exametrika v1.14.0 release announcement

[kosugitti]

exametrika v1.14.0 is now on CRAN. There are no breaking changes; all
deprecated names from previous releases continue to work unchanged.

Highlight: plot.exametrika() now honors graphical parameters in ...

The plot.exametrika() help page has always documented that you can pass
graphical parameters to the underlying plot functions through ..., but
in practice they were captured and never forwarded, so las, pch, and
friends had no effect (flagged in an R Journal review). This release fixes
it for real.

plot(result.LRA, type = "IRP", items = 1:4, nc = 2, nr = 2,
     las = 2, pch = 16)

Standard graphical parameters — las (axis-label orientation), pch
(plotting symbol), cex, col, lty, lwd, and so on — now take effect
across all plot types, including manually drawn axes. User values
take precedence over the package defaults, so xlab, ylab, and main
can be overridden too. No new dependency was added (base graphics only).

Bug fixes

• Binary IRM crash on real data with missing values.
  Biclustering_IRM() on a binary data object with missing cells crashed
  inside rmultinom() because the -1 missingness marker was aggregated
  directly. The masked matrix is now used downstream. Reproduced on HCI
  and binarised SAT12 data.
• Graphical Lasso: graceful handling of numerical divergence. When the
  block coordinate descent of Glasso() diverged on near-singular
  polychoric matrices (N <= p), it used to crash and discard all work.
  It now warns, breaks the lambda search, and returns the best solution
  found so far (skipped lambdas are marked NA in path).
• Cosmetic fixes: IRT Test Information Function plot title typo,
  Biclustering array-plot panel title typo ("Clusterd" → "Clustered"),
  and four user-facing message typos.

Install

install.packages("exametrika")

Full changelog: https://kosugitti.github.io/exametrika/news/

Feedback and feature requests are welcome in Discussions / Issues.