Merge pull request #144 from epiforecasts/fix-news

update news file format

NEWS.md

@@ -1,48 +1,50 @@
-## scoringutils 0.1.7.2
+# scoringutils 0.1.7.2
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - minor bug fixes (previously, 'interval_score' needed to be among the 
 selected metrics)
+- all data.tables are now returned as `table[]` rather than as `table`, 
+such that they don't have to be called twice to display the contents. 
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.7
+# scoringutils 0.1.7
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - added a function, `pairwise_comparison()` that runs pairwise comparisons 
 between models on the output of `eval_forecasts()`
 - added functionality to compute relative skill within `eval_forecasts()`
 - added a function to visualise pairwise comparisons
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - The WIS definition change introduced in version 0.1.5 was partly corrected
 such that the difference in weighting is only introduced when summarising 
 over scores from different interval ranges
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.
+# scoringutils 0.1.
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - `eval_forecasts()` can now handle a separate forecast and truth data set as 
 as input
 - `eval_forecasts()` now supports scoring point forecasts along side quantiles
 in a quantile-based format. Currently the only metric used is the absolute error
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - Many functions, especially `eval_forecasts()` got a major rewrite. While 
 functionality should be unchanged, the code should now be easier to maintain
 - Some of the data-handling functions got renamed, but old names are supported
 as well for now. 
 
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.5
+# scoringutils 0.1.5
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - changed the default definition of the weighted interval score. Previously, 
 the median prediction was counted twice, but is no only counted once. If you 
 want to go back to the old behaviour, you can call the interval_score function
 with the argument `count_median_twice = FALSE`. 
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.4
+# scoringutils 0.1.4
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - we added basic plotting functionality to visualise scores. You can now
 easily obtain diagnostic plots based on scores as produced by `eval_forecasts`.
 - `correlation_plot` shows correlation between metrics
@@ -51,16 +53,16 @@ chosen metric
 - `score_heatmap` visualises scores as heatmap
 - `score_table` shows a coloured summary table of scores
 
-### package updates
+## package updates
 - renamed "calibration" to "coverage"
 - renamed "true_values" to "true_value" in data.frames
 - renamed "predictions" to "prediction" in data.frames
 - renamed "is_overprediction" to "overprediction"
 - renamed "is_underprediction" to "underprediction"
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.3
+# scoringutils 0.1.3
 
-### (Potentially) Breaking changes
+## (Potentially) Breaking changes
 - the by argument in `eval_forecasts` now has a slightly changed meaning. It 
 now denotes the lowest possible grouping unit, i.e. the unit of one observation
 and needs to be specified explicitly. The default is now `NULL`. The reason for
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ to be included.
 - for the interval score, `weigh = TRUE` is now the default option.
 - (potentially planned) rename true_values to true_value and predictions to prediction. 
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - updated quantile evaluation metrics in `eval_forecasts`. Bias as well as 
 calibration now take all quantiles into account
 - Included option to summarise scores according to a `summarise_by` argument in 
@@ -81,31 +83,31 @@ as an arbitrary set of quantiles.
 - `eval_forecasts` can now return pit histograms. 
 - switched to ggplot2 for plotting
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.2
+# scoringutils 0.1.2
 
-### (Potentially) Breaking changes
+## (Potentially) Breaking changes
 - all scores in eval_forecasts were consistently renamed to lower case. 
 Interval_score is now interval_score, CRPS is now crps etc. 
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - included support for grouping scores according to a vector of column names
 in `eval_forecasts`
 - included support for passing down arguments to lower-level functions in 
 `eval_forecasts`
 - included support for three new metrics to score quantiles with 
 `eval_forecasts`: bias, sharpness and calibration
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - example data now has a horizon column to illustrate the use of grouping
 - documentation updated to explain the above listed changes
 
-## scoringutils 0.1.1
+# scoringutils 0.1.1
 
-### Feature updates
+## Feature updates
 - included support for a long as well as wide input formats for 
 quantile forecasts that are scored with `eval_forecasts`
 
-### Package updates
+## Package updates
 - updated documentation for the `eval_forecasts`
 - added badges to the Readme