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rvec 1.0.2

The minimum R version has been reduced from 4.3.0 to 4.2.0. However, it does not appear to be possible to safely implement matrix multiplication without matrixOps, which was introduced in 4.3.0. Methods for matrix multiplication are therefore only implemented if R >= 4.3.0.

Interface is now sufficiently stable that the "experimental" lifecycle badge has been removed.

Added functions draws_sd(), draws_var(), draws_cv() for summarising across draws. (#37)
Added function pool_draws(), for combining draws across categories. (#35)
Added functions new_rvec_chr(), new_rvec_dbl(), new_rvec_int(), and new_rvec_lgl(). Deprecated function new_rvec(). The new functions initialise a vector with 0, "", or FALSE, while new_rvec() initialised it with NA, which was awkward. (#36)
Added quotation marks to printed rvec_chr objects.
Added %*% method for Matrix::Matrix objects. (#31)

Added function prob(), a version of draws_mean() that works only with logical rvecs. (#27)
rvec() and rvec_dbl() now accept sparse matrices (inheriting from "Matrix"), in addition to dense matrices. (#25)
Function rbinom_rvec(), rgeom_rvec(), rhyper_rvec(), rmultinom_rvec(), rnbinom_rvec(), and rpois_rvec() now always return doubles, even when the counts are small. The standard R approach of giving integers when counts are small and doubles when counts are large was generating Valgrind errors in dependent packages.

Removed is.numeric methods for rvecs. These had been creating problems with functions from non-rvec packages, since is.numeric generally implies that an object is a base R style numeric vector.
Removed space from around = when printing rvec_lgl, so that, for instance, p = 0.5 becomes p=0.5.
rvec(), rvec_chr(), rvec_dbl(), rvec_int(), and rvec_lgl() now accept rvec arguments.
draws_ci() now accepts width arguments with length greater than 1.
Improved error messages from distribution functions.

Added function new_rvec(), which creates rvecs with specified values for type, length, and n_draw, consisting entirely of NAs.
Added function extract_draw(), which extracts a single draw from an rvec.

Added method for is.numeric(). (Can't add methods for is.character(), is.double(), is.integer(), is.logical(), since these are non-generic primitives.