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#  News: to package distrEx
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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 2.9.4
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under the hood:
with the help of K. Hornik identified spurious, platform dependent LF/CR issue
and capsulated calls to infoShow() in Rd files by 
## IGNORE_RDIFF_BEGIN
## IGNORE_RDIFF_END

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v 2.9.3
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under the hood:
+ to comply with _R_USE_STRICT_R_HEADERS_=true, we changed calls to PI to M_PI in GLaw.c


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v 2.9
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user-visible CHANGES:
+  taking up a suggestion by Andreas.Scheidegger@eawag.ch, we introduced new 
   argument propagate.names in our functionals controlling whether names 
   obtained from parameter coordinates should be propagated to return values 
   of specific S4 methods for functionals 
+  to this end there is a new distrExoption propagate.names.functionals 
   used as default in the functionals 
   
under the hood:
+  KolmogorovDist methods gain argument "..." in order to enable them to
   digest argument validity.check in MCEstimator 
+ fixed some broken URLs and changed URLs from http to https where possible
+ changed latin1 to UTF-8 encoding as requested by CRAN since latin1 
  encoding will be deprecated.

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v 2.8
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision
+ the return values of distrExIntegrate and all E()-methods gain an 
  optional attribute "diagnostic" which is filled if argument
  diagnostic is TRUE (the E()-methods whenever they use distrExIntegrate
  in (parts of) their computation.
+ particular functionality to inspect/access this diagnostic
  information through showDiagnostic, getDiagnostic and the S3method 
  for print for class DiagnosticClass 
 
under the hood:
+ moved quantile integration methods for expectation for Weibull and
  Gamma distribution from pkg RobExtremes to distrEx; this is now also used
  for Cauchy distributions  
+ introduce exported helper function .qtlIntegrate  to achieve this
  (is reused in RobExtremes for the GEV methods there)
+ cleaned .Rd file E.Rd: It contained still some references to methods
  for extreme value distributions which are now in RobExtremes
  and some old mail reference peter.ruckdeschel@uni-bayreuth.de
+ DiscreteMVDistribution gains a (matrix valued) slot .FinSupport in analogy to the 
  univariate DiscreteDistribution (idea: coordinatewise checking whether a multivariate 
   observation could, in principle, lie in the support -- the 1st row states
   whether the ith marginal distribution has a finite left endpoint, and the
   2nd row if it is has a finite right endpoint); not yet further used
+ for consistency to the univariate methods, the liesInSupport() method for
  DiscreteMVDistribution gains an argument checkFin, which is not yet used.
+ introduced filter functions to warrant some safety that only those args from
  "..." become arguments of the integrand, of distrExIntegrate, of E(),
   of integrate, of GLIntegrate, of quantiles and IQR, which are within
   the formals of the respective function...
   as a consequence: 
   *   functions with more than one formal argument have to have named
	   arguments, as these are then attached internally by name in wrapper functions;
   CAVEAT: integrands of form function(x, ...) will no longer get their arguments 
       right -- this is intentional to safeguard against passing arguments to the 
	   integrand that it cannot digest;
   *   For a call like E(distr, fun = myfun, ...), it is advisable to do something like 
		
		dotsFun <- .filterFunargs(list(...), myfun)
        funwD <- function(x) do.call(fun,c(list(x), dotsFun))
		dotsInt <- .filterEargs(list(...))
		do.call(E, c(list(object = distr, fun = funwd), dotsInt))
		
		to be on the safe side that both E() and myfun() obtain the correct
		parts of "..."
        
	    Calls with E(distr, fun=myfun, cond = mycond, withCond = TRUE)
		are automatically treated in a way s.t. they do not break existing code,
		i.e., in case of random variables, argument "cond" is suitably attached 
		to argument "x" of the Map of the random variable -- something like c(x,cond)
		
