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2026-08-19
Bug Fixes
- chglog: parse scoped conventional commits and show
the scope
- ci: pin full history for git-chglog and fail on an
empty NEWS section
- cran: restore the pkgdown site URL now that the
site is live
- cran: drop the unpublished pkgdown site URL from
DESCRIPTION
- preview: never open the data viewer while R CMD
check runs
- release: abort when NEWS.md has no notes for the
version being released
Features
- replication: add harness for replicating IES theses
with artma
2026-08-19
Bug Fixes
- keep lintr in Suggests, it is used by the linter unit tests
- drop LazyData and dead Suggests, honour absolute graphics export
path
- bma: drop non-numeric moderators instead of failing
inside scale()
- bpe: gate the “run BMA first?” prompt on the
autonomy level
- data: derive study_label from a legible study name
column when study keys are numeric
- data: write mock data to a durable user dir instead
of tempfile
- exogeneity: default the IV instrument to
1/sqrt(n_obs) (#450)
- linear: make between-effects standard errors robust
and label every model’s vcov
- methods: keep sequential method output on the
console so prompts show
- output: add a closing run summary and stop reading
integers as percentages
- output: resolve absolute graphics path in writers
and escape literal braces in help
- output: normalise manifest paths to forward slashes
for Windows
- output: drop zero counts from the run summary and
winsorization notes
- report: split method skip contract into skip_reason
and skipped_models
Features
- api: rename cli.* to cli_* and keep cli.run as a
permanent alias
- api: rename autonomy, viz, methods, report, results
exports to snake_case
- api: rename config.* and data.preview with
deprecated aliases
- api: rename options.* exports to options_* with
deprecated aliases
- api: add lifecycle dependency and snake_case API
naming guide
- core: add leveled verbosity log wrappers, fix
drifted defaults
- methods: show the registered method metadata in
methods.list()
- options: make options discoverable via help tree,
list details and diff
- output: write a per-run run.json and drive the
report and CLI from it
- output: roll the estimates slot out across the
remaining runtime methods
- output: add an unrounded tidy estimates slot to the
method contract
2026-08-09
Bug Fixes
- replace the homemade digest hash and stop the data cache
invalidating itself
- align LCM defaults and wire chunk_size option in
p_hacking_tests
- let column config data_type override type detection (#253)
- stop false study_id warning on valid string labels (#250)
- declare rjags in Suggests for the RoBMA test guard
- target the RoBMA 4.x API in the robma method
- make data config keys deterministic and invalidate the config df
cache
- update the climenu version to 0.1.5 to avoid an error
- handle NULL var_name in config during column validation
- silence the bma and fma run if the verbose_output is FALSE
- prime data-config cache when data is passed directly to artma()
- quiet dependency and validation noise in real runs and logs
- requirements on bma-dependent methods
- strict bpe requirements
- schema reconcile
- keep MAIVE pin CRAN-resolvable and gate tests on the runtime
floor
- require MAIVE 0.2.5 for unrounded estimates
- install MAIVE from CRAN instead of GitHub
- schema reconciliation messages
- make BPE recommendation fallback an explicit no-recommendation
outcome
- declare runtime dependencies correctly
- locate linters.R without the here package
- recompute user-supplied precision after winsorization
- locate the package root when the checkout is not named artma
- implement puniform_method P (method of moments) branch
- correct FE intercept SE vcov and study-weighted OLS weights in
linear tests
- use inverse-variance WAAP pilot weights and clustered WLS standard
errors
- isolate runtime method failures and always export partial
results
- quoted data paths, duplicate column mapping, exogeneity table
gaps
- prevent bma/best_practice_estimate crash on small BMA models
- failing tests
- options correctness fixes and dead code removal
- draw mock standard errors from a strictly positive range
- honor the cache TTL option and add a template-to-code option parity
test
- replace literal unicode escape text with ascii equivalents
- force sequential execution when already inside a forked worker
- restore RoxygenNote 7.3.3 and man page dropped by roxygen 8
regeneration
- drop unused fs Suggests dependency and its dir_create lint rule
- bma: align VIF masks, split multi-model params,
keep unmatched regressor names
- bma: exclude derived effect/se encodings from
auto-selected moderators
- bma: skip gracefully instead of crashing with a
single moderator
- bpe: apply overrides and report estimates on the
raw effect scale
- bpe: auto-detect dummy predictors for factor
