Release v0.2.6

DESCRIPTION

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 Type: Package
 Package: CRE
 Title: Interpretable Discovery and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
-Version: 0.2.5.9000
+Version: 0.2.6
 Authors@R: c(
-    person("Naeem", "Khoshnevis", , "nkhoshnevis@g.harvard.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"),
+    person("Naeem", "Khoshnevis", , "nkhoshnevis@g.harvard.edu", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4315-1426", AFFILIATION = "FASRC")),
     person("Daniela Maria", "Garcia", , "danielagarcia@college.harvard.edu", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3226-3561")),
     person("Riccardo", "Cadei", , "rcadei@hsph.harvard.edu", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2416-8943")),
     person("Kwonsang", "Lee", , "kwonsanglee.stat@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5823-4331")),
-    person("Falco Joannes", "Bargagli Stoffi", , "fbargaglistoffi@hsph.harvard.edu", role = "aut",
+    person("Falco Joannes", "Bargagli Stoffi", , "fbargaglistoffi@hsph.harvard.edu", role = c("aut","cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6131-8165"))
   )
-Maintainer: Naeem Khoshnevis <nkhoshnevis@g.harvard.edu>
+Maintainer: Falco Joannes Bargagli Stoffi <fbargaglistoffi@hsph.harvard.edu>
 Description: Provides a new method for interpretable heterogeneous 
     treatment effects characterization in terms of decision rules 
     via an extensive exploration of heterogeneity patterns by an 

README.md

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 ## Code of Conduct
 
 Please note that the CRE project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms. More information about the opening issues and contributing (i.e., git branching model) can be found on [CRE website](https://nsaph-software.github.io/CRE/articles/Contribution.html).
-
-
-
-## References
-
-Causal Rule Ensemble ([methodological paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09036))
-```bibtex
-@article{bargagli2023causal,
-  title={{Causal rule ensemble: Interpretable Discovery and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects}},
-  author={Bargagli-Stoffi, Falco J and Cadei, Riccardo and Lee, Kwonsang and Dominici, Francesca},
-  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09036},
-  year={2023}
-}
-```
-
-CRE (software paper)
-```bibtex
-@article{Cadei2023,
-  doi = {10.21105/joss.05587},
-  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05587},
-  year = {2023},
-  publisher = {The Open Journal},
-  volume = {8},
-  number = {92},
-  pages = {5587},
-  author = {Riccardo Cadei and Naeem Khoshnevis and Kwonsang Lee and Daniela Maria Garcia and Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi},
-  title = {CRE: An R package for interpretable discovery and inference of heterogeneous treatment effects},
-  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
-}
-}
-```
-
-CRE ([CRAN package](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=CRE))
-```bibtex
-@Manual{khoshnevis2023CRE,
-  title = {CRE: Interpretable Subgroups Identification Through Ensemble Learning of Causal Rules},
-  author = {Khoshnevis, Naeem and Garcia, Daniela Maria and Cadei, Riccardo and Lee, Kwonsang  and Bargagli-Stoffi, Falco J},
-  year = {2023},
-  note = {R package version 0.2.0.9000},
-  url = {https://github.com/NSAPH-Software/CRE},
-}
-```

cran-comments.md

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+Submission (April 17, 2024):
+
+We appreciate your efforts in reviewing the CRE 0.2.6 package. In this upgrade, we:
+
+- Transfer the maintainer role from Dr. Naeem Khoshnevis to Dr. Falco Joannes Bargagli Stoffi.
+
+All tests and checks have passed successfully.
+
+Best regards, 
+Falco Joannes Bargagli Stoffi