CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.1_1.0   (2022-02-15)

  o  this is previously called package ccboost. The name change better helps to understand better the algorithm
                CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.1_1.3   (2023-08-03)

  o  modify executing check_s following the update of mpath package on function R/check_s
                CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.1_1.4   (2024-03-06)

  o  vignettes/irbst.Rnw was substantially modified
  o  how to update Rd? The devtools::document() function updates the NAMESPACE file, and devtools::install() reinstalls the package with the updated documentation.
     library(roxygen2)
     roxygen2::roxygenize()
     devtools::document()
  o  how to build package?
     R CMD build --compact-vignettes="both" irboost
  o  convert irbst.Rnw to irbst_knitr.Rmd
     https://ulriklyngs.com/post/2021/12/02/how-to-adapt-any-latex-template-for-use-with-r-markdown-in-four-steps/
       1. Obtain irbst_jds.tex using
          R CMD Sweave irbst.Rnw
          cp irbst.tex irbst_jds.tex
          change $ to $$
          sed -i 's/\$/\$\$/g' irbst_jds.tex
          add $body$ in irbst_jds.tex to integrate code in irbst_knitr.Rmd

       2. In irbst_knitr.Rmd with the following lines
---
title: "Unified robust boosting"
output: 
  bookdown::pdf_document2:
    template: irbst_jds.tex
---
  o  convert irbst.Rnw to irbst.Rmd
       1. convert Sweave format irbst.Rnw to knitr using ...
          library(knitr)
          Sweave2knitr('irbst.Rnw') # you will get irbst-knitr.Rnw by default
       2. convert irbst-knitr.Rnw to irbst.Rmd using R function Rnw2Rmd from package mdsr
  o  change $ to $$ in a text file
     sed -i 's/\$/\$\$/g' your_file.txt
  o  some parameters in R/irboost.R are now moved to a new argument params, a list of parameters. The argument params in irboost is passed to argument params in xgboost::xgboost
                
                CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.1_1.5   (2024-04-17)

  o  move the code part of irbst_knitr.Rmd to irbst_code.Rmd
  o  remove irbst.Rnw, irbst_jds.tex, irbst_knitr.Rmd and associated latex format files
                
                CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.2_1.0   (2025-02-04)

  o  minor update vignette/irbst_code.Rmd
  o  update the reference with published paper: Unified robust boosting
                
                CHANGES in `irboost' VERSION 0.2_1.1   (2026-03-15)

  o  Compatibility updates for newer xgboost (tested with xgboost 3.2.0.1) to
     preserve behavior observed with older xgboost (e.g., 1.7.10.1).

  o  Fix multi-class softmax objective (objective="multi:softprob") for newer
     xgboost where the returned soft-probability vector ordering differs from
     older versions:
       - add internal helper .reshape_softprob() to detect the correct ordering
         (by observation vs by class) using the row-sum-to-1 property.
       - update irboost() and irb.train() loss calculations to use the reshaped
         probability matrix so robust weights are computed consistently.
       - update predict.irboost_model() to return multi:softprob predictions in
         the historical "by observation" order so existing user code that does
         matrix(pred, ncol=num_class, byrow=TRUE) remains valid.
       - avoid reliance on non-exported xgboost helper APIs (e.g.,
         xgboost::xgb.parameters) so R CMD check does not warn about missing or
         unexported objects; multi:softprob output is detected by length and
         normalized accordingly.
       - store training params in returned irboost_model objects (new element
         `params`) for reliable downstream behavior (e.g., predict).

  o  Ensure single-threaded behavior by default for CRAN checks and for
     reproducibility:
       - if params$nthread is not supplied, set params$nthread <- 1 in
         irboost(), irb.train(), and irb.train_aft().
       - update Rd examples to use nthread=1 and set common thread environment
         variables (OMP_NUM_THREADS, OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS, MKL_NUM_THREADS, etc.)
         to avoid "CPU time > elapsed time" check NOTES on multi-core machines.
       - pass nthread explicitly to xgboost::xgb.DMatrix() inside irboost()
         to prevent multi-threaded DMatrix construction from inflating CPU time.
       - add OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=1 in Rd examples to further constrain OpenMP runtimes.

  o  Fix and reformat irb.train_aft() examples (params assignment and line wraps)
     to satisfy Rd line width checks and keep examples reproducible.

  o  Vignette maintenance (vignettes/irbst_code.Rmd):
       - switch to a static HTML vignette (static_irbst.html + .asis) to support
         xgboost outputs that are HTML widgets (e.g., xgb.plot.tree()).
       - replace deprecated xgboost::xgboost(..., params=...) usage with
         xgboost::xgb.DMatrix + xgboost::xgb.train().
       - make cross-validation output robust when best_iteration is NULL
         (fallback to which.min on evaluation_log).
       - remove network dependency by using MASS::Boston instead of downloading
         the housing dataset at build time.
       - minor reproducibility/timing cleanups (explicit tree_method="exact",
         seeds, and misclassification rate reporting).

  o  Update maintainer email address in DESCRIPTION and documentation.