A warning is now generated when a user passes a data column with binary data as a numeric vector.
Informative errors are now returned when the order argument does not contain
each variable exactly once.
Fixed a rare bug in find_consensus_order, due to a particular edge case of
order combinations. In old R versions this would generate a warning about the
an if condition with length > 1, which in newer versions results in an error.
(Thanks to Laura Alencar for the report.)
Replaced parallel processing based on the parallel package and pbapply to
use future instead. Use e.g. future::plan("multisession", workers = n) to
enable parallel processing for both model comparison (parallel over dsep
statements) and model estimation (when using bootstrapping).
Fixed a bug that no longer allowed parallel processing in phylo_path.
Fixed a bug where the range of the width scale for paths in plot.fitted_DAG
was incorrectly set to the max(weight), instead of max(abs(weight)).
(Thanks Yu Xu for the report.)
Better user messaging and documentation around the use of the boot parameter.
Update of binary vignette to include more info on convergence warnings.
Fixed a bug that made phylo_path fail to pass additional (...)
arguments correctly to phylolm.
Add informative error when trying to plot a DAG without any paths.
Updated plotting functions to work with new ggraph releases.
Fixed regression with parallel usage of phylo_path due to an S3
inheritance issue on the cluster (#16, thanks Simon Greenhill for the report).
Prepare for R v4.0.0.
Bug fix: Very low p-values could cause underflow and result in infinite C statistics. All p-values are now set to be at least the size of the machine accuracy (i.e. 2 * 10^-16).
Warnings are now again correctly reported.
ggraph.Bug fix: It was possible to get CICc values in the summary output that were
not valid. Specifically, to calculate CICc there is a division by
(n - 1 - q), where n is the number of observations (species) and q the
number of parameters in the causal model. This could lead to infinite CICc
when n == q + 1, or a flipped of CICc when n < q + 1. This would typically
only occur when attempting to fit models with very few species (e.g. < 10).
New behavior is to set CICc to NA when n is insufficient, and to give a
warning.
Removed dependencies dplyr and tidyr, but added tibble.
Fixed bug that would return the wrong model in some error messages.
Improved reporting of warnings, and a show_warnings() function has been
added.
Citation info now points to the PeerJ paper.
Citation info now points to the bioRxiv paper.
All modeling functions now completely rely on the phylolm package, and no
longer use ape. This is a major change, that will possibly change the
outcomes of some of your existing analyses (as can happen when chaning
the modeling package). There are, however, several good reasons to make this
change, which I think make it worth the trouble. Firstly, the package is much
faster for large trees, and this effect is compounded in phylopath because
one may have to fit a few dozen models. Secondly, I think it is important to
have confidence intervals around the regression coefficients, and those were
not available for ape::binaryPGLMM. Thirdly, phylolm makes it easy to use
a larger variety of models of evolution, including two versions of OU and
early burst, which can be simply set using the model parameter. Lastly, the
phylolm() and phyloglm() functions give more uniform results, which makes
it easier to code for situation where you may use both.
phylo_path and all related methods now deal automatically with both
continuous and binary data. All separate binary functions and methods have
disappeared as they are no longer needed. Mixing of binary and continious
data in the same models is now allowed.
The variable order in d-seperation statements now better follows the causal flow of the DAG.
Added plot() method for phylopath.summary objects, that shows the weights
and p-values for the different models.
coef_plot() gained error_bar, order_by, from and to arguments. The
first allows the user to choose between confidence invervals and standard
errors, the second to order the paths by several methods, and the last two
can be used to select only certain paths.
Plotting methods of causal models now support a manual layout.
Plotting of fitted DAG's now uses edge width instead of color to indicate,
the standardized regression coefficient strength, but this can be reverted
using the type argument.
Added a define_model_set() convenience function for building models, that
avoids repeated calls to DAG() and has an argument to supply paths that are
shared between all your models. It is not needed to specify isolate variables.
Old code using DAG() continues to work as normal.
Added support for additional arguments passed to gls from phylo_path. This
can be helpful, for example, for setting the fitting method to maximum
likelihood (method = "ML").
####Bugfixes:
The package broke due to an update of purrr, but has now been fixed
(reported by Christoph Liedtke, @hcliedtke).
The package depends on a recent version of nlme, but this wasn't specified.
All package versions of dependencies are now defined (reported by
@ManuelaGonzalez).
Added support for completely binary models, that are fitted with
ape::binaryPGLMM. Use phylo_path_binary() to compare models. average(),
best() and choice() are now S3 generics and will handle both continuous
and binary versions. Usage is designed to be as close to the continuous version
as possible. est_DAG_binary() powers the binary S3 methods.
All plot functions that used DiagrammeR now use ggraph instead. This gives
much more control over the positioning of the nodes, and allows to plot
multiple models at once. Exporting plots also becomes much easier.
You can now plot a list of causal models with plot_model_set(). This
creates a faceted plot where all nodes are kept in the same location, which
makes it easier to spot how models are different.
If there are any NA values in data for the variables in models, these
rows are now dropped from data with a message. Use na.rm = FALSE to revert
to the old behavior.
When PGLS models fail, an informative error is now returned to the user.
phylo_path() now checks for row.names that line up with the tree tip labels.
If the tree contains surplus species, it gets pruned to size with a message.
This includes cases where species are dropped due to missing values.
citation() now correctly refers to the methods paper by Von Hardenberg &
Gonzalez-Voyer first and the package second.
Fewer models are now fitted when using phylo_path(), since any duplicated
independence statements are now only fitted once. This leads to a significant
reduction in running time in many cases, especially when many models are
considered.
Implemented support for parallel processing in phylo_path() using the
parallel argument.
phylo_path() now shows a progress bar.
New function added (choice()) that is a very simple wrapper around
est_DAG(). It adds to best() and average() by allowing for choosing
any model as the final model, and encourages users to not always pick the
lowest CICc model.
Prepared plotting functions for new release of DiagrammeR, v0.9 now
required.
IMPORTANT: Faulty model averaging has been fixed. This was often introduced due to differences in matrix ordering. Averaging results from versions before 0.2.1 should NOT be trusted.
Using ape::corBrownian() no longer returns an error.
Averaging is less likely to fail due to errors in nlme::intervals().
phylo_path() has become more streamlined with functionality moved to other
functions. The phylopath object now contains all necessary models and data,
summary() is used to obtain the results table, and best() and average()
are used to extract and fit the best or average model. See the vignette for
details.
Model averaging for arbitrary models is now possible with average_DAGs().
Model averaging now supports both conditional and full model averaging.
Both the old est_DAG() and the new average_DAGs() now return objects of a
new class fitted_DAG, that has it's separate plot method. The plot
method for objects of class DAG has been simplified.
Model averaging now returns standard errors and confidence intervals based on
the MuMIn package (issue #1).
A new function plot_coefs for plotting regression coefficients and their
confidence intervals has been added.