NEWS
distrDoc 2.8.5 (2025-01-14)
under the hood
- converted encoding to UTF-8
- transformed CITATION file to new format, i.e., bibentry() instead of citEntry(),
c(as.person( .... ), as.person( .... ), ...), instead of
as.personList(....)
distrDoc 2.8.4 (2024-10-24)
under the hood
- fixed some (LaTeX-)encoding issue
distrDoc 2.8
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
distrDoc 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)
distrDoc 2.6 (2016-04-24)
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- removed some outdated references from uni-bayreuth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
distrDoc 2.5 (2013-09-13)
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
distrDoc 2.4 (2013-02-07)
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
distrDoc 2.3 (2011-01-20)
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...
distrDoc 2.2 (2009-11-03)
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
distrDoc 2.1 (2009-04-15)
- 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,
distrDoc 2.0.3 (2008-11-29)
- 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)
distrDoc 2.0 (2008-09-15)
- description for new classes "UnivarMixingDistribution",
"UnivarLebDecDistribution"
- description of new arithmetic Trunc-Min/Maximiz-Huberization methods
- description of new packages distrMod distrTeach
distrDoc 1.9 (2007-07-27)
- 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
distrDoc 1.8 (2006-11-23)
- distrDoc packaged to gather documentation for distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst in form of
a common vignette