Make various minor metadata updates for 1.4.2.

Author: paciorek

UserManual/NimbleUserManual.pdf

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ bookdown::gitbook:
       before: |
         <img src="./nimble-icon.png"
              width=100>
-        <li><a href="./cha-welcome-nimble.html">NIMBLE User Manual, Version 1.4.1</a></li>
+        <li><a href="./cha-welcome-nimble.html">NIMBLE User Manual, Version 1.4.2</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://github.com/nimble-dev/nimble">NIMBLE Development Team</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://R-nimble.org">https://R-nimble.org</a></li>
       after: |

UserManual/src/_output.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \vspace{0.2in}
 {\large NIMBLE Development Team}\\
 \vspace{0.2in}
-{\large Version 1.4.1}\\
+{\large Version 1.4.2}\\
 \vspace{3in}
 \includegraphics[width=1.5in]{../nimble-icon.png}\\
 {\large

UserManual/src/title.tex

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Render vignette in nimbleQuad repo:
 
 ```
 cd nimbleQuad/vignettes
-quarto render nimbleQuad.qmd --to html
+quarto render Quadrature.qmd --to html
 ```
 
 Copy files to website repo:

packages/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Description: A system for writing hierarchical statistical models largely
     one can use 'NIMBLE' for writing arbitrary other kinds of model-generic
     algorithms as well. A full User Manual is available at <https://r-nimble.org>.
 Version: 1.4.2
-Date: 2026-02-11
+Date: 2026-03-27
 Maintainer: Christopher Paciorek <paciorek@stat.berkeley.edu>
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Perry", "de Valpine", role = "aut"),

packages/nimble/DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 You can install NIMBLE as an R package from CRAN in the usual way.
 
 You can install from the source file using
-   R CMD INSTALL nimble_1.4.1.tar.gz
+   R CMD INSTALL nimble_1.4.2.tar.gz
 or
-  install.packages("nimble_1.4.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
+  install.packages("nimble_1.4.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
 
 You can also install the package directly from the NIMBLE repository 
   install.packages("nimble", repos = "https://r-nimble.org")
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ i.e. not Windows.
     By default, we will use the Eigen distribution included with the package.
 
 We can specify any or all of these with
-  R CMD INSTALL nimble_1.4.1.tar.gz  --configure-args="--enable-dylib=true --with-eigen=/Users/duncan/local"
+  R CMD INSTALL nimble_1.4.2.tar.gz  --configure-args="--enable-dylib=true --with-eigen=/Users/duncan/local"
 or
   install.packages("nimble", configure.args = "--enable-dylib=true --with-eigen=/Users/duncan/local")
 

packages/nimble/INSTALL

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+#              CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.2 (March 2026)
+
+## USER LEVEL CHANGES
+
+- Improve efficiency of `findSamplersOnNodes`, which is used in finding
+samplers assigned to node(s) (PR #1614; thanks to 'hoxo-m').
+
+## DEVELOPER LEVEL CHANGES
+
+- Switch to using `R_getVar` and `R_getVarEx` in place of `Rf_findVar` and
+`Rf_findVarInFrame` in C++ code at request of CRAN (PR #1616).
+
 #              CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.1 (February 2026)
 
 ## USER LEVEL CHANGES