epinowcast/epinowcast: Epinowcast 0.2.2

This is a minor release that fixes a bug in the handling of optional initial conditions that was introduced by a recent change in cmdstan 2.32.1. Upgrading is recommended for all users who wish to use versions of cmdstan beyond 2.32.0. In addition to fixing this issue, the release also includes some minor documentation and vignette improvements, along with enhancements in input checking.

@sbfnk and @seabbs contributed code to this release.

@seabbs reviewed pull requests for this release.

@sbfnk and @seabbs reported bugs reported bugs, made suggestions, or contributed to discussions that led to improvements in this release.

• Improved the handling of optional initial conditions so that they are consistently passed as arrays to stan as required by cmdstan 2.32.1. This fix is required in order to use versions of cmdstan beyond 2.32.0. See #276 by @seabbs and self-reviewed.

• Added input checking for max_delay in enw_preprocess_data() to ensure that the maximum delay is greater than or equal to 1 and that it can be coerced to be an integer. See #274 by @sbfnk and reviewed by @seabbs.

• Improved the discrete delay distributions vignette including escaping functions to improve readibility and right-closing discretised bins. See #275 by @sbfnk and reviewed by @seabbs.
• Improved the documentation for max_delay in enw_preprocess_data() and fixed a typo in the same documentation. See #274 by @sbfnk and reviewed by @seabbs.

• Issue 273: Use array syntax for initial conditions in order to work with cmdstan 2.32.1 by @seabbs in https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/pull/276
• Issue 278: minor improvements to the discrete delay distributions vignette by @sbfnk in https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/pull/275
• Issue 279: Improved enw_preprocess_data documentation and input checking by @sbfnk in https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/pull/274
• 0.2.2 release by @seabbs in https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/pull/280

Full Changelog: https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/compare/v0.2.1...v0.2.2