1.4.9	* fixed bug in AIC correct in Vuong test

1.4.8	* package dependencies handled better
	* slight tweeks to ideal help
	* CRAN compliance
	* addressing memory leak issues revealed by valgrind in ideal's mallocs
	
1.4.7	* AIC and BIC in Vuong, better description and printing

1.4.6	* compliance with CRAN recss/reqs, vignettes sub-dir
	* better Imports/Depends/Suggests etc
	* dropped redundant "require" in examples etc
	* fixed long-standing buglet in Vuong test, AIC type df adjustment to test statistic
	* use format.pval for pvalues printing in Vuong output to screen

1.4.5	* better compliance with CRAN reccs/reqs, R 3.0.0 etc
	* drop leading zero in version number
	* compress PDFs from vignettes
	* lazy-loading, so um, lazy-load in readKH.r

1.04.4	* presidentialElections includes 2012

1.04.3	* bug in postProcess, not evaluating args in call of ideal object

1.04.2	* minor typo in dropRollCall.Rd

1.04.1	* fixed bug in non-English locales for hurdle/zeroinfl formula
	  processing if second part of formula contained a period.

1.04	* fixed quite serious bug with storing item parameters
	* COPYING file deprecated (?), deleted from repos with r174

1.03.12	* minor bug in tracex with d>1
	* deprecate showAll plotting option in tracex, change to "multi" (default=FALSE)

1.03.11 * small change to documentation for ca2006 (thanks Arthur Aguirre)

1.03.10	* pythag deprecated in Rmath.h, use system hypot instead (3/13/2011)
	* warnings about memory etc only come on with verbose=TRUE (req by Stephen Jessee)

1.03.9	* ideal: small change in partyLoyalty (thanks to Chris Hanretty)
	* ideal: reformat output of ideal to be 3-d arrays
	* ideal: change default prior precision for item parameters to .04 (used to be .01) 
	* added UKHouseOfCommons data; Example 6.9 in BASS

1.03.8	* added an optional "at" argument to predprob() methods for
	  count data so that the counts at which the probabilities
	  are evaluated can be specified
 
1.03.7	* small bug in constrain.item (reported by Paul Johnson)
	* change normalization option in ideal to generate posterior means with mean 0, sd 1
	* do normalization over all dimensions
	* typos in documentation for pseudo-R2 (thanks to Henrik P?rn)
 
1.03.6	* made gam dependency explicit
	* change linear.hypothesis to linearHypothesis

1.03.5	* added AustralianElectionPolling
	* tidy up Rd files for data sets (itemize -> describe)
	* use dQuote in Rd files (or not)
	* update AustralianElections with 2007 results

1.03.4	* added iraqVote
	* updated presidentialElections with 2008 results
        * added nj07
	* added vote92

1.03.3	* improved offset handling in hurdle()/zeroinfl(): offsets in zero
	  model are now allowed and can be different from count model.
	  See ?hurdle/?zeroinfl for details.
	* included error message for negative binomial zero hurdle model with
	  only an intercept as such models are not identified
	* fixed bug in predict() method for "hurdle" object when a Poisson
	  zero hurdle model is employed
        * fixed bug in formula processing of hurdle()/zeroinfl(): formulas
	  of type "y ~ . | . - x1 - x2" were not processed correctly.
	* for weighted hurdle/zeroinfl models the number of observations is
	  now the effective number, i.e., with weights > 0

1.03.2	* fixing .Last.lib problems
	* turned off MDA option in ideal by default, seems broken, needs work

1.03a	* make startvalues in ideal accept names other than xstart (anything unique that starts with x will do)

1.03 * bug in ideal start value argument processing thanks to Bjorn Hoyland

1.02 * added politicalInformation data
     * added MDA option to ideal

1.01 * added EfronMorris data
     * added RockTheVote data
 
1.00 * updated CITATION and docs to version 1.00 accompanying JSS paper

0.97 * minor changes to print and summary methods for rollcall and ideal objects
     * bugs in ideal (discovered via odd combination of store.item and file) 
     * dropRollCallObject makes prettier output, works a little more sanely
     * s109 is now updated to its final status, example points to voteview.com
     * s110 in examples for readKH
     * adding component named "dropInfo" to rollcall objects produced by
       dropRollCall, per request of Keith Poole (this stores information about
       which legislators/votes are retained by dropRollCall)
     * added presidentialElections data from Jackman book manuscript
     * bugs in igammaHDR fixed, some typos too 

