Version 0.6-10 of NIMBLE released

release

announcement

Author

NIMBLE Development Team

Published

March 29, 2018

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. Version 0.6-10 primarily contains updates to the NIMBLE internals that may speed up building and compilation of models and algorithms, as well as a few bug fixes.

Changes include:

some steps of model and algorithm building and compilation are faster;
compiled execution with multivariate distributions or function arguments may be faster;
data can now be provided as a numeric data frame rather than a matrix;
to run WAIC, a user now must set enableWAIC to TRUE, either in NIMBLE’s options or as an argument to buildMCMC();
if enableWAIC is TRUE, buildMCMC() will now check to make sure that the nodes monitored by the MCMC algorithm will lead to a valid WAIC calculation; and
the use of identityMatrix() is deprecated in favor of diag().

Please see the NEWS file in the installed package for more details