prepare CRAN submission for v2.7.0

Author: jgabry

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: loo
 Type: Package
 Title: Efficient Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation and WAIC for Bayesian Models
-Version: 2.6.0.9000
-Date: 2023-03-30
+Version: 2.7.0
+Date: 2024-02-24
 Authors@R: c(person("Aki", "Vehtari", email = "Aki.Vehtari@aalto.fi", role = c("aut")),
              person("Jonah", "Gabry", email = "jsg2201@columbia.edu", role = c("cre", "aut")),
              person("Mans", "Magnusson", role = c("aut")),

NEWS.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# loo 2.6.0.9000
+# loo 2.7.0
 
 ### Major changes
 
-* Use of new sample size specific diagnostic threshold for Pareto `k`. The pre-2022 version
+* __New sample size specific diagnostic threshold for Pareto `k`__. The pre-2022 version
 of the [PSIS paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02646) recommended diagnostic
 thresholds of 
 `k < 0.5 "good"`, `0.5 <= k < 0.7 "ok"`, 
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ default 4000 posterior draws, the `0.7` threshold will be roughly the same, but
 there will be fewer warnings as there will be no diagnostic message for `0.5 <=
 k < 0.7`. Those who use smaller sample sizes may see diagnostic messages with a
 threshold less than `0.7`, and they can simply increase the sample size to about
-`2200` to get the threshold to `0.7`.
+`2200` to get the threshold to `0.7`. 
 
-* There are no more warnings if the `r_eff` argument is not provided, and the
+* __No more warnings if the `r_eff` argument is not provided__, and the
 default is now `r_eff = 1`. The summary print output showing MCSE and ESS now
 shows diagnostic information on the range of `r_eff`. The change was made to
 reduce unnecessary warnings. The use of `r_eff` does not change the expected
@@ -35,8 +35,25 @@ only when MCSE and ESS values are shown.
 
 ### Other changes
 
-* `E_loo` now allows `type="sd"`. 
-* Fix bug in `E_loo` when `type=variance`. 
+* Make Pareto `k` Inf if it is NA by @topipa in #224
+* Fix bug in `E_loo()` when type is variance by @jgabry in #226
+* `E_loo()` now allows `type="sd"` by @jgabry in #226
+* update array syntax in vignettes by @jgabry in #229
+* Fix unbalanced knitr backticks by @jgabry in #232
+* include cc-by 4.0 license for documentation  by @jgabry in #216
+* Add order statistic warning by @yannmclatchie in #230
+* `pointwise()` convenience function for extracting pointwise estimates by @jgabry in #241
+* use new `k` threshold by @avehtari in #235
+* simplify `mcse_elpd` using log-normal approximation by @avehtari in #246
+* show NA for `n_eff/ESS` if `k > k_threshold` by @avehtari in #248
+* improved `E_loo()` Pareto-k diagnostics by @avehtari in #247
+* Doc improvement in `loo_subsample.R` by @avehtari in #238
+* Fix typo and deprecations in LFO vignette by @jgabry in #244
+* Register internal S3 methods by @jgabry in #239
+* Avoid R cmd check NOTEs about some internal functions by @jgabry in #240
+* fix R cmd check note due to importance_sampling roxygen template by @jgabry in #233
+* fix R cmd check notes by @jgabry in #242
+
 
 
 # loo 2.6.0