# bpvars 2.0

1. The package includes a vignette!
2. A new truncated normal sampler is used [#42](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/42)

# bpvars 1.0

1. This package is alive! [#1](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/1)
2. The package includes the Gibbs sampler for a Bayesian Hierarchical Panel Vector Autoregression model. [#2](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/2)
3. The package includes labour market dynamic panel data. [#3](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/3)
4. The package includes the forecast method. [#5](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/5)
5. The package includes possibility of conditional forecasting given projected paths of some of the variables.
[#8](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/8)
6. The package includes estimation and forecasting with exogenous variables. [#12](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/12)
7. The package includes forecast error variance decomposition analysis [#14](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/14)
8. The package includes `plot` and `summary` routines [#17](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/17)
9. The package features a hexagonal logo [#26](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/26) with the [code for reproduction](https://github.com/bsvars/hex)
10. The package includes a **pkgdown** website [#26](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/26)
11. The package is featured at [bsvars.org](https://bsvars.org/)
12. Included several simple models like that by Jarociński (2010) and country-specific VARs for dynamic panel data [#34](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/34)
13. Included a model with group-specific prior [#29](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/29)
14. Included functionality for pseudo-out-of-sample forecasting and forecast performance evaluation [#28](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/28)
15. Included missing variable treatment for all models [#36](https://github.com/bsvars/bpvars/issues/36)
