NEWS

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PFCI 0.1.1 (2026-06-03)

• Removed install.packages() calls from inst/scripts/ files to comply with CRAN policies.
• Fixed writing path in inst/scripts/run_simulations_full.R to use tempdir() instead of getwd().

PFCI 0.1.0 (2026-06-02)

• Initial CRAN submission.
• Implements the two-stage Penalized Fast Causal Inference (PFCI) algorithm combining graphical lasso screening with FCI orientation.
• Core functions: pfci_fit(), pfci_metrics(), plot_pag(), simulate_pfci_toy(), simulate_with_latent(), metrics_with_latent().
• Accompanies Pal, Ghosh, and Yang (2025), Annals of Applied Statistics, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.00173.