Added Zenodo badge to README.
Added further ORCID IDs for authors.
Changed package maintainer to Pete Philipson.
character format.Added ORCID IDs for authors.
Added Depsy badge to README.
nlme::lme() that is used to generate initial parameter estimates. In some bootstrap settings, this was throwing an error, leading to the entire bootstrap run to cease.Added Rd file for joint.object to describe what is contained in an object of class joint.
Added the ubiquitous aids dataset for teaching purposes.
Fixed an error in the liver dataset.
Updated the documentation for the datasets.
Added ByteCompile: true to the DESCRIPTION.
joint now allows for competing risks data (2 failure types) as per the model developed by Williamson et al. (2008). Other functions have been upgraded to handle the competing risks data.
A second vignette for the competing risks model is available.
General code and documentation tidy-up.
New unit tests added to increase code coverage.
Add simjoint function to simulate data from joint models with several types of association structures.
Removed jlike function and integrated likelihood calculation directly into em.alg function.
Minor bug fixes to the joint and em.alg functions.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Added some unit tests + code coverage monitoring integration.
Converted Rd files to roxygen.
Converted Sweave vignette to rmarkdown.
Updates to vignette and documentation.
Minor updates to DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE to pass R CMD checks, provide additional information, and removed dependency of boot and gdata packages.
Added a README.Rmd.
Added project to GitHub with integrated Travis CI and appveyor.