NEWS

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modEvA 3.33

(Committed 2025-03-19) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • interval="auto" now 0.01 or 0.001 depending on 'pred' coverage
  • added cex.lab argument
  • improved axis labels

• MillerCalib, lollipop

  • slightly changed default colours

Other modified files:

• NEWS
  • reformatted and converted to .md

modEvA 3.32

(Committed 2025-03-18)

Modified functions:

• plotCoeffs
  • return also data frame with the results
  • improve Details section

modEvA 3.31

(Committed 2025-03-05)

Modified functions:

• varImp

  • added option "permutation" for argument 'imp.type' (pending implementation for BART models)
  • added partial argument matching
  • added arguments 'n.per', 'data' and 'n.trees' for some model classes when imp.type="permutation"
  • implemented also for 'maxnet' models if imp.type = "permutation"

• mod2obspred

  • added option x.only = FALSE; if TRUE, the values of the predictors are returned instead (for varImp if imp.type = "permutation")

• AUC

  • 'interval' new default "auto", to make it smaller as 'pred' mean departs from 0.5

modEvA 3.30 (2025-02-21)

(Committed 2025-02-21) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• AUC, Boyce, lollipop (affecting threshMeasures), optiPair
  • fixed opar() reset bug: reset only the changed parameter 'mgp'

modEvA 3.29 (2025-02-16)

(Committed 2025-02-14) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• lollipop (-> varImp, ploCoeffs, threshMeasures, similarity, RsqGLM)
  • removed 'axis.lab' argument for back-compatibility issues
  • improved handling of plot arguments provided under \dots, namely xlab and ylab when horiz is either TRUE or FALSE

modEvA 3.28

(Committed 2025-02-10)

Modified functions:

• lollipop

  • better distribution between plot limits when two lollipops
  • renamed argument "horizontal" to "horiz", to match barplot()
  • added 'axis.lab' argument, to use as xlab or ylab depending on 'horiz'

• plotCoeffs

  • added 'labels' argument

• varImp

  • fixed when horizontal = TRUE

• threshMeasures, similarity

  • changed 'las' from 3 to 2

modEvA 3.27

(Committed 2025-01-28)

Modified functions:

• lollipop

  • 'bold' default FALSE, not NULL

• plotCoeffs

  • empty plot if no variables in model

Other modified files:

• lollipop.Rd, plotCoeffs.Rd, varImp.Rd
  • improved Description, Examples, and See also

modEvA 3.26

(Committed 2025-01-27)

Modified functions:

• lollipop
  • new argument "horizontal"
  • "sticks" can also be a matrix of confidence limits

New functions:

• plotCoeffs
  • uses lollipop() with confidence intervals

Other modified files:

• evaluate.Rd
  • improved definitions of a, b, c, and d, relating with TP, FP, TN, FN

modEvA 3.25

(Committed 2024-12-27)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • new default line colour and diagonal line type
  • xlab closer to axis, to match 2nd line of ylab and fit in default margins
  • values also closer to axes

• Boyce

  • labels and values closer to axes
  • new colours for points and for plot text
  • new position for plot text
  • new symbol (triangle) for red points

• optiPair

  • plot values closer to axes
  • new arguments 'col1' and 'col2' for plot point colours

• optiThresh

  • plot values and axis labels closer to axes
  • new plot arguments 'pch', 'cex' and 'col', with new default colours and symbols
  • plot margins adjusted also when fewer than 4 measures
  • fixed 'xlab' argument, which wasn't being considered

modEvA 3.24

(Committed 2024-12-18)

Modified functions:

• MillerCalib
  • changed default line colours to blues
  • lwd = 2 for calibration line
  • intercept in parentheses in plot text
  • help file now mentions Baquero et al.'s thresholds for a good slope

modEvA 3.23 (2024-11-24)

(Committed 2024-11-24) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• lollipop

  • new argument ylim [to replace ymin, futurely deprecated], default "auto0"

• threshMeasures, similarity

  • change default ymin to 0 (default ylim "auto0") when min value is >0, to avoid deceiving plots
  • allow plot=TRUE with simplif=FALSE

• optiThresh, multModEv

  • added plot=FALSE to some threshMeasures() calls

modEvA 3.22

(Committed 2024-11-19)

Modified functions:

• varImp
  • new default "auto0" for 'ylim', to avoid deceiving plots

modEvA 3.21

(Committed 2024-11-19)

Modified functions:

• predDensity

  • in plot legend, changed "absences" to "background" if pbg = TRUE

• optiThresh

  • added 'reset.par' argument
  • 'sep.plots' argument can be set to NA

• Boyce, Dsquared, errorMeasures, getThreshold, logLike, MillerCalib, optiPair, plotGLM, predPlot, RMSE

  • added 'verbosity' argument and passed it to inputMunch()

• confusionMatrix, getBins, HLfit, predDensity, similarity

  • passed 'verbosity' argument to inputMunch()

modEvA 3.20 (2024-10-29)

(Committed 2024-10-28) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• inputMunch, applyThreshold, AUC, Boyce, Dsquared, getThreshold, optiPair, optiThresh, predPlot, similarity, threshMeasures (not confusionMatrix, confusionLabel, errorMeasures, getBins, HLfit, logLike, MillerCalib, plotGLM, RMSE)

  • added 'pbg' argument

• predDensity

  • added also 'verbosity' argument
  • message when 'separate' automatically set to FALSE because 'ci' not NA

• Boyce

  • changed colour of plot text to grey50, to increase visibility when overlapping points

modEvA 3.19

(Committed 2024-10-02)

New functions:

• errorMeasures (incl. RMSE, MSE, Brier score)

Modified functions:

• RMSE
  • warning: function deprecated in favour of errorMeasures

Other modified files:

• quantReclass.Rd

  • update Formoso-Freire ref with publication date

• DESCRIPTION

  • added contributors

modEvA 3.18.2 (2024-08-28)

(Committed 2024-08-28) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• predDensity
  • slightly improved plot colours for better contrast
  • added legend when CI not NA

Other modified files:

• predDensity.Rd
  • slight improvements to increase clarity

modEvA 3.18.1

(Committed 2024-08-09)

Modified functions:

• mod2obspred

  • implemented class 'GBMFit' (pkg 'gbm3') when obs.only=FALSE

• predDensity

  • adapted x-axis values for predictors outside range [0, 1] when type="histogram"
  • changed plot colours

Other modified files:

• inputMuch.Rd

  • added mention to class 'GBMFit' for 'model'

• predDensity.Rd

  • added mention to 'predictor' values

modEvA 3.18

(Committed 2024-08-08)

Modified functions:

• mod2obspred, varImp
  • implemented class 'GBMFit' from pkg 'gbm3'

modEvA 3.17.1

(Committed 2024-06-07)

Modified files:

• varImp.Rd
  • second example now uses new argument 'relative'
  • improved descriptions and Details

modEvA 3.17 (2024-06-06)

(Committed 2024-06-06) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• varImp
  • 'relative' argument now applies also to BART and flexBART models
  • adapted to latest version of flexBART, which does carry variable names
  • informative error messages when model is BART and doesn't have the required info
  • added 'verbosity' argument

modEvA 3.16

(Committed 2024-06-05)

Modified functions:

• optiThresh

  • added 'verbosity' argument to pass to inputMunch()
  • abline() now plotted also if 'optimize' is a specific measure name, not necessarily "each"

• AUC

  • added 'verbosity' argument to pass to inputMunch()

• varImp

  • added 'relative' argument for z value (suggested by Alba Estrada)

modEvA 3.15

(Committed 2024-03-25)

Modified functions:

• threshMeasures, evaluate, modEvAmethods
  • added 'ORSS' and 'SEDI' metrics (Wunderlich et al. 2019) (suggested by Jose Carlos Guerrero)

modEvA 3.14

(Committed 2024-02-01)

New functions:

• logLike

Modified functions:

• predDensity
  • added 'xlim' argument

modEvA 3.13.3 (2024-01-19)

(Committed 2024-01-19) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• threshMeasures

  • set plot=FALSE on confusionMatrix() call

• confusionMatrix

  • set default 'plot' to FALSE (for back-compatibility)

modEvA 3.13.2

(Committed 2024-01-18)

Modified functions:

• confusionMatrix
  • add arguments plot=TRUE, classes=FALSE and ...

modEvA 3.13.1

(Committed 2024-01-17)

Modified functions:

