NEW FEATURES

• Export a genericget_discordant_edgelist where the attribute used to assess discordance as well as the values for each group can be specified.
• Exportparam.net_from_table andparam.net_to_table helper functions to convert parameter list and parameter data.frames used byparam.net.
• Allow saving the cumulative edge-list at the end of simulation using thesave.cumulative.edgelist control argument.
• Restarting a simulation now only requires savingdat$run. This removes the need to keep track of all the elements required at the end of a simulation. This requires the EpiModel user to put all elements indat$run.
• Exportget_forward_reachable andget_backward_reachable functions that works similarly to but more efficiently thantsna::tPath for multiple nodes and using cumulative edgelists.
• Exportoverwrite_attrs, a helper function to overwrite the attributes of the nodes with adata.frame at the start of the simulation. (see?overwrite_attrs).
• as.data.frame for model classesnetsim andicm now assign theepi.data.frame class in addition todata.frame.
• Add theplot.epi.data.frame method to plotepi.data.frame similar toplot.netsim(type = "epi").
• Exportas.epi.data.frame that assign theepi.data.frame class and validate that the inputdata.frame is correctly formatted.

OTHER

• Speed upraw.records andattr.history withcollections::queue instead ofbase::list.
• Addsave.diss.stats to the checked control values. Prevents undefined values when usingcontrol.net wrappers.
• Moveel.cuml,_last_unique_id, and_last_timestep andattr todat$run and update the tests; part of the restructuring of thedat object.
• Removedat$epi$sim.num(.g2) and replace it withdat$run$num(.g2) (single value). These values keep track of the current size of the network and are only needed during model runs.
• Speed up cumulative edge-list calculation by splitting current and historic edges.
• RemovedeleteAttr function deprecated since EpiModel v2.4.0.
• All function acceptingposit_ids as argument must now pass exclusively a numeric vector. Logical vectors are not accepted anymore as they were making the code heavier and were error prone.
• ergm.ego is now a suggestion to shorten the dependency chain. It needs to be installed separately to usenetest with anegor object.