+ .qtlIntegrate now uses smaller values for args subdivisions and order 
   in case partitioning into left/middle/right is used: they are multiplied
   by factors fac.L/fac.R/fac.M according to
         if( .withRightTail &&  .withLeftTail){fac.R <- fac.L <- 0.1; fac.M <- 0.8}
         if( .withRightTail && !.withLeftTail){fac.R <- 0.2; fac.M <- 0.8}
         if(!.withRightTail &&  .withLeftTail){fac.L <- 0.2; fac.M <- 0.8}
         if(!.withRightTail && !.withLeftTail){fac.M <- 1.0}
   => so at order 5000 we come up with orders in L/M/R of 500 / 4000  / 500 
      instead of 5000 / 5000 / 5000	  
+ fixed a bug in .qtlIntegrate: forgot to call funwD (instead of fun) in case useApply = FALSE
+ additional .AW-grid values into sysdata.rda for orders 
      50, 400, 800, 4000, 8000, 40000, 80000, 100000
  as these grid values are needed in the partitioned integration in 
  .qtlIntegrate
+ in addition grid value 100000 so far was not used as it is parsed to 
  .AW.1e5 instead to .AW.100000 
+ code to produce the grid values .AW.xxx in sysdata.rda is now contained
  in distrExIntegrate.R in an if(FALSE) { <block> }
+ new S3 class DiagnosticClass and helper functions .showallNamesDiagnosticList, 
  .reorganizeDiagnosticList to ease inspection of the diagnostic information; 
  exported constant .nmsToGather captures the names of items in diagnostic attributes
  which are "easily" shown (numeric, logical, character)
+ Expectations, .qtlIntegrate and distances based on integration (i.e., TotalVarDist, 
  OAsymTotalVarDist, AsymTotalVarDist, HellingerDist, CvMDist) if (diagnostic==TRUE) 
  return diagnostic attributes of S3 class  "DiagnosticClass"
  
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v 2.7
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ triggered by mail from Peng Rui, larodarchillwind@aliyun.com, implemented 
  Hellinger and TotalVariation distance for DiscreteMVDistributions
+ alias q.l(X) for q(X) to provide functionality in RStudio / Jupyter IRKernel
+ fixed some URLs in https style

under the hood:
+ added more detailed author information in DESCRIPTION 
+ registered native code for GL integration
+ recreated sysdata.rda file with new tables 
  .AW.5000, .AW.10000, .AW.50000, .AW.100000
+ changed defaults in distrExIntegrate / GLIntegrateOrder (with finer grids)

bug fixes:
+ fixed a bug in CvMDist


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v 2.6
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ changed default integration measure from e2 to e1 in CvMdist
+ title changed to title style / capitalization
+ added generating function "EmpiricalMVDistribution" for computing
  empirical distribution of multivariate data
+ removed N. Horbenko from authors in DESCRIPTION; her contribution
  was moved to pkg RobExtremes
  
under the hood:
+ use particular S3-class "moved2RobExtremeClass" for
  former package internal constants EULERMASCHERONICONSTANT and
  APERYCONSTANT
+ 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 and NAMESPACE file as to Imports/Depends

under the hood:
+ use some newly exmported routines which had been internal so far to
  avoid calls by :::
+ added .Rbuildignore

BUGFIXES:

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v 2.4
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ moved functionality for extreme value distribution to package RobExtremes
-> concerns distributions Gumbel, GEVD, GPareto, and Pareto
+ moved functional and estimator kMAD to package RobExtremes

under the hood:
+ added DESCRIPTION tag "ByteCompile" to all our packages
+ updating maintainer email address and URL.
+ added argument no.readonly = TRUE to assignments of form opar <- par()
+ deleted no longer needed chm folders



BUGFIXES:

+ corrected bug in var() (with argument fun in case of symmetry)

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v 2.3
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user-visible CHANGES:

+ new default method for CvMDist (i.e. for mu=e2) instead of numerical 
  integration uses explicit terms => by factor 30 faster!

+ Nataliya produced a C-version of kMad; integrated to distrEx now

+ Generalized Extreme Value Distribution is ported to distrEx

+ Gumbel  in distrEx has different parametrization as GEV with shape = 0

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:

+ found a bug in setMethod("var", signature(x = "UnivariateDistribution")) 
  for spherical symmetric distributions

+ Small bug in Expectation.R was found 

+ Gumbel  in distrEx has different parametrization 
  as GEV with shape = 0

+ fixed several buglets in GEV
   * small error for xi = 0 in Functionals.R and Expecation.R
   * completed unfinished documentation


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v 2.2
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user-visible CHANGES:

+ enhanced E() methods
  * expectation gains ... argument to pass on accuracy arguments

+ enhanced m1df(),m2df() methods
  * m1df, m2df gain ... argument to be able to pass on accuracy arguments to E();
  * m1df, m2df can now digest cond, fun arguments...
  * particular m1df versions (for Binom, Norm, Chisq, Exp, Pois) 
    are used in E(object, [fun, cond, ] low=.., upp=.., ...) calls
+ GPareto 
  * implemented GPareto class (Nataliya) [including functionals)
  * allow for negative shape parameter in generalized Pareto ...

