1 This version of PsN is tested with perl-5.8.4
2 Depending on your distribution you may have to install the following
8 All available from CPAN ( www.cpan.org )
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13 Changes from 2.1.10 to 2.2.0
17 - Automatic incrementation of directory names are a bit smarter (no
18 more "directory modelfit_dirX is in the way" messages).
20 - Clean is much more stringent and intelligent and now manages to
21 remove entire tool directories if desired.
23 - option list printed from "-h|-?" only shows utility specific options.
25 - Default values configurable on a per utility basis.
27 - Online documentation improved
29 - Parallel run of NONMEM is not aborted as before if a outputfile is
30 not correctly parsed. It is just ignored, as if it had not
31 minimized successfully. (actually it is the output parser that
32 doesn't die, but the effect is the same)
34 - Parallel run is a bit nicer to the system when compiling many
35 NONMEMS. By adding a configurable delay between starts.
37 - Matlab and R scripts for various plots from cdd and bootstrap
38 results are distributed with PsN.
40 - Vast improvments in results presentations from all tools.
42 - Improvements in rerun algoritm with new "min_retries" option.
44 - Output from running utilties are much nicer.
46 - new "-quick_summary" prints minimization message and ofv value for
47 each finished run. As does "-verbose" option which also prints
48 "R:X" for each retrie (X is the retrie number).
50 - new "-summary" options prints diagnostics about the tool run when
51 it is finished. For "execute" the "-summary" option will have the
52 same function as the "sumo" utiltiy as well as some diagnostics.
58 - Cleanup of dubious utility options.
59 - Option help sorted alphabetically.
60 - "flush", "target" removed from model.
61 - "remove_temp_files" removed from modelfit.
63 Changes from 2.1.9 to 2.1.10
66 - The 'picky' option of all utilities now triggers on
67 COVARIANCE STEP ABORTED and
68 PROGRAM TERMINATED BY OBJ
70 Changes from 2.1.8 to 2.1.9
73 - Nordugrid support reintroduced (but will probably not be developed further)
74 - Sumo now supports multiple problems and subproblems.
75 - Sumo has new option "precision" which control the number of digits
76 to present estimates with.
77 - An extra 'short' logfile is output from the scm with the most important
81 - Bootstrap option "stratify_on" doesn't work with columns defined in
82 extra data files given with "extra_data" option. Not Fixed.
83 - Resumes of scm's with extra_data_files is now possible. Still some
84 problems with scm's where search_direction=both.
85 - LSF options was not communicated properly between tools and subtools
86 so submission of bootstraps, llp, cdd and scm did not work. Fixed.
87 - Default values for LSF can now be configured in psn.conf.
88 - Print order of modelfiles places $MIX before $PRED. Fixed.
89 - extra_files option was broken. Fixed.
92 - Tool will always fork subtools, this will save memory in the scm (and
93 other recursive tools).
94 - Common options need only be specified once. In one of three categories:
95 model_options, tool_options, script_options.
96 - models can now be created with "reference" objects. This solved the
98 - Added function to model that cleans extra data code.
100 Changes from 2.1.7 to 2.1.8
103 - Rudimentary support for execution on Platform LSF grid systems is now
104 included. The following extra attributes are available to all tools
105 for controlling the execution:
108 lsf_queue - Use this queue on the grid
109 lsf_options - General options for the grid queuing system.
110 lsf_project_name - Optional. May be used by the grid system
111 administrator to register control project
113 lsf_job_name - Optional. May be used by a grid system
114 administrator to control multiple runs on a
117 - All tools now have a raw_results file holding the diagnotics and
118 parameter estimates for each NONMEM run.
119 - All tools now handles model files containing one $PROBLEM and no
121 - The Bootstrap and CDD routines now create separate files holding
122 information about which individuals that were included/excluded
123 in/from each created data set.
124 - The Bootstrap results file now has warnings section to better
125 display which runs that were used for result calculations and which
127 - PsN now tries to read psn.conf from the users home directory. (Will
128 require some extra documentation).
129 - Optimized modelfit thread operation by removing Storable::Store.
130 - The clean options has four levels of operation.
