NEWS

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maotai 0.3.0 (2026-01-13)

• Replaced deprecated routines in C++ components.

maotai 0.2.6 (2025-02-27)

• New functions for Wasserstein-like geometry of von Mises-Fisher distributions.
• LEiDA() added for computational neuroscience application.

maotai 0.2.5 (2023-03-29)

• metricdepth() and rotationS2() added.

maotai 0.2.4 (2022-02-03)

• cov2corr() and cov2pcorr() are added.

maotai 0.2.3

• A minor typo fixed.

maotai 0.2.2 (2021-10-25)

• Metric multidimensional scaling now uses the original version of SMACOF algorithm written in C++.

maotai 0.2.1 (2021-09-21)

• $k$-nearest neighbor search with sparse output is now supported.

maotai 0.2.0 (2021-06-09)

• Change of maintainer's contact and website.

maotai 0.1.9 (2021-04-24)

• Replaced nearest neighbor search with RANN package.

maotai 0.1.8 (2020-10-31)

• Added SMACOF implementation.

maotai 0.1.7 (2020-08-31)

• Fixed some minor bugs.

maotai 0.1.6 (2020-05-17)

• NEWS reformatted and package website is now available.

• Added functions : checkdist() and checkmetric().

maotai 0.1.5 (2020-04-11)

• Added functions : bmds(), cmds(), kmeanspp(), nem(), nef(), tsne().

• distgmm() is removed for better composition of the package.

maotai 0.1.4 (2020-04-01)

• bug fix : Armadillo type-casting errors are fixed.

• bux fix : example visualization par settings are corrected.

maotai 0.1.3 (2020-03-02)

• Added functions : boot.mblock(), boot.stationary(), epmeans(), and weiszfeld().

maotai 0.1.2 (2019-12-05)

• mmd2test() function is added.

maotai 0.1.1 (2019-10-25)

• Added functions : dpmeans(), distgmm(), and ecdfdist().

maotai 0.1.0 (2019-10-12)

• initial release on CRAN.