NEWS

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jrt 1.1.3 (2025-07-31)

• New all.mirt.objects slot in jrt objects to store all mirt objects created during the automatic estimation process, to facilitate further analysis without needing to re-fit the models.
• Argument to change the x and y axis titles in the info.plot() function.
• Fixes for compatibility with recent versions of the ggplot2 package.
• Vignette and warnings/notes improvements.

jrt 1.1.2 (2023-04-13)

• Hannan–Quinn (HQ) Criterion is now in outputs, and can now be used for automatic selection criterion.
• Vignette improvements for clarity.

jrt 1.1.1 (2022-10-08)

• Fixes issue in jrt() with slope-constrained models when ordinal scales start with 0 rather than 1.
• Added a new example dataset with missing data.
• Patched issues with displaying of amount of missing data.

jrt 1.1.0 (2021-12-10)

• Fixes for compatibility with recent versions of the mirt package.
• Fixes for compatibility with recent versions of the ggplot2 package.
• Update package citation.
• Added documentation of S4 classes/methods.
• Added the possibility to override the automatic facet naming in jcc.plot() with argument facet.names.
• Added the possibility to change the opacity of the different category lines in jcc.plot() with line.opacity.
• Simplified messages for situations with judges/items with unobserved categories.
• Made Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) the default option in model comparisons.

jrt 1.0.1 (2019-05-06)

• Simulated dataset is now directly included as jrt::ratings.
• Model weights (often called Akaike weights) are now presented in the model selection output (per reviewer suggestion).
• Calls to mirt can now be showed with show.calls = TRUE argument in the jrt()function.
• References were updated.

jrt 1.0.0 (2019-01-04)

• Initial release with functions jrt(), jcc.plot() and info.plot()