132 0 - No cleaning at all.
133 1 - Clean more, but make sure resumes work (this is default).
134 2 - Clean more, but make sure summarize work.
135 3 - Clean everything, keeping only results and logs.
137 - Some attributes and accessors of the PsN-Core class 'output' have
138 had their names changed to make it more clear what their purposes
140 termination is now called minimization_successful
141 termination_message is now called minimization_message
142 covstep_termination is now called covariance_step_successful
144 these attributes are new:
146 covariance_step_warnings (boolean; 0 or 1)
147 estimate_near_boundary (boolean; 0 or 1)
149 The attribute which was previously called termination could have the
150 values 0, 0.5 and 1 for 'minimization terminates', 'minimization
151 successful but warnings or errors were printed from the covariance
152 step' and finally 'minimization successful'. The new attribute
153 'minimization_successful' can only take the values 0 and 1 and the
154 new attribute covariance_step_warnings now takes the value 1 when
155 covariance step warnings were found. Checks are also perfomed to
156 test whether the estimates are close to any boundary.
157 - Html documents is now generated from command line help text.
158 which ensures that they are consistent and up to date.
159 - Personal configuration file now available under Unix like OS:s
162 - Options specific to modelfiles were ignored in some Utilties.
163 - Gradients now output in windows. Just like with nmfe.
164 - Bootstrap now consumes considerably less memory.
165 - Removed unused/obsolete "resume" function from modelfit.
166 - Sorted method entries in modelfit diagram.
167 - Fixed bugs in parsing of OFV and eigenvalues.
169 Changes from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7
172 - "clean" and "compress" options now work under Windows.
173 - SCM now handles crashed runs appropriately.
174 - The ofv_forward, ofv_backward, p_forward and p_backward options of
175 scm now works as they should.
178 - SCM improvements. The final model is now available in the
179 first-level scm directory of each step.
180 - The Utilties -help option is improved. You can now give a list of
181 options to -help for specific documentation of those options, like
184 $ scm -help do_not_drop
186 - Minor changes in how the [nm_version] section in psn.conf i
187 handled. Look in the psn.conf file that is distributed with PsN for
189 - SDE modelfiles are now supported. (see the -sde_records option)
190 - The update_inits method of the model class now accepts an output
192 - Some attributes and accessors of the PsN-Core class 'output' have
193 had their names changed to make it more clear what their purposes
195 finalgrad is now called final_gradient
196 parampath is now called parameter_path
197 gradientpath is now called gradient_path
198 covterm is now called covstep_termination
199 - The Utilties now saves the command line that started it in a file
200 "command.txt" under the corresponding directory.
201 - Added a "silent" option to the Utilties that quenches all output.
202 - "nice" option added to utilties that allows you to set priority in
204 - Rudimentary support for NorduGrid reinstated.
205 - Installer script rewritten. It now supports Perl installations in
206 nonstandard directories. Discrepancies between *nix and MSWin32 is
210 - The code that is autogenerated with "dia2code" is optimized a
211 bit and saves a hash "__valid_parameters" in each object, which
212 allows the constructors to be used as a generic (shallow) copy.
215 - continuous spelled correctly throughout SCM.
218 Changes from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6
221 - Stratify_on bug in bootstrap method fixed.
222 - Data files in directories different from model file are now
224 - Path name handling reimplemented. Relative paths are now handled
226 - Models that generate table files would make PsN complain about
228 - Its now possible to specify multiple output names as a
229 comma-separated list to execute.
230 - The scm can now go backwards.
231 - Handling of table files now responds to the
232 "ignore_missing_output_files" flag.
233 - nmtran error messages was lost in Windows 2K. Execution of nmtran
234 is more plattform independent now. It uses a temporary file, but
235 it is never bigger than the nmtran messages.
236 - Fixed a bug that limited choice of compiler under unix.
237 - Typo in scm utility fixed. (included_relations in backwards step).
240 - Added support for "$NONPARAMETRIC" record in model files.
241 - A few improved error messages related to parsing of model files.
242 - The SCM config file now features sections for parameter bounds and
246 - psn.conf settings are now available as global variables. psn.conf