summary table
- cache: record base-graphics plots so cached reruns
restore them
- ci: quote E2E test-file array so both fixture tests
actually run
- data: abort on colliding column-rename targets in
standardize_column_names
- data: treat NA options as unset and drop
non-numeric required NAs under remove
- data: silence duplicate drop_conflicting_raw log in
configure phase
- data: stop strategy no longer aborts on
optional-column NAs
- data: only hard-require columns the requested
methods need
- data: guard imputation of mostly-missing columns
and drop constant BMA moderators
- data: import get_verbosity in
standardize_column_names, update stale test calls
- data: stop treating lowercase na/n-a strings as
missing values
- data: default zero-SE handling to
remove-with-warning instead of abort
- detection: detect dummy/categorical type even with
group_category set
- e2e: shell-quote CLI args so the Rscript subprocess
starts under sh
- effect-summary-stats: correct weighted-mean SE,
per-study weights, unrounded CI
- effect_summary_stats: default effect column when
nothing configured
- elliott: use integer knot indices in pure R CDF
simulation fallback
- endo-kink: use model df, not residual df, in
heterogeneity variance divisor (#371)
- exogeneity: use se^2 as p-uniform* study variance
and fix selection threshold
- exogeneity: fill formatted columns when p-uniform*
skips estimation
- exogeneity: stop p-uniform* LRT collapsing to L=0,
fall back to P on ML failure
- exogeneity: rank IV instruments by first-stage F,
drop backwards votes
- exogeneity: cluster IV diagnostics and AR test,
signed p-uniform search, true bias test
- fma: correct Mallows criterion, Buckland SE
centering, and data scaling
- formatting: stop wide summary tables splitting into
two blocks
- formatting: apply wide-table print fix to remaining
call sites
- linear: raise bootstrap replications and flag
CI/star disagreement
- maive: guardrail AR interval when constant N
disables instrument
- maive: align se option with MAIVE 0.2.4, report
effective spec and AR guardrails
- maive: resolve add_significance_marks via shared
helper restoring scalar check
- maive: flag weak first-stage instrument and
document maive_first_stage
- modules: newline-terminate captured cli messages,
NA-safe parallel option read
- nonlinear: skip degenerate corner-solution fits
instead of tabulating them
- nonlinear: allow general selection cutoffs, cluster
SEs by study, report pub probabilities
- options: flatten nested user_input on create, honor
mock input, fix CONST scope
- options: merge nested user_input safely and
validate before overwrite
- options: normalize .yaml suffix when loading
options file
- options: keep the unified column store when
migrating legacy options
- options: stop options rewrites from dropping column
records and value shapes
- output: plain ellipsis, no raw NA cells, label
standardized BPE values
- output: resolve auto output dir per options file
and never persist it
- p-hacking: orient caliper tail, cluster by study,
show direction
- p-hacking: rewrite Cox-Shi against canonical
Elliott et al. implementation
- p_hacking: respecify caliper test as
Gerber-Malhotra binomial test
- p_hacking_tests: seed LCM/MAIVE, real cpp fallback,
skip reasons
- p_hacking_tests: quick wins from p-hacking suite
review (#257)
- p_hacking_tests: keep install/upgrade hints in
MAIVE skip reason
- preview: skip utils::View() when no data viewer is
available
- rng: strip BMS wall-clock reseed and key method RNG
streams by name
- run: cap forked workers at the environment’s
process limit
- run: pin BLAS/OpenMP to one thread while forking
method layers
- run: use a fork-safe graphics device so parallel
runs can export plots
- stem,robma: cluster RoBMA by study, align stem MSE
table and plot rows
- tests: probe an actual JAGS model fit to catch
macOS oldrel crash
- tests: avoid rjags segfault in robma JAGS probe on
CI
- tests: probe rjags for JAGS in a subprocess to
avoid CI crash
- variable_summary_stats: obs column counts
non-missing observations
- vcov: warn on silent clustering downgrades;
sign-correct zero-SE t-stats
- vcov: warn on no-cluster single-step downgrade to
stats::vcov()
- viz: skip plot previews in forked workers to avoid
quartz fork crash
- viz: probe the cairo device instead of trusting
capabilities()
Code Refactoring
- add shared method registration helper and standard return
contract
- make options.load pure and parse the options template once
- box plot max boxes per plot option
- simplify non-idiomatic constructs and reuse significance_mark
- unify bma and fma into a single table
- handle data columns through reconciliation
- replace the cli replay cache layer with plain memoise
- unify file-read dispatch and post-read normalization
- collapse the 5-level autonomy system into a 3-value enum
- vectorize row-wise loops and hoist repeated computation
