NEWS

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rMEA 1.3.0

[2022/02/09]

• shuffle_segments() reinstated with new code from Fabian.
  • switched to data.table::fread to improve import performance in readMEA
  • parallel computation
    • MEAccf() now uses parallel computation by default
    • readMEA() can use parallel computation, albeit with short files it does not provide any meaningful advantage (it may even significantly downgrade performance).

rMEA 1.2.2 (2022-02-17)

[2022/08/30]

• MEAlagPlot mea.line and contrast.line parameters changed to alpha values to have better control.

[2022/02/09]

• shuffle_segments() was unreliable. It was disabled until someone fixes it.

rMEA 1.2.1

[2021/03/31] minor bugfixes

• lagSec=0 and lagSec=1 are now supported
  • documentation update

rMEA 1.2.0 (2020-08-04)

[2020/07/29] Yearly update to CRAN

• the package is now compatible with R version 4.0
  • New function: shuffle_segment(), offering within subject shuffling. This function is included for replication of older studies. shuffle() is still more conservative, and suggested approach to pseudosynchrony.
  • New function CCFartefacts() to identify sequences with extremely high correlation, which may require inspection of the videos.
  • New function: MEAreplace() allows to automatically delete (set to NA) or replace windows of MEA data, based on a data frame created by hand, or with functions like CCFartefacts().

Minor changes

• various improvements in the documentation
• all function now dynamically use ccfResNames.
• writeMEA now reports all ccfResNames.
• ccfRes now stores as well the 'bestLag' values, and the start and end of the synchronization windows (thanks to anonymous reviewer 2 for the suggestion).
• MEAheatmap received a new parameter 'mirror' that offers finer control on the color scale.
• shuffle() now allows to specify size = "max", to use all possible combinations.
• automatic detection of 'na.rm' arguments in MEAscale FUNs was buggy. So now there is a new argument 'removeNA' which applies na.omit on the data before submitting it to the scaling FUN.
• improved the MEAmap use of dots (...), which are now recycled and iterating correctly (when not a function)

rMEA 1.1.0.9002

• fixed a bug preventing heatmaps to be plotted with missing data
  • improved MEAdistplot() to allow grouping by "id", "session", and "group"

rMEA 1.1.0.9001

• improved MEAdistplot() to support single session groups
  • fixed a bug in MEAdistplot for plotting single groups

rMEA 1.1.0 (2019-03-22)

[2019/03/22] Yearly update to CRAN

• included LICENSE file
  • improved fisher's transform performance
  • updated rangeRescale function
  • fixed minor bug in heatmap scaling
  • added heatmap "rescale" parameter to highlight small trends in data
  • improved axis label in various plots
  • plot.MEA can now use "duration" instead of "to"
  • various minor bug fixes
  • added plot.MEAlist

rMEA 1.0.0.9012

• Implemented "[.MEAlist" method to extract from MEAlist while retaining metadata.
• included a function to extract CCF values (getCCF())
• shuffle now retains the names of the original signals in its uid

rMEA 1.0.0.9011

• fixed a bug in plot.MEA when interpolation results in NA vals
• updated documentation in readMEA
• all functions accepting MEAlist objects now should accept a list instead and try to parse as MEAlist internally
• new getter functions for MEA and MEAlist attributes

rMEA 1.0.0.9010

• more informative error messages
• fixed smaller bugs

rMEA 1.0.0 (2018-03-16)

• Everything should work