Changes in version 1.1-2 (2025-05-09) o Don't check support if all observations are missing. Changes in version 1.1-1 (2021-06-17) o Allow to turn off add when calling mkgrid for a numeric variable. Changes in version 1.1-0 (2021-03-08) o Add a flag to ordered_var requesting a sparse model matrix. Changes in version 1.0-3 (2020-02-14) o Update citation info. Changes in version 1.0-2 (2019-06-20) o Allow for censoring in factors. Changes in version 1.0-1 (2018-09-17) o Documentation update. Changes in version 1.0-0 (2018-03-08) o A paper describing version 1.0-0 of the mlt, basefun, and variables packages was accepted for publication in the Journal of Statistical Software 2018-03-05. o Documentation updates. Changes in version 0.0-31 (2018-02-23) o Fix date and add ORCID number. Changes in version 0.0-30 (2016-02-19) o The variables package was first published on CRAN.