NEWS

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spaSim 1.3.1

• Added newly published paper.

spaSim 1.3.0

Development version in Bioconductor 3.18

spaSim 1.1.2

BUG FIXES

• Fixed documentation of argument jitter in TIS() and simulate_background_cells().
• Fixed incorrectly plotted image in README.

spaSim 1.1.1

SIGIFICANT USER CHANGE

• simulate_background_cells() added an option (method = "Even") to simulate evenly spaced background images. This change is accompanied with addition of two parameters, method - to choose the background cell distribution and jitter

• the parameter to simulate evenly spaced background cells. Tutorials and function TIS() were modified accordingly.

spaSim 0.99.5

SIGNIFICANT USER CHANGE

• TIS() only plots one plot when arg plot_image is TRUE.

spaSim 0.99.4

SIGNIFICANT USER CHANGE

• Added an optional parameter plot_image to simulate_background_cells().

spaSim 0.99.3

NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE

spaSim 0.99.2

NEW FEATURES

• Added utils.R file to store internal functions.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

• Updated the main object class from SingleCellExperiment to SpatialExperiment.
• Changed the parameter Phenotype to Cell.Type.

spaSim 0.99.1

NEW FEATURES

• Added parameter validity checks.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

• Improved parameter descriptions.

BUG FIXES

• None

spaSim 0.99.0

NEW FEATURES

• This is the first version of spaSim.