                 Changes in version 1.2.4 (2025-12-17)                  

  - Restored kegg.RData and kegg.pathways.RData (November 2021) to
    ensure retro‑compatibility with benchmarked examples.

  - Added a new loadPathways() function to retrieve the latest pathway
    lists
    and their union (interactome) as igraph objects, using a wrapper for
    the graphite package from the Bioconductor project.

  - Added a tutorial vignette "Get Started", that was only on the Github
    before.

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.2.3.

                 Changes in version 1.2.3 (2025-01-29)                  

  - Update kegg.RData and kegg.pathways.RData (February 2025).

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.2.2.

                 Changes in version 1.2.2 (2024-07-22)                  

  - Delete predictSink() function. A general function for SEM-based
    out-of-sample prediction is now included in the SEMdeep package,
    which uses Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Machine Learning(ML)
    algorithms, has been released on CRAN: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SEMdeep

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.2.1.

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2024-02-06)                  

  - Added new predictSink() function for SEM-based out-of-sample
    prediction of (observed) response y-variables (sink nodes) given the
    values of (observed) x-variables (source and mediator) nodes from
    the fitted graph structure.

  - Added new transformData() function implementing various data
    trasformation methods to perform optimal scaling for ordinal or
    nominal data, and to help relax the assumption of normality
    (gaussianity) for continuous data.

  - Update kegg.RData and kegg.pathways.RData (February 2024).

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.2.0.

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2023-05-04)                  

  - Version 1.2.0 is a major release with several new features,
    including:

  - SEMrun() function. The algo ="cggm" based on high-dimensional GGGM
    is now implemented with the de-sparsified (de-biased) nodewise LASSO
    procedure applied on a Gaussian DAG model. The overall indices
    "deviance/df" and "srmr" are now computed using the observed
    correlation matrix also in p > n regime, where the estimated
    parameters are computed using the "regularized" (lambda corrected)
    correlation matrix.

  - SEMbap() function. New deconfounding methods to adjust the data
    matrix by removing latent sources of confounding encoded in them are
    implemented. The selected methods are either based on: (i) Bow-free
    Acyclic Paths (BAP) search (dalgo = "cggm" or "glpc"), (ii) LVs
    proxies as additional source nodes of the data matrix, Y (dalgo =
    "pc" or "glpc") or (iii) spectral transformation of Y (dalgo = "pc"
    or "trim").

  - SEMdag() function. New two-step DAG estimation from an input (or
    empty) graph, using in step 1) graph topological order or bottom-up
    search order, and in step 2) parent recovery with the LASSO-based
    algorithm are implemented. The estimate linear order are obtained
    from a priori graph topological vertex (LO = "TO") or level (LO =
    "TL") ordering, or with a data-driven vertex or level Bottom-up (LO
    = "BU") based on "glasso" residual variance ordering. The Top-Down
    (LO = "TD") is removed, being the BU more efficient to implement the
    topological search order.

  - Shipley.test() function. Added new argument cmax = Inf (default).
    This parameter can be used to perform only those tests where the
    number of conditioning variables does not exceed the given value.
    Output of the data.frame "dsep" has the same format of the
    localCI.test() function.

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.1.3.

                 Changes in version 1.1.3 (2022-10-12)                  

  - Added in SEMrun() function the argumet SE = c("standard" or "none"),
    if algo = "lavaan".

  - Added in SEMrun() function the bootstrap resampling of SE (95% CI),
    and new argoment n_rep = 1000 (default) to set the bootstrap samples
    or permutation flip, if algo = "ricf".

  - Added in SEMrun() function the de-sparsified SE (95% CI) of omega
    parameters (the elements of the precision matrix), if algo = "cggm".

  - Added new parameterEstimates() function for parameter estimates
    output of a fitted SEM for RICF and CGGM algorithms similar to
    lavaan.

  - Updating summary.RICF() and summary.GGM() functions with
    parameterEstimates().

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.1.2.

                 Changes in version 1.1.2 (2022-07-05)                  

  - Added new SEMtree() function for tree-based structure learning
    methods. Four methods with graph (type= "ST" or "MST") and
    data-driven (type = "CAT" or "CPDAG") algorithms are implemented.

  - Deprecated activeModule() and corr2graph() functions in favor of new
    SEMtree() function.

  - Added new dagitty2graph() function for conversion from a dagitty
    graph object to an igraph object.

  - Added new localCI.test() function for local conditional indipendence
    (CI) test of missing edges from an acyclic graph. This function is a
    wrapper to the localTests() function from package dagitty.

  - Added new arguments for SEMace() function: type = c("parents",
    "minimal", "optimal") to choose the conditioning set Z of Y over X;
    effect = c("all", "source2sink", "direct",) to choose the type of X
    to Y effect.

  - Added new argument for SEMdci() function: type = "ace" from SEMace()
    function with fixed type="parents", and effect="direct".

  - Change mergeGraph() function. Now the function combines groups of
    graph nodes using hierarchical clustering with prototypes derived
    from protoclust package or custom membership attribute (e.g.,
    cluster membership derived from clusterGraph() function).

  - Delete argument seed = c(0.05, 0.5, 0.5) in the function
    weigthGraph(). Now if group is NOT NULL also node weighting is
    actived, and node weights correspond to the sign and P-value of the
    z-test = b/SE(b) from glm(node ~ group).

  - Various fixed bugs discovered after the release 1.1.0.

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2022-03-24)                  

  - Version 1.1.0 is a major release with significant changes:

  - Added new arguments for SEMdag() function: LO = "TO" or "TD" for
    knowledge-based topological order (TO) or data-driven top-down order
    (TD), and penalty = TRUE or FALSE, binary penalty factors can be
    applied to each L1-coefficient.

  - Deprecated extendGraph() in favor of new resizeGraph() function,
    that re-sized graph, removing edges or adding edges/nodes if they
    are present or absent in a given reference network.

  - Change modelSerch(), interactive procedure is out, and now a three
    step procedure is implemented for search strategies with new
    SEMdag() and resizeGraph() functions.

  - Change SEMgsa() deleting D,A,E p-values with more performing
    activation and inhibition pvalues.

  - Added argument MCX2= TRUE or FALSE for Shipley.test() function, a
    Monte Carlo P-value of the combined C test.

  - Added new SEMdci() function for differentially connected genes
    inference.

  - Change properties(), now extracted components are order by component
    sizes.

  - Change argument q = q-quantile with q = 1-top/vcount(graph) in
    activeModule() function, now the induced graph for the "rwr" and
    "hdi" algorithms is defined by the top-n ranking nodes.

  - Various fixed bugs.

                 Changes in version 1.0.3 (2021-07-08)                  

  - First stable version on CRAN.

  - Update kegg.RData (November, 2021).

  - Added kegg.pathways.RData (November, 2021).

  - Added pkgdown website.

  - Various fixed bugs.

                        Changes in version 1.0.0                        

  - First stable version on GitHub