• confusionLabel
  • assign consistent colours to output raster categories
  • add plot=TRUE and ... arguments

modEvA 3.13

(Committed 2024-01-16)

Modified functions:

• confusionLabel
  • output SpatRaster (if input 'pred' is SpatRaster) now properly categorical

Other modified files:

• AUC.Rd
  • unimplemented argument 'FPR.limits' now suggests using 'pROC::roc'

modEvA 3.12

(Committed 2023-12-14)

Modified functions:

• applyThreshold, inputMunch

  • added 'verbosity' argument to pass to ptsrast2obspred()

• AUC

  • added 'grid.lty' argument (used e.g. in modevapp)
  • 'grid' now at 0.1 (not threshold) intervals

• getThreshold

  • finished implementing 'maxF'
  • implemented maxJaccard, maxSorensen (= maxF)

• optiThresh

  • replaced single with double ||, &&
  • added modEvAmethods("similarity") to default 'measures'
  • added maxJaccard and maxSorensen criteria

• modEvAmethods

  • added Jaccard, Sorensen and their maximizations

• arrangePlots

  • return c(1, 1) if n.plots <= 1

Other modified files:

• Boyce.Rd

  • 'Note' now mentions that Boyce is designed for suitability or favourability, not probability

• similarity.Rd

  • 'Description' and 'Details' now mention equivalence to Li & Guo's F-measures

modEvA 3.11 (2023-11-25)

(Committed 2023-11-25) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• Dsquared
  • added dismo.version argument: if FALSE, uses the previous version of Dsquared, as the dismo version sometimes produces negative or NaN results

modEvA 3.10 (2023-11-12)

(Committed 2023-11-10) -> CRAN

New functions:

• quantReclass

• similarity

Modified functions:

• modEvAmethods
  • added methods for similarity()

modEvA 3.9.6

(Committed 2023-10-04)

Modified functions:

• Dsquared

  • warning emitted and Dsquared calculated correctly even when family binomial and response not binary (following bug report by Elic M. Weitzel)

• varImp

  • metric reported in console result
  • absolute (rather than original) values now returned for z value (if model is glm)

• AUC

  • added 'GiniCoefficient' to outputs when simplif=FALSE

modEvA 3.9.5

(Committed 2023-01-02)

Modified functions:

• varImp
  • barplot now also gets error bars replotted on top of points if plot.points=TRUE
  • implemented for models of class "lbart" and "pbart" of pkg 'BART' (though not ideal for group.cats = TRUE)
  • group.cats default now FALSE
  • started implementation for flexBART models (still imperfect because object has no var names; issue submitted at https://github.com/skdeshpande91/flexBART/issues/8)

modEvA 3.9.4

(Committed 2023-04-26)

Modified functions:

• varImp
  • new argument group.cats=TRUE, for BART models, to sum up the contributions of (one-hot encoded) categorical variable levels

modEvA 3.9.3 (2023-04-14)

(Committed 2023-04-14) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• AUC
  • 'method' default now NULL, to avoid unsolicited warning when curve="PR" because default method was "rank"

Other modified files:

• varImp.Rd
  • improved info on parameters for different plot types (e.g. cex.axis for lollipop, cex.names for barplot)

modEvA 3.9.2

(Committed 2023-03-19)

Modified functions:

• Boyce

  • explicit warning instead of obscure error if 'obs' has no presences
  • warning also when 'obs' has only presences (Boyce = NA)

• optiThresh

  • explicit warning (and results NA) instead of obscure error if 'obs' has either no presences or no absences
  • empty plot instead of error for incalculable metrics

• threshMeasures

  • explicit warning instead of obscure error if 'obs' has either no presences or no absences

modEvA 3.9.1

(Committed 2023-02-26)

Modified functions:

• varImp

  • error if family is not 'binomial', to avoid obscure error otherwise because no 'z-value' column in summary

• confusionMatrix, confusionLabel

  • changed defaults 'interval = interval, quant = quant' to 'interval = 0.01, quant = 0'

Other modified files:

• CITATION
  • replaced old-style personList() with c(), and citEntry() with bibentry(), as per new CRAN requirements

modEvA 3.9 (2023-01-13)

(Committed 2023-01-12) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• varImp

  • corrected point locations (accounting for space between bars) for barplot
  • error.bars in lollipop chart re-plotted on top to improve visibility
  • help file cites Weissgerber et al.

