- Use
open
instead ofopen.ff
for compatibility with ff 4.
- Follow Bioconductor S4 practices. If you have used
new()
to createsymDMatrix
instances, please use the constructorsymDMatrix()
instead. - Update citation instructions.
- Use
inherits(., *)
instead ofclass(.) == *
(R4 compat). - Replace testthat with tinytest.
- Load example symDMatrix readonly in examples to pass CRAN checks.
load.symDMatrix()
: Addreadonly
parameter and suggest to use when loading example dataset.
The symDMatrix package is now based on the LinkedMatrix package. The
internal structure of a symDMatrix
object has changed; therefore, previous
objects need to be regenerated. We apologize for the inconvenience, but assure
you that this change will make the package as a whole more robust and
efficient.
- The
symDMatrix
class inherits fromRowLinkedMatrix
. - Only storing the upper triangular matrix resulted in inefficient queries as requests to the lower triangle needed to be redirected. We now store the whole matrix, but use virtual transposes for the lower triangular matrix. Virtual transposes are very efficient as the block shares the same memory mapping as the block across the diagonal and the indices are rewritten locally.
- Matrix-like objects that do not support virtual transposes have been dropped (i.e., only the ff package is currently left as far as we know).
as.symDMatrix()
has been kept the same, but the S4 constructor has changed.
Initial release.