frbs News

frbs 3.3-0 (22/7/2026)

CRAN compliance fixes

• DESCRIPTION: Replaced deprecated Author/Maintainer fields with the modern Authors@R field using person() objects.

• inst/CITATION: Replaced deprecated citEntry() with bibentry(), and replaced personList(as.person(...)) with c(person(...)).

• man/summary.frbs.Rd: Fixed two “lost braces” warnings reported by checkRd: added missing \ before code{"TRIANGLE"}, and escaped bare curly braces around the example parameter vector.

• vignettes/lala2015frbs.bib: Added missing bibliography entries randomforest2 (Breiman 2001, Machine Learning) and nnet2 (Venables & Ripley 2002, Modern Applied Statistics with S) referenced in the vignette.

• DESCRIPTION, man/frbs-package.Rd, inst/CITATION: Updated all http:// URLs to https://. Replaced broken sci2s.ugr.es/dicits/software/FRBS URL (returning HTTP 500) with the canonical CRAN package page https://cran.r-project.org/package=frbs.

• inst/doc/*.pdf: Compacted vignette PDFs with tools::compactPDF(gs_quality = "ebook") to remove the R CMD check --as-cran PDF size WARNING.

Win-builder fixes

• R/FRBS.MainFunction.R, NAMESPACE: Addressed S3 method consistency NOTE by adapting rep.rule signature to function(x, ...) and registering S3method(rep, rule).

• vignettes/lala2015frbs.ltx, vignettes/lala2015pmml.Rtex: Canonicalized URLs to https:// and fixed the malformed CRAN URL http://cran.r-project.org/package=frbs..

• vignettes/lala2015frbs.bib, vignettes/lala2015pmml.bib: Replaced non-canonical and unstable links with canonical https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=... URLs where applicable, and updated remaining references to modern https:// endpoints.

• vignettes/lala2015frbs.bib: Fixed further URL redirects — library.epfl.ch → https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/fr/?nr=2634, added missing trailing slash to www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/, and http://www.rmetrics.org → https://www.rmetrics.org/.

• vignettes/lala2015pmml.Rtex: Replaced two occurrences of the broken sci2s.ugr.es/dicits/software/frbsJpmml URL (returning HTTP 500) with https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=frbs.