
Changes and New Features in 2.9.7 (2024-04-06):
	* theta/omega DART settings now properly propagated in gbart 

Changes and New Features in 2.9.6 (2024-01-09):
	* resolving CRAN checks for printf and Rd 

Changes and New Features in 2.9.4 (2023-03-25):
	* C++11 is now the CRAN standard and C++17 is not needed

	* casting signed int to unsigned for comparisons with unsigned

Changes and New Features in 2.9.3 (2023-02-04):
	* resolving CRAN checks for mc_cores_openmp and recur.pwbart

	* src/Makevars is "hard-wired" for OpenMP on Windows
	
	* surv.pre.bart: times beyond the events grid are
	necessarily censored

Changes and New Features in 2.9.1, 2.9.2:  version numbers skipped
	
Changes and New Features in 2.9 (2020-12-21):
	* update CITATION and DOI along with help file references
	for publication of our article in JSS

	* from here on: bug-fixes only
	package frozen in order to be in synch with article

	* for new developments, see BART3 on our github site at
	https://github.com/rsparapa/bnptools

	* N.B. the warnings "unused variable 'grp'" are purposely kept,
	i.e., if you want the Dirichlet sparse prior to recognize 
	factors as grouped variables, then you need to use BART3 

Changes and New Features in 2.8 (2020-11-27):
	* fix bugs in mc.pwbart

	* gbart: return ndpost as an item like mc.gbart

Changes and New Features in 2.7 (2019-12-04):
	* addressing new behavior of class function

Changes and New Features in 2.6 (2019-07-24):
	* updated vignette with typo corrections and additional info
	
Changes and New Features in 2.5 (2019-06-10):
	* new feature: stratrs function now handles
	continuous data as well categorical

	* bug fix: bartModelMatrix now correctly handles
	all-missing columns with numcut>0 and rm.const=T

	* bug fix: fix gbart syntax error in LPML feature
	
	* bug fix: fix a mc.pbart error which failed
	to recalculate prob.train.mean and prob.test.mean
	based on all chains

Changes and New Features in 2.4 (2019-04-10):
	* change:  per CRAN policy, dynamic libraries are no 
	longer "stripped" on Linux

Changes and New Features in 2.3 (2019-03-27):
	* new feature: adding arguments to surv.pre.bart, surv.bart
	and mc.surv.bart to fine-tune grid of time points and 
	automate creation of time dependent covariates.  These are
	convenience features to make multi-state models easier to
	handle; see new demo leuk

	* change: arguments to rtnorm and rtgamma more user friendly

	* new feature: re-organized vignettes into a single vignette

	* new feature: gbart now calculates log pseudo-marginal
	likelihood (LPML) for computing pseudo-Bayes factors

	* new feature: new Generalized BART Mixed Models, see the
	function gbmm

Changes and New Features in 2.2 (2019-01-22):

	* bug fix: fix typo in size of theta grid for sparse prior

	* new feature: Multinomial BART, mbart2, (suitable for
	cases with more categories) based on the original mbart
	implementation but inspired by the logit transformation;
	nevertheless, both logit and probit are available and, 
	of course, probit is much faster

Changes and New Features in 2.1 (2018-11-28):

	* to meet current CRAN guidelines, replaced CXX1X and CXX1XSTD 
	configure/autoconf macros with CXX11 and CXX11STD respectively

Changes and New Features in 2.0 (2018-11-12):

	* new feature: Multinomial BART, mbart, (suitable for cases
	with relatively fewer categories) replaced with a new
	conditional probability implementation which allows the user
	to choose probit or logit BART; of course, probit BART is 
	much faster

	* new feature: if lambda is specified as 0, then sigma is
	considered to be fixed and known at the value sigest 
        and, therefore, not sampled

	* bug fix: fixed single column x.test bug

Changes and New Features in 1.9 (2018-08-17):

	* bug fix: off by one error fixed in robust Gamma 
	generator for sparse Dirichlet prior

        * new feature: abart/mc.abart computes a variant
	of the Accelerated Failue Time model based on BART

	* new feature: for x.train/x.test with missing data elements, 
	gbart will singly impute them with hot decking.  
	Since mc.gbart runs multiple gbart threads in parallel, 
	mc.gbart performs multiple imputation with hot decking, 
	i.e., a separate imputation for each thread.

