NEWS
paneltests 1.0.5 (2026-05-04)
- Resubmission addressing CRAN reviewer (Benjamin Altmann) feedback on 1.0.4:
- Added DOI / ISBN links to all references in the Description field (Hsiao 2014, Swamy 1970, Pesaran 2004).
- Removed the surrounding single quotes around function names in the Description text and added trailing parentheses, e.g.
'xtpretest'-> xtpretest().
- Synchronised CITATION version with DESCRIPTION (1.0.5).
- No code or behavior changes.
paneltests 1.0.4
- Resubmission to CRAN.
- Removed UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) from
inst/CITATION and from R/xtcsdq.R, R/xtmispanel.R, R/xtqsh.R. The BOM in inst/CITATIONwas causing the CRAN incoming auto-check to fail with: Invalid citation information in 'inst/CITATION': 1:1: unexpected input.
- Synchronised the version string in
inst/CITATION with DESCRIPTION.
- No code or behavior changes.
paneltests 1.0.3
- Resubmission. Removed redundant "a suite of tools for" from the Description start. All references use
doi:10.xxx format.
paneltests 1.0.0
- Initial CRAN release.
- Consolidates four previously separate packages (xtpretest, xtmispanel, xtcsdq, xtqsh) into a single panel-data pre-testing suite.
- Implements:
- Hsiao (2014) homogeneity F-tests (F1/F2/F3),
- Swamy (1970) parameter heterogeneity test,
- Pesaran (2004) cross-sectional dependence test (
xtpretest),
- Missing-data detection, mechanism testing, and imputation for unbalanced panels (
xtmispanel),
- Demetrescu, Hosseinkouchack and Rodrigues (2023) quantile-regression cross-sectional dependence tests (
xtcsdq),
- Galvao, Juhl, Montes-Rojas and Olmo (2017) panel quantile-regression slope homogeneity statistics (
xtqsh).