Changes in version 1.0.0                        

Breaking changes

  - Renamed base class sentopicmodel to sentopicsmodel for consistency
    with the package name.

  - Renamed various functions and classes to snake_case style.
    
      - renamed function mergeTopics() to merge_topics()
      - renamed function topWords() to top_words()
      - renamed function plot_topWords() to plot_top_words()
      - renamed function chainsScores() to chains_scores()
      - renamed function chainsDistances() to chains_distances()
      - renamed S3 class topWords to top_words
      - renamed S3 class multiChains to multi_chains

  - Corrected naming of Reverse Joint Sentiment/Topic model (rJST). To
    align with this change, internal attributes of sentopicsmodel
    objects have been renamed from reversed to reverse.

  - Modified names of columns in the PicaultRenault_data dataset to
    syntactically valid names.

  - Removed .sentiment docvars in ECB_press_conferences dataset.

Other changes

  - Reformatted codebase using Air.
  - Removed a comprehensive assessment from the PicaultRenault_data
    dataset not present in the original paper.

                 Changes in version 0.7.5 (2025-09-29)                  

  - Fixed an example following change in suggested dependency.

  - Fixed a test following change in suggested dependency.

                 Changes in version 0.7.4 (2024-09-20)                  

  - Fixed a test

                 Changes in version 0.7.3 (2024-04-18)                  

  - Renamed grow() to fit() as a more intuitive name. grow() remains in
    the package for compatibility with older version.
  - Aligned the weight argument and the algorithm of topWords(...,
    method="FREX") to the original paper.
  - Fixed the unexported function get_ECB_conferences() to accommodates
    changes from the ECB website.
  - Fixed the model conversion from newer seededlda versions (1.2.0 and
    subsequent)

                 Changes in version 0.7.2 (2023-05-28)                  

  - Added as.LDA() method for outputs from the keyATM package.
  - Fixed conflict with data.table::melt() when data.table was loaded
    prior to sentopics

                 Changes in version 0.7.1 (2022-05-18)                  

  - Small change of a test sometimes failing on other platforms.

                 Changes in version 0.7.0 (2022-05-09)                  

  - Improved dependency to older version of R
  - Added conversions from other packages (lda, topicmodels and stm)
  - Changed the parallel back-end from doFuture to future.apply (hence
    removing the nCores argument from grow())
  - Added a function LDAvis() that prepare a dynamic visualization of
    LDA models using the LDAvis package
  - Reduced vignettes size
  - Bug fix: Fixed an error in as.tokens.dfm()

                 Changes in version 0.6.2 (2022-03-15)                  

  - Bug fix: Corrected an issue with the compilation on newest Linux
    platforms

                 Changes in version 0.6.1 (2022-03-10)                  

  - Various documentation updates

                        Changes in version 0.6.0                        

  - First CRAN release