NEWS
pulsar 0.3.13 (2026-03-29)
- Replace mclapply (fork-based) with parLapply (PSOCK cluster) when ncores > 1, fixing OpenMP+fork deadlocks on GCC/Linux (CRAN r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc)
- Multi-core mode now works on Windows
pulsar 0.3.12 (2026-03-19)
- Guard examples and vignettes against missing suggested packages (fixes CRAN noSuggests check failures)
- Pin huge (>= 1.5) in Suggests
- Use arXiv DOI format in Description field
pulsar 0.3.11 (2023-09-24)
- Fixes an issue where all the variability values are lower than the variability threshold, select the lowest possible value in Bounded Stars. Fix by @gnopuz83
- Future-proof changes to Matrix v1.6-2
- Fix change in citation style
- Fix Mac chip instability
pulsar 0.3.9 (2023-01-08)
- Fix BigQuic-dependent tests
pulsar 0.3.8 (2022-08-27)
- Future-proof sparse Matrix convertors for Matrix-1.4-2 in code and docs
- Fix one S3 class check
- Fixed broken urls in docs
pulsar 0.3.7 (2020-08-07)
- Remove the deprecated QUIC package from suggested packages in DESCRIPTION file.
- Replace QUIC with BigQuic (from CRAN) in tests
pulsar 0.3.6 (2019-08-22)
- Better error handling for multicore pulsar jobs.
pulsar 0.3.5 (2019-03-07)
- Fix other-criteria vignette by explicitly importing the Matrix library
- Export update.pulsar
pulsar 0.3.4 (2018-09-02)
- Fixed tests based on deprecated batchtools function
- Added internal refit method for faster parallelization
pulsar 0.3.3 (2018-06-12)
- Fixed tests that violated CRAN policy
- Changed internals method for resolving to batchtools (v0.9.10) default when sourcing a config file
- Fixed refit criterion in 'other-criteria' vignette
pulsar 0.3.2 (2018-03-17)
Changes
- Fixed tests that were failing on Windows.
- Fixed a few typos in the docs.
pulsar 0.3.0
Changes
- Migrate to the new and improved batchtools for batch.pulsar & related functions. BatchJobs is deprecated.
** Updated how default config files and templates are sourced
** Removed the getTempDir function
** Updated documentation
** Deprecated batch.pulsar progressbar arguments, now controlled by batchtools options.
- Fixed some failing tests. Small data tests were too sensitive to parameter choices, substituted larger p datasets.
- Similar fix for problem vignettes.