• predDensity

  • 'ci' now plotted as semi-transparent rectangle (rather than just vertical ablines)
  • added 'ci' example to help file

modEvA 3.8.9

(Committed 2023-01-11)

Modified functions:

• varImp

  • implemented plot.points argument
  • arguments 'ci' and 'ci.type' replaced by argument 'error.bars'
  • 'error.bars' can also be a numeric for a x% confidence interval
  • added 'grid' argument
  • added "imp.type" argument (placeholder, so far only option "each")
  • set 'border' to NA in legend and barplot
  • fixed legend colour bug
  • added check for loaded 'gbm' when needed

• predDensity

  • added 'ci' argument
  • added '...' for arguments to pass to 'hist'

modEvA 3.8.8

(Committed 2023-01-05)

New functions:

• RMSE

• lollipop

Modified functions:

• varImp

  • added "ylim" argument (default "auto"), and xpd=FALSE to 'barplot' call
  • changed default positive colour for better contrast with CI lines in barplot
  • new default plot.type = "lollipop"

• threshMeasures

  • "OddsRatio" removed from default 'measures'
  • 'ylim' argument removed (default 0,1 not needed after OddsRation removal; 'ylim' can still be used under '...')
  • new argument 'plot.type'
  • new default plot.type = "lollipop"

• RsqGLM

  • new argument 'plot.type'
  • new default plot.type = "lollipop"

modEvA 3.8.7

(Committed 2022-12-22)

New functions:

• varImp

Modified functions:

• mod2obspred
  • added supressMessages() when predicting with GBM

modEvA 3.8.6

(Committed 2022-12-20)

Modified functions:

• Dsquared
  • 'family' is now guessed from data (with message) if null
  • extended to models other than GLM

modEvA 3.8.5

(Committed 2022-11-06)

Modified functions:

• ptsrast2obspred

  • added (or 'rm.dup.points=TRUE' for 'Boyce' function) to warning, otherwise Boyce would say "argument X matches multiple formal arguments"

• MilerCalib

  • added final empty line

modEvA 3.8.4 (2022-10-30)

(Committed 2022-10-28) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• applyThreshold
  • added "as.numeric" to 'sort(tresh)', otherwise it was character if one of the input 'thresh' criteria was character, which generated errors downstream

modEvA 3.8.3

(Committed 2022-10-27)

Modified functions:

• predPlot

  • 'thresh' can now be set to NA or NULL
  • legend is also changed accordingly

• optiThresh

  • warning emitted if obs are all 0 or all 1 (which may originate errorr) - propagates to optiPair

Other modified files:

• MillerCalib.Rd
  • added explanations and examples on applicability to non-logit link models and non-probability predictions

modEvA 3.8.2

(Committed 2022-07-21)

Modified functions:

• varPart
  • added argument 'cor.method'
  • changed previous argument name 'method' to 'pred.type', to avoid confusion with the above

modEvA 3.8.1

(Committed 2022-07-20)

Modified functions:

• varPart
  • argument 'model' now accepts glms of any family (but properly tested only for binomial!)

modEvA 3.8

(Committed 2022-07-20)

Modified functions:

• varPart
  • new arguments 'model', 'groups', 'method', 'return.models'
  • output table now doesn't say "pure" or "overlap", just the factor names separated by "_"
  • argument 'coloured' changed to 'colr' to avoid English/American spelling issues

modEvA 3.7

(Committed 2022-07-10)

Modified functions:

• applyThreshold
  • 'thresh' can now be of length 2, for high, intermediate and low predictions

Other modified files:

• DESCRIPTION
  • added reference about the method, as suggested by Uwe Ligges after previous CRAN submission

modEvA 3.6

(Committed 2022-06-14)

New functions:

• confusionMatrix

Modified functions:

• confusionLabel

  • added 'getThreshold' to include all 'thresh' options
  • added 'interval' and 'quant' arguments for the above
  • 'rm.dup' now defaults to FALSE to assume less

• threshMeasures

  • moved part of the code to new 'confusionMatrix' function, which is now called from here

modEvA 3.5 (2022-06-01)

(Committed 2022-05-16) -> CRAN

New functions:

• applyThreshold

Modified functions:

