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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)


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v 2.8
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ replaced obsolete URLs to JSS papers by respective DOIs
+ fixed some broken URLs and changed URLs from http to https where possible
    changed rstudio.com to posit.co 
+ DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision
+ mention the more refined version of liesInSupport in the vignette 

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v 2.7
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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)

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v 2.6
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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+ removed some outdated references from uni-bayreuth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

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v 2.5
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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:

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v 2.4
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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:


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v 2.3
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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 sas69@cam.ac.uk, 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

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Changes after changes in R , R-forge
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+ 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...



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v 2.2
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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

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v 2.1
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 * 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,

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v 2.0.3
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  * 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)


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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

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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
 

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v 1.8   (starting version to be in line with distr, distrSim, distrTEst)
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* distrDoc packaged to gather documentation for distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst in form of 
  a common vignette