- unify required, reserved, and computed column name lists
- declarative method metadata replacing execution order and dependency
plumbing
- unify weak-instrument F threshold constant in exogeneity.R
- strict option access and fail-loud coercion
- split prepare_data into configure, compute, and persist phases
- consolidate R CMD check workarounds into one generated manifest
- unify column mapping and data config into one per-column store
- extract shared helpers for duplicated logic
- remove dead functions, unused imports and unreachable branches
- restore stats imports used via formula environments, with
comment
- bma: extract shared unwrap_bma_result from bpe and
fma
- bpe: split best_practice_estimate into econometric
core and viz plots
- data: drop dead interactive branch, move column
mapping persistence
- data: split schema_reconcile into detect, ui,
persist layers
- data: extract shared column profiler into
data/profile.R
- data: move na/se-zero configure resolvers into
data/configure.R
- econometric: route four vcov ladders through shared
robust_vcov
- elliott: make C++ CDF simulation the sole
production path
- formatting: consolidate nonlinear formatting
helpers into shared modules
- formatting: share one summary-table builder across
econometric tests
- methods: extract shared resolve_variable_groups
equal/gltl resolver
- options: add spec-driven option resolver and
migrate method files
- options: template-sourced typed option
accessors
- options: share one option type registry across
coerce and validate
- visualization: unify plot export and tick-interval
math
- visualization: drop ggtext, use plain element_text
for ticks
Features
- add opt-in RoBMA runtime method
- add bpe
- add BMA prior-comparison plot for multiple parameter sets
- attach STEM funnel and MSE plots to nonlinear_tests output
- support user-defined data subset conditions
- add economic significance table to best_practice_estimate
- add BPE per-factor density and sorted scatter plots
- add BPE summary stats grouped by factor levels
- bma: announce auto-included priority moderators
during variable selection
- cache: harden cache signature and enable caching by
default
- cli: add scriptable command-line interface with
cli.run and cli.install
- coverage: measure inst/artma box modules, upload
merged report to codecov
- data: reconcile column-mapping conflicts and give
actionable collision errors
- fma: add cluster-robust standard errors clustered
by study_id
- funnel_plot: report filtered observation count in
subtitle and output
- hooks: add local git hooks for style/lint and
commit-msg checks
- linear: precheck panel specs and skip with
plain-language reasons
- linear: enable bootstrap CIs for the between
effects spec
- maive: add automatic first-stage selection from
sample-size spread
- maive: split MAIVE into its own method with
sectioned, annotated output
- nonlinear: report effect heterogeneity (tau) for
STEM, Hierarchical, and Endogenous Kink
- output: add LaTeX table export via
output.table_formats
- p-hacking: make Elliott supports configurable and
surface Cox-Shi skip reasons (#369)
- p_hacking: raise default LCM iterations to
10000
- report: add self-contained HTML report renderer via
report.render()
- robma: enable parallel MCMC chains when cores
allow
- run: run independent runtime methods in parallel
layers
- visualization: add optional interactive HTML plot
export
- bpe: split study row indices once instead of
rescanning per study
- elliott: share pair lambdas across Cox-Shi bound
orders
- funnel_plot: split rows by study once in
aggregate_study_medians
- linear: fast-path random effects bootstrap via
Swamy-Arora replication
- linear: fast-path bootstrap estimates without
per-replication plm/vcov
- linear: skip vcov math and trim columns in
bootstrap replications
- linear: hoist cluster split out of bootstrap
loop
- methods: cache only expensive stages via cached
opt-in on register_runtime_method
- p_hacking_tests: cache LCM critical-value
simulation under a narrow key
- prima_facie_graphs: vectorize group column and
median split construction
- stem: replace O(n^2) outer-product submatrix sums
with cumsum
- visualization: use ragg for faster PNG export when
available
2026-02-11
Bug Fixes
- parallel cdfs workers function in the elliott model
calculations
- add missing global variables
- description versino control
- failing funnel plot tests
- duplicate data reading during the main pipeline
- attempt to remove extra printed rows
- recover stale options files with template defaults
- box imports around the elliott cpp functions
- maive output formatting issue
- set the artma open results default to false
- remaining lints in the package
- lints around the project
- lint setup
- elliott tests
- elliott options
- results.open folder path
- fma option template duplicates