• Boyce

  • warning emitted and points coloured red for bins with less than 30 values

• standard01 (benefitting threshMeasures)

  • added is.finite(score) to avoid error when NAs produced by kappa integer overflow

• getThreshold, inputMunch

  • 'obs' can be null if only 'pred' is needed

• predPlot

  • added call to 'getThreshold' to include more threshold options
  • added 'cex' argument (default 0.5), plus 'interval' and 'quant' to pass to 'getThreshold'

• confusionLabel

  • output is SpatRaster if input is too (as also implemented in 'applyThreshold')

• optiThresh

  • fixed bug: Precision and Recall were missing from 'goodness.measures' and didn't get optimals

modEvA 3.4

(Committed 2022-05-06)

Modified functions:

• AUC, confusionLabel, Dsquared, getBins, HLfit, MillerCalib, optiPair, optiThresh, plotGLM, predDensity, predPlot, RsqGLM, threshMeasures

  • added arguments 'rm.dup' and 'na.rm' to pass to 'inputMunch' and cascade to 'ptsrast2obspred'

• Boyce

  • renamed arguments 'rm.dupl.classes' and 'rm.dupl.points' to 'rm.dup.classes' and 'rm.dup.points', for better coherence with 'rm.dup' in other functions
  • added 'na.rm' argument

modEvA 3.3

(Committed 2022-05-03)

New functions:

• inputMunch

  • converts from model or point & raster inputs to obs & pred vectors

• getThreshold

  • computes threshold based on any of a range of published criteria

Modified functions:

• prevalence

  • added 'unlist' to avoid obscure error when input is one-column tibble instead of vector

• confusionLabel, Dsquared, getBins, HLfit, MillerCalib, optiPair, optiThresh, plotGLM, predDensity, predPlot, RsqGLM, threshMeasures

  • 'obs' and 'pred' can also be presence coordinates and a SpatRaster, respectively

• confusionLabel, getBins

  • added 'na.rm' argument

• threshMeasures

  • 'thresh' argument now calls new 'getThreshold' function to include more options

• ptsrast2obspred

  • checks for duplicates and shows message if there are (if rm.dup = FALSE)
  • 'rm.dup' now defaults to FALSE, to assume less and to match 'ecospat.boyce'

• Boyce

  • 'rm.dupl.points' now defaults to FALSE, to assume less and to match 'ecospat.boyce'

• modEvAmethods

  • added error message when 'fun' not correctly specified (instead of silent empty result)
  • help file now provides all available values under 'fun' argument

• getModEqn

  • 'round' replaced with 'signif' to avoid small coeffs becoming zeros (bug report by Jose Carlos Guerrero)

• MESS

  • added 'verbosity' argument

modEvA 3.2

(Committed 2022-03-13)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • 'obs' and 'pred' can be presence coordinates and a SpatRaster, respectively

• Boyce

  • added argument '...', e.g. for plot 'main' or 'xlim'
  • argument name 'nclass' replaced with 'n.bins' to match other modEvA functions
  • argument name 'window.w' replaced with 'bin.width' to accomodate other modEvA functions
  • default 'nclass = 0' replaced with 'n.bins = NA', and all else accordingly
  • changed default 'rm.dupl.classes' to FALSE after some checks (e.g. Galpyr RF in SDMB course)

• ptsrast2obspred

  • added argument 'na.rm' and set to TRUE by default
  • help file now uses 'elev' raster for more clarity

modEvA 3.1

(Committed 2022-02-22)

New functions:

- Boyce

- ptsrast2obspred

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • moved 'pred' range check to after NAs are removed to avoid error

• predPlot

  • on exit, restores only 'par(mar)' (the only one changed) rather than all 'par'

• RsqGLM

  • added las = 2 to 'barplot'

modEvA 3.0 (2021-12-20)

(Committed 2021-12-20) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • warning if 'obs' contains only zeros or only ones (to explain result NaN and no curve on plot)
  • if the previous occurs, other warnings suppressed (PR curve interpolated past NaN precision, method changed to 'trapezoid', etc.)

