News

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News: to package RobLox

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(first two numbers of package versions do not necessarily reflect package-individual development, but rather are chosen for the RobAStXXX family as a whole in order to ease updating "depends" information)

####################################### version 1.2 #######################################

under the hood

• the modifyIC functions gain argument withMakeIC to be consistent with the signature in RobAStBase (the arg is ignored in the RobLox Code)
• The warnings as to moved ICs have been condensed

####################################### version 1.1 #######################################

user-visible CHANGES:

• DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision

under the hood:

• wherever possible also use q.l internally instead of q to provide functionality in IRKernel

####################################### version 1.0 #######################################

user-visible CHANGES:

• title changed to title style / capitalization

####################################### version 0.9 #######################################

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

• cleaned DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE file as to Imports/Depends

under the hood:

• added .Rbuildignore

BUGFIXES

####################################### version 0.8.1 #######################################

• new internal functions due to changes to .C() and .Call() calls

####################################### version 0.8 #######################################

BUG FIX:

• roblox(): if only sd or mean is to be estimated, starting value mean.sd was not; similarly, in case only mean is of interest, robEst had no component est...

  • DESCRIPTION files and package-help files gain a tag SVNRevision to be filled by get[All]RevNr.R from utils in distr

####################################### version 0.7 #######################################

user-visible CHANGES:

• Roblox,colRoblox,rowRoblox gain na.rm argument and consistently fill new slot completecases
• introduction of finite-sample correction
• handle marginal cases n = 1 or 2 as well as eps = 0 and mad = 0
• package Rd-file added

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

• added tests/Examples folder with file RobLox-Ex.Rout.save to have some automatic testing

• added TOBEDONE (sic!) files; in English (for possible collaborators)

• added keyword robust and made some minor corrections ...

• added/updated NEWS files, updated CITATION files using code by A. Zeileis

• Rd-parsing:

  • patch for Brian Ripley's Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?
  • fixed errors / warnings in .Rd files detected by parser 2 (c.f. [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25)

• svn-revision-tags

  • added in all DESCRIPTION files
  • added field "Encoding: latin1" to all DESCRIPTION files because substituting $LastChangedDate by svn would cause problems for packages built under Windows (German) local when checking under Linux.

• removed pdf-file from version control - Rnw-file is sufficient

INTERNALLY:

• gains new slots of kStepEstimator

BUGFIXES:

• corrected small bug in computation of bias in case of TuMad IC ...
• small correction in finiteSampleCorrection ...
• forgot to include correction for 50% or more outliers

####################################### version 0.6.1 #######################################

• bug in computation of as. covariance in roblox corrected.
• bug in rsOptIC corrected.
• introduction of NEWS-file
• update of CITATION-file (based on code provided by A. Zeileis on R help)

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