Changes and New Features in 1.8 (2018-06-30):

	* bug fix: fix typo in the recur.pwbart() which
	prevented predict() from working when OpenMP
	was not available

Changes and New Features in 1.7 (2018-06-08):

	* enhancement: generalized, or generic, BART: gbart/mc.gbart
	unites continuous and binary BART in one function call
	re-based time-to-event BARTs on gbart as well

	* enhancement: binaryOffset=NULL specifies 
	binaryOffset=qXXXX(mean(y.train)) for pbart/mc.pbart,
	lbart/mc.lbart, mbart/mc.mbart; offset=NULL does the
	same for gbart/mc.gbart, surv.bart/mc.surv.bart, 
	recur.bart/mc.recur.bart, crisk.bart/mc.crisk.bart
	and crisk2.bart/mc.crisk2.bart (note: competing 
	cause 2 is handled analogously for offset2=NULL)

	* enhancement: multinomial BART rebased on probit BART for 
	computational efficiency

	* bug fix: several corrections in probit and logit BART.
	Note that this may change your results for binary and
	time-to-event outcomes.  For probit BART, the correction
	generally leads to a small change in the results.  However,
	the logit BART correction may lead to more substantial
	changes.

	* doc fix: correct docs for the binary case in pbart/mc.pbart, 
	lbart and mbart; and correct docs for the numeric case in
	wbart/mc.wbart

	* enhancement: robust Gamma generation for small scale parameter

	* enhancement: more robust sparse Dirichlet prior implementation

Changes and New Features in 1.6 (2018-03-19):

	* for binary outcomes, new default for ntree=50
	  (change inadvertently omitted from v1.4 below)

        * enhancement: recur.pre.bart, recur.bart and mc.recur.bart
	  can now handle NA entries in the times and delta matrices

	* enhancement: for time-to-event outcomes, new optional 
	  K parameter which coarsens time per the quantiles
          1/K, 2/K, ..., K/K.

	* bug fix: x.test/x.test2 now properly transposed if needed
	  for post-processing

	* bug fix: sparse Dirichlet prior now corrected for 
	  random theta update.  Thanks to Antonio Linero for
	  the detailed bug report.

Changes and New Features in 1.5 (2018-02-08):

        * bug fix: ambiguous call of floor surrounding integer division

	* bug fix: x.test is not an argument of recur.pre.bart

Changes and New Features in 1.4 (2018-02-02):

	* for binary outcomes, new default for ntree=50

        * fixed library bloat on Linux with strip

	* x.train and x.test can be supplied as data.frames
	  which contain factors as stated in the documentation

	* cutpoints now based on data itself, i.e., binary or
	  ordinal covariates.  Similarly, you can request 
	  quantiles via the usequants setting. 

	* sparse variable selection now available with the
	  sparse=TRUE argument; see the documentation

	* new vignettes

	* new function, mc.lbart, for logit BART in parallel

	* mbart updated to equivalent functionality as other functions

	* new function, mc.mbart, for Multinomial BART in parallel

Changes and New Features in 1.3 (2017-09-18):

        * new examples in demo directory

	* return ndpost values rather ndpost/keepevery

	* for calling BART directly from C++, you can
	  now use the RNG provided by Rmath or the STL random class
	  see the improved example in cxx-ex

	* new predict S3 methods, see predict.wbart and other
	  predict variants

	* Added Geweke diagnostics for pbart, surv.bart, etc.
	  See gewekediag which is adapted from the coda package

	* logit BART added for binary outcomes; see lbart

	* Multinomial BART added for categorical outcomes; see mbart

Changes and New Features in 1.2 (2017-04-30):

	* you can now call BART directly from C++ with the Rmath library 
	  see new header rn.h and the example in cxx-ex

Changes and New Features in 1.1 (2017-04-13):

	* No user visible changes: bug-fix release

Changes and New Features in 1.0 (2017-04-07):

	* First release on CRAN