• MillerCalib

  • plot text elevated by 0.05 y-axis units, to avoid it being cropped in small plots

Other changes:

• uniformized description of arguments "model", "obs" and "pred" across functions' help files

modEvA 2.8

(Committed 2021-12-03)

Modified functions:

• optiPair
  • message "'pred' must range between 0 and 1" changed from error to warning
  • added argument 'na.rm' (default TRUE) to avoid NaNs in result MinDiff, MaxSum, etc.
  • added argument 'exclude.zeros' (default TRUE) to avoid precision-recall "optimal" difference when both 0 or NaN

modEvA 2.7

(Committed 2021-11-26)

New functions:

• confusionLabel (to map the confusion matrix)

• mod2obspred (to extract 'obs' and 'pred' from model objects)

Modified functions:

• prevalence

  • message "'event' is not among of the values of 'obs'" changed from error to warning
  • 'mod2obspred' now used for extracting 'obs' if 'model' is provided

• AUC, getBins, HLfit, MillerCalib, optiPair, optiThresh, predDensity, predPlot, threshMeasures

  • 'model' can now be of class "glm", "gam", "gbm", "randomForest" or "bart"
  • 'mod2obspred' now used for extracting 'obs' and 'pred' if 'model' is provided

modEvA 2.6

(Committed 2021-11-01)

Modified functions:

• predDensity

  • added 'main' argument for plot title

• predPlot

  • added 'pch' and 'col' arguments for the plot
  • legend.pos is now "n" by default (legend was ugly and needed box to distinguish from actual plot points)

• RsqGLM

  • added "plot" argument (default TRUE)
  • added '...' for additional parameters for 'plot'

• plotGLM

  • added 'plot=FALSE' to 'RsqGLM' (used if 'plot.values')

• optiThresh

  • slightly changed plot margins so that bottom axis values are visible

Other modified files:

• www/modEvA-tutorial.html
  • updated with these recent options

modEvA 2.5

(Committed 2021-10-31)

Modified functions:

• AUC
  • plot.preds=TRUE now plots filled circles with transparency
  • plot.preds=TRUE now defaults to plotting circles on the curve (rather than both curve and bottom)
  • size of circles if plot.preds=TRUE changed from 100prop.preds to 20sqrt(prop.preds)
  • x coordinates of circles if plot.preds=TRUE changed from 'thresholds' to 'xx'
  • if plot.values=TRUE, value is now plotted on the middle bottom for ROC and middle top for PR curve
  • NaN precision values now coerced to the last non-NaN value (rather than 1), and warning emitted
  • interpolated (NaN precision) part of the PR curve now plotted besides the curve with actual precision values

modEvA 2.4

(Committed 2021-10-30)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • fixed wrong PR area when last precision value(s) NaN, by coercing NaN precisions to 1 (thanks to bug report by Ying-Ju Tessa Chen)
  • deactivated option method = "integrate", which was providing somewhat inaccurate values
  • added / improved warning messages when 'method' changed to match chosen 'curve'
  • added warning when method = "trapezoid" and interval >= 0.01, noting result is more accurate with smaller intervals

• threshMeasures

  • added 'ylim' argument with default c(0, 1) to avoid error when no selected measure has finite values

Other modified files:

• inst/CITATION
  • corrected publication year of 'New measures' paper under 'textVersion' of citation (thanks to bug report by Alba Estrada)

modEvA 2.3

(Committed 2021-09-30)

Modified functions:

• prevalence
  • added 'model' argument, which can now be provided instead of 'obs'
  • help file includes examples with 'model' and with character 'obs'
  • error message when 'obs' not a vector and when 'event' not in 'obs'
  • warning when 'obs' ignored in favour of 'model'

modEvA 2.2

(Committed 2021-09-08)

Modified functions:

• MillerCalib

  • slope value now plotted before (above) intercept (if plot.values = TRUE)

• varPart

  • fixed right margin in 2-factor plot and added option for colouring the circles, following suggestions by Oswald van Ginkel

• MESS

  • bug fix e-mailed by Huijie Qiao

modEvA 2.1

(Committed 2021-01-15)

New functions:

• predPlot

Modified functions:

• predDensity

  • like 'predPlot', 'legend.pos' now allows NA (for no legend) instead of throwing obscure error

• optiThresh

  • added warning when any of 'measures' or 'optimize' not within implemented values

Other modified files:

• MESS.Rd
  • removed mention that we will implement ExDet for dataframes; added 'ecospat.climan' to 'See also'

Other changes:

