NEWS

## v0.3.3

2026-02-11

## v0.3.2

2025-10-07

Bug Fixes

disable auto-detection in standardize_column_names tests
reduce false positives in column recognition and fix options flow

Features

add exogeneity tests as a new runtime method
add a smart recognition system for input column names
add intelligent data reading and column recognition

## v0.3.1

2025-10-06

Bug Fixes

rewrite the menu select usage to reference the climenu package correctly
udpate the fix_options.R script
resolve linter warnings and style issues

## v0.3.0

2025-10-06

Bug Fixes

add Makefile and related files to .Rbuildignore
improve keyboard input handling in climenu

Code Refactoring

replace utils::select.list with climenu::menu

Features

replace run.sh with Makefile for build tasks
add climenu sub-package for interactive CLI menus

## v0.2.2

2025-10-01

Bug Fixes

satisfy R CMD check warnings
the p-value significance mark formatting is now more robust
tidy linear tests output table formatting
align linear tests runtime behaviour
update a number of custom methods and their tests
isolate cache keys per runtime stage
update broken code in the effect and summary stats parts
update modules handling, add a function for finding the package path
the run module now handles input better
update options file behavior in edge cases
enforce guard clause indentation width
satisfy lint restrictions in cache helpers
silence ttl refresh replay noise
harden cache invalidation handling
drop stale memoise entries per invocation
use cli default handler fallback
remove non-ascii characters

Code Refactoring

unify significance marks option
fix the linear tests output
update the rest of the methods modules
finish the custom linear/nonlinear methods migration
fix lint issues and test suite issues for the custom methods
port legacy methods with regression tests
use cache runner for effect stats
update path handling
move module functions to a standalone folder
move the runtime method fetch function to a standalone modules folder
modularize options handling
add linters to tests, refactor fixtures
wrap all verbosity fetching into a single function
single out the function for printing options help text

Features

add non-linear publication bias diagnostics
allow configuring runtime method order
add linear regression diagnostics method
add reusable cache_cli runner wrappers
utilize the new caching system to cache data preprocessing
harden cache cli system
add a cli capture handler for print output
add new methods, fix caching, add optional cache disabling
add an explicit wrapper function for fetching cached artifacts
implement the custom caching functions and add test suites
add cache packages and test suites
add caching to the variable summary stats function
add a caching system
add an option to select how many decimal places to round the output to
control for verbosity in all of the existing cli logs
add the option to choose verbosity
implement the variable summary stats method

## v0.2.1

2025-04-25

Bug Fixes

add missing explicit package imports back to the DESCRIPTION file
fix more data preprocessing import errors
fix an import error
add a couple of objects to the globals list

Code Refactoring

standardize the column names of required and expected variable names
rewrite data processing into a pipeline

Features

add valiadtion and value enforcement methods for data preprocessing
rename reg_df -> reg_dof
improve option parsing validation and type coercion
add a utility function for calculating study sizes
add a calc placeholder module and calculation for t-values
add methods for computing study/obs ID optional columns
in data processing, enforce the correct column types and names better
deprecate the column standardization
add further column validation to data preprocessing
add preprocessing methods for column name standardization
add the purrr package, add utility functions for parsing data
add a function for fetching definitions from option templates
add the ‘study’ column to the data recognized column names

## v0.2.0

2025-04-24

Bug Fixes

fix the data config top level module import error
parsing option templates is now done through leaf paths
remove an unimported function
add a missing CONST import to the options utils module
add a missing argument to the main function
parsing the user options now properly displays help, modify the template to accommodate that
options now accept enum types

Code Refactoring

change the parsing of the options template to allow nested nodes
change the way the data config parsing function is structured
the ‘assert’ function now accepts a ‘msg’ argument

Features

partially enable data preprocessing, clean up cli messages
add functions for modifying, fixing, and fetching data configurations
add temporary options for better path awareness
implement a function to get a data config from the options file
prompts can now be defined through custom options
remove the unused data config methods - update through opt files now

BREAKING CHANGE

the new templates are now incompatible with old ones

## v0.1.30

2025-04-16

Bug Fixes

add a missing import to the data config parsing function
add a missing export from the string module
rewrite the data config validation test to use the renamed function

Code Refactoring

rename the determine df type function (data_type -> df_type)
rename the data config file update function to better reflect its purpose
move the data config write function to a standalone module
decouple logic in data config writing/parsing
regex validation now happens against a more robust const object, add tests
rename the data config filename validation function
replace the internal ‘is_empty’ function with the in-built rlang function
remove the test constant and move the data into CONST.R

Features

add the body of data config parsing, add verbose string creation function
add various utility functions for parsing and writing the data config files
by default, the options copy now asks for overwrite permission in interactive mode
add functions for parsing data frames into data configs
add a function that validates an existence of a data config file
add a function for validating data config filenames
add a placeholder folder for data config files handling
remove the logger package, use ‘cli’ for all console logging

## v0.1.29

2025-04-15

Bug Fixes

the cran submission workflow now parses the correct artifact name

## v0.1.28

2025-04-15

## v0.1.27

2025-04-15

## v0.1.26

2025-04-15

## v0.1.25

2025-04-15

Bug Fixes

add a missing newline to the release artifacts text file
the github workflow artifacts read now uses a more robust code
the build artifacts read workflow step now reads from a correct file
the gh release artifacts are now read from a single source of truth file
attempt to fix the build artifact upload path

## v0.1.24

2025-04-14

Bug Fixes

the cran comments build workflow should now target the file correctly

## v0.1.23

2025-04-14

Bug Fixes

change the release notes creation script to be more lenient
the update news action now updates with all the existing GH tags
replace the invalid slash in the git origin path in the news update workflow
remove the unused ‘replace’ argument in mock df creation
ArtmaBot now authenticates through the deploy key when updating the news file
the random vector generation now generates floats (was int) from a uniform distribution
use the official homebrew action to install homebrew
provide explicit pacakge method assignment when reading data
remove the homebrew install from the news update workflow
minor changes in the open PR script
comment out a PR open automation script irrelevant line
remove the mishandled ‘v’ tag
workflows to use a composite news creation action
more workflow issues
secret passing to the build workflow
the news update secrets passing
the cran submission workflow cli package call

Features

reading the data now validates the data frame as well

## v0.1.22

2025-04-14

Code Refactoring

modify the build workflow to release from the CRAN version as opposed to the current one
the runtime module methods invocation function is now better formatted

## v0.1.21