ''rma.mv()'' no longer issue (obvious) warnings when user constrains ''vi'' or ''V'' to 0 (i.e., ''vi=0'' or ''V=0'', respectively)
 +  * ''rma.mv()'' does more intelligent filtering based on ''NAs'' in ''V'' matrix
 +  * ''rma.mv()'' now ensures strict symmetry of any (var-cov or correlation) matrices specified via the ''R'' argument
 +  * fixed ''rma.mv()'' so checks on ''R'' argument run as intended; also fixed an issue when multiple formulas with slashes are specified via ''random'' (thanks to Andrew Loignon for pointing out the problem)
 +  * suppressed showing calls on some warnings/errors in ''rma.mv()''
 +  * ''rma.mv()'' now allows for a continuous-time autoregressive random effects structure (''struct="CAR"'') and various spatial correlation structures (''struct="SPEXP"'', ''"SPGAU"'', ''"SPLIN"'', ''"SPRAT"'', and ''"SPSPH"'')
 +  * ''rma.mv()'' now allows for ''struct="GEN"'' which models correlated random effects for any number of predictors, including continuous ones (i.e., this allows for 'random slopes')
 +  * in the various ''forest()'' functions, when ''options(na.action="na.pass")'' or ''options(na.action="na.exclude")'' and an annotation contains ''NA'', this is now shown as a blank (instead of ''NA [NA, NA]'')
 +  * the various ''forest()'' and ''addpoly()'' functions gain a ''fonts'' argument
 +  * the various ''forest()'' functions gain a ''top'' argument
 +  * the various ''forest()'' functions now show correct point sizes when the weights of the studies are exactly the same
 +  * ''forest.cumul.rma()'' gains a ''col'' argument
 +  * ''funnel.default()'' and ''funnel.rma()'' can now take vectors as input for the ''col'' and ''bg'' arguments (and also for ''pch''); both functions also gain a ''legend'' argument
 +  * ''addpoly()'' functions can now also show prediction interval bounds
 +  * removed 'formula interface' from ''escalc()''; until this actually adds some kind of extra functionality, this just makes ''escalc()'' more confusing to use
 +  * ''escalc()'' can now compute the coefficient of variation ratio and the variability ratio for pre-post or matched designs (''"CVRC"'', ''"VRC"'')
 +  * ''escalc()'' does a bit more housekeeping
 +  * added (currently undocumented) arguments ''onlyo1'', ''addyi'', and ''addvi'' to ''escalc()'' that allow for more flexibility when computing certain bias corrections and when computing sampling variances for measures that make use of the ''add'' and ''to'' arguments
 +  * ''escalc()'' now sets ''add=0'' for measures where the use of such a bias correction makes little sense; this applies to the following measures: ''"AS"'', ''"PHI"'', ''"RTET"'', ''"IRSD"'', ''"PAS"'', ''"PFT"'', ''"IRS"'', and ''"IRFT"''; one can still force the use of the bias correction by explicitly setting the ''add'' argument to some non-zero value
 +  * added ''clim'' argument to ''summary.escalc()''
 +  * added ''ilim'' argument to ''trimfill()''
 +  * ''labbe()'' gains ''lty'' argument
 +  * ''labbe()'' now (invisibly) returns a data frame with the coordinates of the points that were drawn (which may be useful for manual labeling of points in the plot)
 +  * added a print method for ''profile.rma'' objects
 +  * ''profile.rma.mv()'' now check whether any of the profiled log-likelihood values is larger than the log-likelihood of the fitted model (using numerical tolerance given by ''lltol'') and issues a warning if so
 +  * ''profile.rma.uni()'', ''profile.rma.mv()'', and ''plot.profile.rma()'' gain ''cline'' argument; ''plot.profile.rma()'' gains ''xlim'', ''ylab'', and ''main'' arguments
 +  * fixed an issue with ''robust.rma.mv()'' when the model was fitted with ''sparse=TRUE'' (thanks to Roger Martineau for noting the problem)
 +  * various method functions (''fitted()'', ''resid()'', ''predict()'', etc.) behave in a more consistent manner when model omitted studies with missings
 +  * ''predict.rma()'' gains ''vcov'' argument; when set to ''TRUE'', the variance-covariance matrix of the predicted values is also returned
 +  * ''vcov.rma()'' can now also return the variance-covariance matrix of the fitted values (''type="fitted"'') and the residuals (''type="resid"'')
 +  * added ''`$<-`'' and ''as.matrix()'' methods for ''list.rma'' objects
 +  * fixed error in ''simulate.rma()'' that would generate too many samples for ''rma.mv'' models
 +  * added undocumented argument ''time'' to all model fitting functions; if set to ''TRUE'', the model fitting time is printed
 +  * added more tests (also for parallel operations); also, all tests updated to use proper tolerances instead of rounding
 +  * reorganized the documentation a bit
  
 ==== Version 2.0-0 (2017-06-22) ==== ==== Version 2.0-0 (2017-06-22) ====
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