• minor corrections to some 'man' files

modEvA 2.0 (2020-01-21)

(Committed 2020-01-21) -> CRAN

Modified functions:

• modEvA-internal

  • removed .Random.seed

• multModEv, modEvAmethods, modEvA-internal

  • added "MeanPrecision", "AUCPR" and "F1score"

Other modified files:

• multModEv.Rd
  • added "AUCPR" to one of the examples

(Committed 2020-01-20)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • added 'meanPrecision' to returned list (if simplif = FALSE)
  • "AUC[PR]" mentioned on plot when curve = "PR"

• optiThresh

  • added "F1score" to goodness.measures in optimals.each
  • added Liu et al. 2005 reference to threshold criteria

• threshMeasures, modEvAmethods

  • added "Precision" and "Recall" (even though synonyms with "PPP" and "Sensitivity")

• optiPair

  • changed pch of measure 1 to 19 (slightly larger than pch 20) so it's still visible when overlapped by measure 2

• multModEv

  • added 'plot = FALSE' to internal AUC call

Other modified files:

• threshMeasures.Rd, optiThresh.Rd, optiPair.Rd
  • added "Note" saying sens=recall and PPP=precision, and defining F1score

modEvA 1.8

(Committed 2020-01-17)

Modified functions:

• AUC
  • removed artificial zeros (instead of NaN) when curve = "PR"
  • reversed the reference diagonal if curve = "PR"
  • value now placed higher on the plot if curve = "PR" to avoid superposition

Other changes:

• added 'inst' folder with article citation information

modEvA 1.7

(Committed 2020-01-16)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • implemented methods "trapezoid" and "integrate"
  • added area calculation for "PR" curve

• threshMeasures, evaluate, modEvAmethods, (optiThresh, optiPair)

  • added "F1score" to available 'measures'

modEvA 1.5

(Committed 2020-01-15)

New functions:

• predDensity

Modified functions:

• AUC
  • new 'method' argument, which in the future can be "rank", "trapezoid" or "integrate" (currently only "rank" is implemented)
  • new 'curve' argument which can be "ROC" or "PR" (precision-recall)
  • arguments 'roc.col', 'roc.lty' and 'roc.lwd' renamed to 'curve.col', 'curve.lty' and 'curve.lwd'
  • 'xlab' and 'ylab' now default to "auto", to be generated according to 'curve'
  • removed 'main' argument (can be provided via '...')
  • 'plot.preds' can now be either a logical value as before, or a character "curve" and/or "bottom"
  • 'plot.preds' circles now plotted in darkgrey
  • title in .Rd file changed to "Area Under the Curve" (removed "ROC")

Other changes:

• corrected some problems in .Rd files, to reduce LaTeX errors when creating PDF version of manual.

modEvA 1.4.2

(Committed 2020-01-03)

Modified functions:

• plotGLM
  • corrected to adj=1 when plotting values on the right of the plot

modEvA 1.4.1

(Committed 2019-10-18)

Modified functions:

• RsqGLM
  • added NA handling for 'cor'

modEvA 1.4

(Committed 2018-11-28)

Modified functions:

• AUC

  • added arguments diag, diag.col, diag.lty, roc.col, roc.lty, roc.lwd
  • 'simplif = TRUE' no longer overrides 'plot = TRUE'

• MillerCalib

  • added arguments diag, line.col

Other modified files:

• edited .Rd files (AUC, HLfit, evaluate, optiPair, threshMeasures, modEvA-package) to reflect difference between discrimination and classification
  • updated index.php

modEvA 1.3.3

(Committed 2017-03-24)

Modified functions:

• varPart:
  • bug fixed (with na.omit) when only two factors (A, B, AB)

modEvA 1.3.2 (2016-07-15)

(Committed 2016-07-12)

Modified functions:

• getBins (affecting HLfit):

  • bug fixed in "bin.method = size.bins", which was giving two different messages regarding ignored arguments

• HLfit:

  • help file slightly clarified

modEvA 1.3.1

(Committed 2016-06-27)

Modified functions:

• getBins (affecting HLfit):

  • bug fixed in "bin.method = quantiles", now providing even-sized bins (=SPSS)
  • added argument 'quantile.type', to pass to 'quantile' function

• HLfit:

