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shieldR 0.6.0

Standardize the named v5 package logo across README, documentation pages and available application headers, with matching light and dark artwork.

Reframe the public model as abstract logistics-chain simulation with changing item specifications.
Rename condition-model functions, observation fields, viability endpoints and workbench labels consistently.
Preserve the simulation equations and random-draw schedules; this is a terminology and interface revision, not a newly calibrated model.
Earlier serialized objects and scripts require explicit migration to the renamed interface.

Introduce the public MIT-licensed academic edition with abstract network stages and stochastic disruption terminology. Public identifiers use stage and disruption; earlier analysis environments require explicit migration.

Add an opt-in degradation-trauma item model with actual servicing events, finite procedural capacity and overall viability at 30 days from damage.
Add aggregate calibration and independent stochastic admission-batch replay.
Preserve legacy execution by default and support separately pinned item comparisons with frozen planning assumptions and observed information.

Add matched initial-observation and updated-observation policy controls.
Separate reactive current-risk planning from the P3 response forecast while retaining the same decision architecture.
Preserve uncontrolled simulation behavior and document the servicing-free endpoint and separate-experiment requirement.

Added explicit replication-seed and bootstrap primitives for external study schedulers while preserving caller RNG state and original numerical methods.
Added a local Shiny scenario workbench with independent and paired designs, diagnostics, validated graph editing, provenance and replayable exports.
PDF exports recover when Cairo is advertised but its runtime cannot load; the portable fallback preserves existing graphics devices.
Expanded the README, reference help and three executable tutorials.
Added a reciprocal analysis/package synchronization contract and local gate.
Expanded package checks to Linux, macOS, Windows and three R release tracks; documentation and coverage artifacts remain within private CI.

Initial private package extraction of the five-leg SHIELD simulation.
Explicit validated scenario inputs and two neutral teaching examples.
Reproducible batch simulation with preserved caller RNG state.
Independent-arm, multi-arm and paired-intervention comparison functions.
Documented endpoint and information-timing assumptions.
Stable log-ratio forecasts for extreme response parameters outside the original study range, with unchanged arithmetic within that range.