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

+ added tests/Examples folder with file distrEx-Ex.Rout.save to have
  some automatic testing
+ 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)

INTERNALLY:

+ introduced helper function .getIntbounds
+ reorganized help for PrognCondDistribution   
+ functionals in distrEx now make use of this symmetry slot ...
+ catch errors thrown by qgumbel and qpareto1 when args are not in (0,1)
  --> corresp. q-methods now consistently return NaN.
+ m1df,m2df:
  *particular methods for m2df for AbscontDistribution, DiscreteDistribution are no longer necessary.
  *new/revised methods for m1df, m2df for AfflinDistribution  
+ enhanced/corrected methods for Kolmogorov distance
  * when one operand is DiscreteDistribution
  * yet another (speed) improvement --- important for MDE with KolmogorovDist:
    Kolmogorov-dist e1 (discrete) : e2 (ac) is         
        x <- support(e1)
        res <- max(p(e1)(x)-p(e2)(x),p(e2)(x)-p.l(e1)(x))
+ merged Expectation_LebDec.R into Expectation.R 
  according to proposal by Kurt Hornik (different Collation order caused
  problem in English locale)
+ new expectation methods for UnivarMixingDistribution
+ included new methods for E():
  * for GPareto as well as for Gammad 
    -> increase the precision for the numerical calculation of certain integrals; 
       in particular, integrals involving "log" as integrand.
  * Expectation for GPareto now has IQR.fac accuracy set to 
    max(1e4,getdistrExOption("IQR.fac") to enhance accuracy for integration;

BUGFIXES:

+ forgot to commit branches/distr-2.2/pkg/distrEx/man/distrExConstants.Rd
+ forgot some source files (GPD)
+ fixed a buglet in m2df method for LatticeDistribution (a catch for existing fun argument was missing).
+ forgot to set corresponding distrExoptions()-default values for accuracy  
  for m1df, m2df
+ fixed a bug in E-method for AbscontDistribution, function, cond 
+ fix for the bug in distrEx: m2df now only uses mc <- match.call() 
  instead of mc <- match.call(call = sys.call(sys.parent(1)))
 (do not completely understand why: 
  there is method dispatch, though, as in plot(), where sys.call(sys.parent(1)) 
  is needed, but here match.call() does it... )
+ fixed some --hard-to-detect/localize--  bug induced with lazy evaluation:
  Data-Examples in scripts to ROptEst threw errors: reason --- need an
  explicit assignment im ClippedMomemts.R (distrEx) mc$object <- object
  to force evaluation of object (otherwise only transmitted as name...)
+ R CMD check threw an error for distrEx .Rd file distrExConstants.Rd :
  probably because of a multi-line \deqn{}{} expression modified 
+ corrected some bug with match.call() in Var()...
+ forgot to write the expectations of different components into different coordinates 
+ Definition for KolmogorovDist for numeric, UnivariateDistribution 
  by means of ks.test was only oK for AbscontDistributions; changed to
  KolmogorovDist(DiscreteDistribution(e1),e2)
+ fixed errors in expectation methods (with upper & lower bounds) 
  as well as in m1df, m2df methods



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v 2.1
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* 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,

* FUNCTIONALS
--Expectation
  +expectation gains (optional) low and upp arguments; 
   these can be passed through to var, skewness, kurtosis
  +expectation gains explicit arguments to set accuracy locally;
  +also both quantile and scale based methods is used to determine
   a sensible integration range in expectation
--Quantiles:
  -median and IQR are now defined for UnivariateCondDistribution
--general bug fixes:
  -checked and fixed functionals (stirred up by mail by Jay Kerns, gkerns@ysu.edu)
  -bug corrected in E for Hyper (thanks to Jay G. Kerns!) ...
  -corrected small bug in mad, added new implementation for skewness and
   kurtosis for signature "ANY".
  -corrected small bug in skewness for AffLinDistribution.

* DISTRIBUTIONS
  + gains distribution Pareto; ported from pkg actuar by Nataliya Horbenko
   +new slots d,p,q for Gumbel distribution catching errors, vectorization
      and lower.tail, log[.p] argument ...
  + new methods for Gumbel distribution ...

* DISTANCES
  + introduced distance OAsymTotalVarDist (minimal
         asymmetric total variation distance) 
  + introduced new asymmetric total variation distance AsymTotalVarDist
  + TotalVarDist and HellingerDist gain extra arguments
    to better control the integration range and exactness

* NEW FUNCTIONALS
  + m1df for AffLinDistribution
  + Expectation, var, IQR, median, skewness, kurtosis available for Pareto

+... and: had forgotten to document the plot-methods in distrExsome typo's in integration range selection

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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 in Expectation, all the distance functionals 
        (ContaminationSize, HellingerDist,...), m1df,m2df
     + buglet for AffLinDistribution in Skewness
     + corrected small bug in mad, added new implementation for 
       skewness and kurtosis for signature "ANY"
 
  * moved license to LGPL-3
  * new methods for Gumbel distribution ...