  • added argument 'quantile.type', to pass to 'quantile' function
  • added argument 'verbosity'

• multModEv:

  • removed default 'thresh' (must be user-specified)
  • replaced argument 'quiet' with 'verbosity' for coherence with other functions

• threshMeasures:

  • removed default 'thresh' (must be user-specified)
  • replaced argument 'messages' with 'verbosity' for coherence with other functions

modEvA 1.3

(Committed 2016-06-16)

Modified functions:

• getBins (affecting HLfit):

  • bug fixed in "bin.method = quantiles", removing last additional bin of size 1
  • help file improved to better explain what each bin.method does and what arguments it ignores
  • added argument 'verbosity'

• HLfit:

  • added examples to help file to illustrate differences in bin.methods

modEvA 1.2.9

(Committed 2016-06-06)

Modified functions:

• getBins (affecting HLfit):

  • bug fixed in "bin.method = n.bins, fixed.bin.size = TRUE"
  • help file updated to explain what each bin.method does
  • removed default bin.method (must be specified by user)

• multModEv:

  • included '...' for additional arguments to pass to HLfit
  • removed default bin.method (must be specified if HL in measures)

• modEvAmethods:

  • excluded "Miller.p" (previously eliminated from MillerCalib)

modEvA 1.2.8

(Committed 2016-04-18)

Modified functions:

• varPart:

  • 'plot.unexpl' now also rounded to 'plot.digits'
  • 'model.type' deprecated (message emitted)
  • AB or ABC now also mandatory, and unexplained var 0, for GLMs
  • help file updated

• plotGLM:

  • warning on preds outside [0,1] now only emitted when appropriate

• AUC, getBins, HLfit, MillerCalib, multModEv, optiPair, optiThresh, plotGLM, threshMeasures:

  • error when model(s) provided but not binomial logit glm

modEvA 1.2.7

(Committed 2016-04-15)

Modified functions:

• varPart:
  • added argument 'plot.unexpl = TRUE'
  • explicit error message for 3-factor LM with no ABC
  • help file now with both LM and GLM examples
  • help file now notes that wrong input = wrong result

modEvA 1.2.6

(Committed 2016-04-13)

Modified functions:

• AUC:

  • error replaced with warning when pred values outside the [0,1] interval
  • added argument plot.digits = 3 (for plot.values)

• varPart:

  • added arguments 'main' and 'cex.main'
  • slightly increased default cex values
  • updated help file to make GLM use a bit clearer

• plotGLM:

  • error replaced with warning when pred values outside the [0,1] interval
  • added pseudo-R-squared measures to plot.values
  • changed plot.values default to TRUE
  • added argument plot.digits = 3 (for plot.values)

modEvA 1.2.5

(Committed 2016-03-30)

Modified functions:

• getBins:

  • eliminated error when pred values outside the [0,1] interval

• HLfit:

  • error replaced with warning on pred values outside the [0,1] interval
  • plot now stretches if pred values exceed [0,1] interval

• MillerCalib:

  • error replaced with warning on pred values outside the [0,1] interval
  • default digits (for plot.values) lowered to 2
  • slope p-value removed (values looked wrong)
  • NaNs avoided by converting 0 and 1 in 'pred' to (1 -) 2e-16
  • increased plot ymax by 0.2
  • changed plot text location to bottom right

modEvA 1.2.4

(Committed 2016-03-22)

Modified functions:

• multModEv:
  • warning now emitted, and help file updated, about calibration measures being valid only for probability (when input is obs.data + pred.data)

modEvA 1.2.3

(Committed 2015-12-10)

Modified functions:

• prevalence:
  • 'na.rm = TRUE' added

modEvA 1.2.2

(Committed 2015-11-27)

Modified functions:

• Dsquared, RsqGLM, plotGLM:
  • NaN-caused errors avoided by converting 0 and 1 in 'pred' to (1 -) 2e-16

modEvA 1.2.1

(Committed 2015-11-26)

Modified functions:

• Dsquared, RsqGLM:
  • NaN-caused errors avoided by converting 0 in 'pred' to smallest computable positive number

modEvA 1.2

Modified functions:

• AUC, Dsquared, RsqGLM, threshMeasures, optiPair, HLfit & MillerCalib now omit NAs

• Dsquared based on obs&pred now available also for Poisson GLMs