0.96 * Final changes for JSS paper (before release 1.0 accompanying
       JSS paper).
     * Changed the default formula specification for zero-inflated
       models. y ~ x now means y ~ x | x and *not* y ~ x | 1 anymore.
       Thus, the same default formula processing is applied to
       zero-inflated and hurdle models.
     * Error in normalizeIdeal, found by Jeff Lewis

0.95 * fixed fitted() and predict() methods for "hurdle" and
       "zeroinfl" for the case when an offset is specified
       (this had been erroneously ignored previously)

0.94 * added analytical gradients for hurdle() and zeroinfl()
       (speed-up of factor 5-10)
     * new package "sandwich" (2.1-0) provides estfun() and bread()
       methods for "hurdle" and "zeroinfl" objects, thus sandwich()
       and vcovOPG() covariances are available
     * extended/improved countreg vignette
     * fixed Pearson residuals to use correct zero-augmented
       variance
     * extended predict() methods: type "count" and "zero"
     * added extractAIC() methods

0.93 * improving matching legislator and vote names in constrain
       functions, in response to sub-optimal behavior reported by Keith Poole
  
0.92 * minor errors in various functions spotted with
       stricter code checking in R-devel 2.6
     * unescaped "%" in documentation for s109
     * need negative 1 for negative intercept in 
       another part of predict.ideal (for the case where the researcher
       did not supply burn-in; 05/15/2007).

0.91 * added Monte Carlo simulation of pi (simpi)

0.90 * version bump as requested by Achim
     * adding pseudo r-squared stuff
     * adding admit data for ordered probit example
     * adding logLik.polr
     * adding hitmiss method

0.76 * offset and weights arguments have been added to
       zeroinfl() and hurdle()
     * hurdletest() is a new wrapper for linear.hypothesis()
       from the "car" package to test for the presence of
       hurdles.
     * A vignette about count data regression in R has been
       added (which in particular explains the ideas behind
       zeroinfl() and hurdle()).
     * correcting/improving documentation of ideal re identification and the normalize option
     * added absentee ballot data from Orley Ashenfelter, used in
       BASS
       * John Fox noted an error in odTest (wrong p-value); fixed.

0.75 * version bump, requested by CRAN maintainers 
     * minor typo in help for predict.ideal
     * fixed bugs with interactive() in ideal.r
     * trouble-shooting predict.ideal as per request of
       Boris Shor
     * bug (?) in predict.ideal; after 0.73 change to
       negative intercept, need change in predict.ideal.r to match
     * in zeroinfl(): binomial(link = link) is deprecated, use
       binomial(link = linkstr) instead

0.74 * deprecating meanzero option in ideal, replace with normalize
     * new options for specifying start values in ideal (eigen, random, or user-supplied list);
       this fixes a bug reported by Boris Shor <boris@bshor.com> when working with 
       large rollcall objects
     * removed bad escape "\," in readKH 
       reported by Kurt Hornick <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> 
     * dummy entry to force svn commit/update (testing new svn server)

0.73 * added seatsVote class and ca2006 data
     * cleaned up startvalues processing in ideal
     * improved priors in ideal
     * added verbose option to ideal
     * less console output from ideal.c
     * some changes to documentation, e.g., postProcess gets extra references
     * sort output by posterior means of ideal points in summary.ideal
     * improved tracex
     * fixed bug in dropRollCall (was dropping legis.data attributes)
     * fixed bug in partyLoyalty, called by summary.rollcall(...,verbose=TRUE)
     * finally changed ideal model to have a negative intercept; required changes to 
       updatex.c, updatey.c, and xreg.c

0.72 * fixed error in bioChemists data found by Bettina Gr?n
       <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>, variable kids5 was off by 1 unit, now runs
       from min of zero (no kids).