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v 2.0 
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* moved teaching illustrations to new package 'distrTeach'

* E methods for class[es] '[AffLin]UnivarLebDecDistribution'

* distance methods for class '[AffLin]UnivarLebDecDistribution'

* CvM distance is implemented

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v 1.9 
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* 'distrEx' now behaves exactly the same as the other members
  of the distrXXX family as to 'distrExOptions()', 'getdistrExOption()'

* substantial contributions by Jay Kerns, gkerns@ysu.edu:
  + skewness & kurtosis are now available as functionals
  + E(), var() return NA in case of T-distribution if not defined

* disclaimer for possible collisions with other definitions of
  kurtosis and skewness

* added note on masking on startup as well as disrExMASK()

* enhanced 'illustrateCLT'
  + plot includes a title
  + for 'DiscreteDistributions' in the "d"-panel, the support is thinned
    out if length too long
  + Komogoroff-distance is printed out
  + 'illustrateCLT' no longer is a generic function but a regular function
  + the plotting feature of 'illustrateCLT' is extracted and has become 
    a generic function 'plotCLT' (now with title and the summands mentioned
    in the header) 
  + there is a TclTk-based demo now (therefore TclTk is a suggested package now)
    replaced recursive summation in illustrate-CLT method by 'convpow'

* new demo 'illustLLN' and function 'illustrateLLN'
  + preset strings similar to those of plot-methods from package 'distr'

* moved some parts from package 'distrEx' to package 'distr' 
   + generating function 'DiscreteDistribution' 
   + univariate methods of 'liesInSupport()' 
   + classes 'DistrList' and 'UnivariateDistrList'
   + generating functions EuclideanSpace() ,Reals(), Naturals() 

* mentioned in package-help: startup messages may now also be suppressed by
  suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base')

* adapted demo() to comply with change in return value of require()
  from R-2.5.0patched on

* formals for slots p,q,d as in package stats to enhance accuracy

    + p(X)(q, [cond,] lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
    + q(X)(p, [cond,] lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
    + d(X)(x, [cond,] log = FALSE)
    
    used wherever possible;
    but backwards compatibility: 
        always checked whether lowert.tail / log / log.p are formals
		
 * some exact formulas for mad, median, and IQR  
 * new method for IQR for DiscreteDistributions taking care that between upper and lower
   quartile there is 50% probability 
 * E-, var-, IQR-, mad-, median-, kurtosis-, skewness- methods 
   for new class union AffLinDistribution

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v 1.8 
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* changed to version counting of the remaining distrXXX packages
* corrected minor error in E() and var() method for Nbinom 
  (thanks to Spencer Graves for drawing our attention to this)
* fixed error in definition of  Hellinger distance (HellingerDist)

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v 0.4-4 
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* dim() method for DiscreteMVDistribution 
* var() + E() overloaded for DExp-Class 
* sd()-method  overwritten for Norm-Class to allow function / condition argument

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v 0.4-3 
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*  Implementation of functionals:
   o evaluation of exact expressions of E (expectation functional) for most specific distributions from stats package
   o var, sd methods for UnivariateDistributions; these include calls like

     N <- Norm()

     var(N,function(t)abs(t)^(1/2))   # calculates Var[|N|^(1/2)] 

     also (factorized) conditional variance is available
   o evaluation of exact expressions of var for most specific distributions from stats package
   o median, IQR, mad methods for UnivariateDistributions
   o for var, sd, median, IQR, mad: all functionality/arguments of stats methods is/are preserved and
            only if first argument / argument x is of class UnivariateDistribution (or descendant) a 
            different method is applied
* Internationalization: use of gettext, gettextf in output
* C-interface .GLaw() to replace respective R-Code in distrExintegrate.R
* PrognCondDistribution, PrognCondition are included as classes and generating functions (incl. show-method); 
* Inclusion of demos (see above)
  + PrognCondDistribution, PrognCondition are included as classes and generating functions (incl. show-method); 
  + illustrateCLT is included and rd-file is done


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v 0.4-2 
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* ContaminationSize, HellingerDist, KolmogorovDist, TotalVarDist now return a list which consists of the corresponding distributions and their distance
* minor changes in m1df and m2df to increase speed of computation
* minor changes in DiscreteMVDistribution to increase speed of computation
* introduction of a new parameter useApply in methods for function E with default value TRUE