- r cmd check notes/warnings
- box_plot detection
- failing tests
- add proper visualization text to gg plots
- return the main results of the artma method silently
- mice algorithm na handling
- pressing enter upon options value ask leads to file/folder
choice
- box plot rendering, autonomy level detection
- update the methods return objects to print the output into console
cleanly
- test example lib imports
- lints
- remove failing tests
- missing success print; create an options file if none exist when
necessary
- the interactive columns mapping now works
- interactive mapping column selection
- data reading during data preprocessing
- more lint issues
- indentation issues
- ensure the system editors are available for editor opening
- options edge cases
- add computed columns to data config and suppress misleading
warnings
- use full path when saving preferences to options file
- automatically remove aliased variables during BMA analysis
- display variable reason correctly in suggestion output
- correct data config import and add integration tests
- remove automatic addition of ‘se’ to BMA variables
- only exclude effect variable from BMA selection
- update bma coefficient extraction
- update the way bma objects are validated upon input
- update the maive package reference
- move AER and ivmodel from Imports to Suggests
- handle vector values in option NA validation
Code Refactoring
- make study ID column detection smarter
- add a parallel cdfs computation
- make the data config option sparse
- unify and clean up visualization logic
- unify study_id vs. study usage
- clean up the autonomy system
- make the follow-up user choice prompts respect autonomy
- clean up the package structure
- redirect user to r universe links in more help
- unify the invocation public api methods to ‘artma’
- the data source is now read in two-steps to enable column
mapping
- add better whitespace na handling when reading data
- the na handling method now distinguishes between numeric and
non-numeric columns
- updated column position verification
- the data preprocessing now removes empty columns based on quality,
not position
- simplify editor detection
- change the maive installation to use the CRAN version
- the bma variables selection is now saved to the data config
node
- modify bma variable selection; add prompts
- add explanatory messages and fully silence clubSandwich warning
- improve progress messages and silence clubSandwich warning
- add Caliper tests to p-hacking method (partial integration)
- remove 5 unnecessary dependencies with custom polyfills
Features
- automatically open latest results through results.open by
default
- add prima-facie graphs
- add rcpp, elliott cdfs faster calculation
- persist the temporary results directories in the user option
files
- add a unified results handling
- add FMA
- add a t-stat histogram runtime method
- add viz public methods
- add a data.preview function
- add funnel plot
- add visualization module; box-plot
- add help suppression for some option prompts
- add the autonomy system
- add a welcome message
- implement the select all option of the climenu
- add a public method options.delete
- add options vignette, improve the ask/utils functions
- allow the user to use a mock source DF
- add auto columns detection
- add better column type detection
- add functionality for choosing a suitable editor
- enhance optional column computation with comprehensive
auto-calculation
- add reusable save preference prompt for configuration choices
- add comprehensive missing value handling system with smart
prompts
- add collinearity detection and priority mechanism for BMA variable
suggestions
- implement automatic variable suggestion for BMA
- add interactive variable selection for effect summary stats
- add make stats command for repository statistics
- implement automatic variable suggestion for effect summary
stats
- implement interactive BMA variable selection
- implement Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) method
- add winsorization to data preprocessing
- add caliper_display_ratios option for Caliper tests
- enhance p-hacking tests output formatting
- integrate MAIVE package from GitHub
- integrate Caliper, Elliott, and MAIVE as unified p-hacking
tests
- add p-hacking tests as a new runtime method
- add progress bars and fix hash overflow warnings
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2025-04-15
Bug Fixes
- the cran submission workflow now parses the correct artifact
name
2025-04-15
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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
2025-04-14
Bug Fixes
- the cran comments build workflow should now target the file
correctly
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
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
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