0.71 * fixed bug in betaHPD discovered by John Bullock
    
0.70 * completely rewritten version of hurdle() and zeroinfl():
     	 - new formula interface of type y ~ x | z where y ~ x
     	   specifies the count model and z the inflation/hurdle
     	   regressors.
     	 - re-structured returned value, is now more similar to
     	   "glm" objects
     	 - extended/enhanced extractor functions

0.62 * plot.ideal.1d: better left plot margin, based on max length of
       legis.name
     * plot.ideal.2d: inconsistent testing of presence of beta in ideal object
       when overlaying cutting planes
       * plot.ideal.Rd: more examples (but in \dontrun)
     * tracex: bug for 2d ideal objects
     * tracex: 2d, make legend lines heavier for showAll
     * tracex: for R >= 2.4, change par() to par(no.readonly=TRUE) 
     * fixed typo in plot.ideal.Rd

0.61 * fixed bug in summary.ideal found by Keith Poole (8/8/06)
     * documentation of ideal section on Identification changed
       to reflect presence of postProcess function
     * added summary.rollcall into NAMESPACE per request of Jeff
       Lewis
     * no nsl function on Windows, changed readKH to simply call
       readLines with a try-error wrapper per suggestion of
       XP-user Jeff Lewis
     * processing of dropList improved, per suggestion of Jeff
       Lewis
     * cosmetic changes to print.summary.rollcall
     * fixed errors caused by removing sysdata.rda; now utility
       data sets such as stateinfo and partyinfo have to loaded
       via data() in functions inside readKH subfunctions; again,
       Jeff Lewis reported error testing readKH function. 

0.60 * added postProcess
     * added jitter to plot.predict.ideal
     * changed "start" to "burnin" in many function that handle ideal objects
     * changed checkStart to checkBurnIn in idealHelper.r,
       returns "keep"  (logical vector)
     * improved documentation for plot1d
     * dropped plot1d and plot2d from export in NAMESPACE 
     * consolidated some help files, making fewer entries in
       package index etc
     * checked package with codetools(), cleaned up some
       redundancies, overwriting of function args inside of
       functions etc
     * minor stylistic changes to titles and descriptions in
       help files

0.59 fixed compiler warning in dtnorm regarding return value
     fixed compiler warning in IDEAL regarding double printed as int
     minor documentation fix
     removed unneeded directories

0.58 documentaton fixes and cleanups, prompted by Kurt Hornik's check of 0.57 at CRAN
     fixed errors in rollcall documentation

0.57 added dtl file support to readKH
     extensive reliance on match.call(), rather than carrying around copies of objects, many changes to numerous functions
     dropList introduced, many functions changed; see dropRollCall and dropUnanimous (rollcall objects)
     added extractRollCallObject (for ideal objects)
     added computeMargins, for rollcall objects
     added convertCodes, operates on codes component of roll call object
     tracex handles 2d traces gracefully
     added plot.predict.ideal
     prior precisions in constrain.legis and contstrain.item are .01 for unconstrained parameters
     added s109, dropped s102 as demonstration data, ships with package
     added vectorRepresentation (rollcall object)

0.56 changed rollcall class to have legis.data and vote.data data frames
     amended plotting functions appropriately
     rollcall objects have party loyalty scores
     rollcall objects have lopsided data; summary.rollcall/print.summary.rollcall will display
     ideal saves some barebones summary statistics (posterior means)
     summary.ideal computes standard deviations
     summary.ideal/print.summary.ideal displays information on bills that fail to discriminate 
     plot1d (plot method for 1d ideal objects) has option for all legislator names
     plot2d (plot method for 2d ideal objects) has option to overlay estimated cutting lines
     added readKH function and supporting data objects in R/sysdata.rda (state.info and party)
     readKH has extensive checks and debugging of reads from web (thanks to Kurt Kornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>)
     minor bug fixes in documentation and examples
     made ideal examples shorter
     add coda to list of required packages
     error in negative binomial hurdle model, added theta to coefficients dimnames 
     added TODO file to top-level directory of package
     fixed bug in print.zeroinfl (thanks to Bettina Gr?n <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>)
     bugs in zeroinfl (Bettina Gr?n <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>)
     corrected spelling of Ginsb*u*rg in sc9497 (Supreme Court sample data)

0.55 added ideal point estimation (Alex Tahk)
     added gamma functions for Jackman BASS book

0.54 fixed errors in documentation for summary.zeroinfl

0.53 edited documentation for odTest

0.52 changed print.matrix references to print, since print.matrix
     depreacted in R > 2.1
     added ntable from Jim Fearon
     added betaHPD

0.51 fixed error in print.summary.zeroinfl (thanks to Dave Atkins; 
     datkins@fuller.edu)

0.5  initial relase to CRAN
