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News: to package distrDoc

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

############## v 2.7 ##############

user-visible CHANGES:

• more precise formulation of how to use calls to q() for RStudio and Jupyter IRKernel (i.e., use q.l)
• switch from SweaveListingUtils to knitr in vignettes
• replaced http://CRAN... by https://CRAN... (also in CITATION and similar files)
• updated address (Oldenburg) in several vignettes

under the hood:

• fixed CITATION issue (raised by K.Hornik,(12.10., 12:26)
• fixed omegahat.net issue (raised by K.Hornik,(24.10.2016, 18:08)

############## v 2.6 ##############

user-visible CHANGES:

• title changed to title style / capitalization
• updated CITATION file
• removed some outdated references from uni-bayreuth
• updated references in vignette distr.Rnw
• mention that pattern substitution can now be switched on and off in all plot functions according to argument withSubst

under the hood

• fixed \VignetteKeyword issue detected as in mail by K. Hornik 2015-02-03
• added svn-properties to distr.Rnw
• enhanced imports in DESCRIPTION by explicating second order imports

############## v 2.5 ##############

user-visible CHANGES:

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS: cleaned DESCRIPTION file except for R itself moved all Depends to Imports in DESCRIPTION file

under the hood: added .Rbuildignore

BUGFIXES:

############## v 2.4 ##############

user-visible CHANGES:

• changed affiliations in vignette
• vignette has shrunken in size from > 5MB to < 3MB

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

under the hood:

• as a reaction to B. Ripley's mail on r-devel, "CRAN package sizes", Feb-14-2011, we introduce .Rbuildignore files
• pkg distrDoc gains a NAMESPACE
• created folder vignettes and moved content of inst/doc/ to it
• removed lazyload tag in DESCRIPTION
• distrDoc no longer uses require() in .onAttach
• added DESCRIPTION tag "ByteCompile" to all our packages
• updating maintainer email address and URL.
• shrinking inst/doc in order to prevent B. Ripley from archiving distrDoc
• tried to get the imports in NAMESPACE files in the right order
• For some strange reason, examle CIex in vignette threw an error; have changed seed; now it works again.
• deleted no longer needed chm folders

BUGFIXES:

############## v 2.3 ##############

under the hood:

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

BUGFIXES:

• changed mail address: triggered by mail by Sven Sewitz [email protected], replaced all dead links to distr.pdf in www files by url to vignette of distrDoc on CRAN; also replaced uni-bayreuth.de mail address by itwm.fraunhofer.de one

Changes after changes in R , R-forge

• cleanup issues:

  -Package: distrDoc Version: 2.2 Flavor: r-devel-linux-ix86 Check: package vignettes ... WARNING *** Weave Errors *** File /home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-devel/Work/PKGS/distrDoc.Rcheck/inst/doc/distr.Rnw : chunk 36 (label=plotex9) Error : '%' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "my Distribution: %"

  => removed tag in distr.Rnw in distrDoc <<cleanup, echo=FALSE>>= unloadNamespace("SweaveListingUtils") @ similarly in newDistributions.Rnw

  => small changes in SweaveListingUtils in order to pass R CMD check again...

############## v 2.2 ##############

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

• removed NAMESPACE - we do not need it so far
• added field "Encoding: latin1" to all DESCRIPTION files in order to avoid problems with e.g. Windows locale when svn replaces $LastChangedDate
• added TOBEDONE (sic!) files for each package (by accident also in trunc; these are empty so far)
• vignette:
  • included svn-multi style files to /inst/doc folders for upload on CRAN

############## v 2.1 ##############

• description of new class "CompoundDistribution"
• use of new helper package SweaveListingUtils
• Rd-style:

• several buglets detected with the fuzzier checking mechanism cf [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25) [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe? , Prof Brian Ripley,

############## v 2.0.3 ##############

• under the hood:
  • enhanced plotting (correct dispatch; opening of new device is controlled by option("newDevice") )
  • after JMC's changes: gone through setIs relations to ensure "correct" inheritance
• moved license to LGPL-3
• typos fixed (Skewness.R, Kurtosis.R) instead of (skewness.R, kurtosis.R)

############## v 2.0
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• description for new classes "UnivarMixingDistribution", "UnivarLebDecDistribution"
• description of new arithmetic Trunc-Min/Maximiz-Huberization methods
• description of new packages distrMod distrTeach

############## v 1.9
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• registration of the vignette with Windows gui according to
  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2007-June/001171.html
• in the R-code of the vignette, made calls to uniroot(), integrate(), optim(ize)() compliant to https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-May/045791.html
• modified example nFoldConvolution.R (taking care of the new generic 'convpow()' in package 'distr' from version 1.9 on
• some linebreaks added to avoid overly long lines
• added chunk \SweaveOpts{keep.source=TRUE} to keep comments and linebreaks in source
• mentioned in package-help: startup messages may now also be suppressed by suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base')
• a lot of demo plots...
• description of how plot may be called

############## v 1.8 (starting version to be in line with distr, distrSim, distrTEst) ##############

• distrDoc packaged to gather documentation for distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst in form of a common vignette

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