Release ergm 4.2.3

[krivit]

Directions for use

1. Create an appropriately named issue (e.g., "Release package version version.").
2. Copy-paste this file into the issue text to provide the checklist functionality.
3. After a commit directly pursuant to a checkbox item, uncheck all checkboxes below it.
4. After any other commit to master branch, uncheck all boxes from the "master branch" section down.
5. After any other commit to *release* branch, uncheck boxes from the "Release branch" section down.
6. Close the issue after all boxes are checked.

master branch

• [x] Issues identified on CRAN check page (typically https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_PKGNAME.html) have all been fixed.
• [x] DESCRIPTION: Package's CRAN dependencies require a recent CRAN version.
• [x] DESCRIPTION: Package's dependencies that are a part of R core (base, datasets, grDevices, methods, splines, stats4, tools, utils, compiler, graphics, grid, parallel, stats, tcltk, translations) do not specify a version.
• [x] DESCRIPTION: Package's dependencies that are usually shipped with R (KernSmooth, Matrix, MASS, class, nnet, spatial, boot, cluster, codetools, foreign, lattice, mgcv, nlme, rpart, survival) do not specify a version unless necessary.
• [x] All tickets associated with the release's milestone have been resolved.
• [x] The stubs file in inst/include/ is up to date if needed.
• [x] man-roxygen/ templates have been synchronised.
• [x] Roxygen has been run on the package since last commit to code, documentation, or DESCRIPTION.
• [x] Relevant tutorials run satisfactorily.
• [x] inst/NEWS.Rd: file is up to date: none of the commits since the last commit to explicitly mention updating the NEWS file are newsworthy.
• [x] LICENSE: license refers to the correct package.
• [x] LICENSE: affiliations are up to date.
• [x] LICENSE: copyright year range is correct.
• [x] All files that should have copyright headers have them. Generally, it never hurts to rerun addcopyheaders to ensure this.
• [x] All GitHub Action R-CMD-check.yaml tests pass.

Release branch

• [x] Release branch has had the latest master merged into it. (git checkout *release*; git merge master)
• [x] DESCRIPTION: There are no Remotes: directives (unless releasing simultaneously).
• [x] DESCRIPTION: Release branch's version number does not have commit number attached to it.
• [x] DESCRIPTION: Date is today.
• [x] CITATION: update_CITATION has been run after installing all the mentioned packages from the release branch.
• [x] All files in the release branch have been committed and pushed to GitHub.
• [x] R-CMD-check.yaml: Flag strict is set for all jobs, and they pass.
• [x] R-CMD-check.yaml: Flag vignettes is set for all jobs, and they pass. (Note: sometimes Windows LaTeX seems to fail.)
• [x] R-CMD-check.yaml: Flag remote is set for at least some jobs, and they pass.
• [x] Reverse dependency checks pass unless breakage known.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: the candidate submission file is from the latest version of the release branch.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes with ENABLE_statnet_TESTS=yes environment variable and --run-donttest.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes with --as-cran option without WARNINGs.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes with --use-valgrind option without memory errors.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: rchk static code analysis passes.
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes on the previous stable release (unless there is a good reason to require the latest R).
• [ ] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes Win-Builder (https://win-builder.r-project.org).
• [x] *pkg*.tar.gz: R CMD check passes with MacOS builder (https://mac.r-project.org/macbuilder/submit.html).

After release

• [ ] Release branch corresponding to the package on CRAN has been tagged with the exact CRAN version and pushed to GitHub.

[krivit]

This is now a bugfix release from the 4.2 branch.

[krivit]

d6ecee703257f3b11ff7ec9d9c1faff08008e623 on CRAN as 4.2.3.