NEWS

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SWORD 0.1.0 (2026-10-29)

• First CRAN release.
• Implements TORS (Tree Oblique for Regression with weighted SVM) and the SWORD random forest of TORS trees.
• C++ coordinate-descent solver (Rcpp) for fast weighted-SVM splits.
• OIW-VI variable importance, partial dependence plots, and interactive tree visualisation via visNetwork.
• Parallel tree fitting via the future/furrr framework (optional).