
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.8.1
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	o improve vignette


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.7
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	o include splines in foreach .packages

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.6
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	o compatibility with tximport v1.3.5


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.5
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	o Decrease computing time of effective sample size with ESS() by additional ~10x with sparse solver
	o  fix margins for plotPercentBars()
	o Fix bug for getVarianceComponents() when correlated continous variables are included
	o compatibility with ggplot2 2.2.0
		o center plot titles 
		o fix order of bars in plotPercentBars()
		o legend background to transparent
		o set text to be black
	o include lme4 in foreach .packages
	o change residuals color to not be transparent
	o add CITATION information 
	o plotCorrMatrix now shows dendrogram by default 
	o Estimate run time for fitExtractVarPartModel() / fitVarPartModel()
	o improve warnings for plotPercentBar()
	o improve warnings for plotCorrStructure()
	o define ylab for plotVarPart()
	- add as.matrix.varPartResults() (hidden)
	- define isVaryingCoefficientModel() (hidden)	     

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.11
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	o in canCorPairs() and other functions, convert formula with as.formula()
	o improve error messages for canCorPairs()


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.10
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	o Add plotStratify()
	o Update documentation

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.8
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	o Add additional examples to vignette
	o show projected memory usage of fitVarPartModel()

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.7
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	o fitVarPartModel warns if names in exprObj and data are not identical
	o residuals() and other functions deal with missing values properly

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.6
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	o Small changes to vignette

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.5
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	o Fix Bioconductor error

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.4
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	o Fix typos

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.3
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	o Improve documentation

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.9
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	o Update sortCols to handle Measurement.error
	o change backend package structure
	o set Residuals to be grey by default in plotVarPart() and plotPercentBars()
	o add control = lme4::lmerControl(calc.derivs=FALSE, check.rankX="stop.deficient" )
	o add plotCorrStructure

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.8
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	o Add ESS.R
	o Add fitVarTest.R
	o use lmerTest by default
	o fix bug checkModelStatus() for variables with backticks in name

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.7
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	o GPL License

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.6
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	o Move packages from Depends to Imports
	o For clarity, replace = with <- in parts of examples and vignette
	o Stop cluster in examples to solve error on Windows machines

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.5
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	o Stop cluster in vignette to solve error on Windows machines

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.4
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	o Fix Bioconductor check error

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.3
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    o Add details to vignette
	o Fix ggplot2 compatibility issues

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.2
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	o Add details to vignette

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.1
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	o add plotPercentBars() to vizualize variance fractions for a subset of genes
	o add ESS() to compute effective sample	size
	o fix x.labels argument in plotStratifyBy().  Previously, this argument was not used correctly

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0
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	o Release to Bioconductor 3.2

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.9
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	o add legend argument to plotStratifyBy()
	o improve warnings / errors for varying coefficient models
	o allow user to manually adjust cutoff for determining when design matrix is singular
	  - changed default cutoff to 0.999 from 0.99

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.8
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	o improve warnings / errors when design matrix is close to or exactly singular

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.7
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	o added new class varPartResults to store results of fitExtractVarPartModel() and extractVarPart()
	  - the user will not notice any change, only the backend is different
        o Allow computation of adjusted ICC in addition to ICC.
	o add warning when categorical variables are modeled as fixed effects
	o fix computation of variance fractions for varying coefficient models
	o add getVarianceComponents() to return variances from lmer() or lm() model fit
	o showWarnings=FALSE suppresses warning messages
	o add fxn argument to fitVarPartModel to evaluate any function on the model fit

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.6
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	o Update DESCRIPTION information

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.5
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	o residuals deals with missing data gracefully and returns a matrix

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.4
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       o add documentation for example datasets
       o convert calcVarPart() to S4 from S3 function call
       o fix typos in vignette

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.3
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       o fitVarPartModel() and fitExractVarPartModel() use S4 instead of S3 calls 

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.2
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	o rename sort.varParFrac to sortCols
	o support ExpressionSet
	o change options for plotStratifyBy()

# Before Bioconductor submission

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.12
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	o add plotStratifyBy()
	o update documentation

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.11
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	o fix sort to work on correct argument

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.10
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	o fitExtractVarPartModel() and fitVarPartModel() now take subset argument
	o throw warning when no Intercept is specified
	o if using lmer, warning if categorical variable is modeled as fixed effect
	o fixed calcVarPart bug with reporting too few variances for multicategory fixed effects
	o add colinearityScore

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.9
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    o function now use the precision weights when specified
	o remove warning about unspecified weights, when useWeights=TRUE
	o fix issue with sort with only one variable
	o add main argument to plotVarPart

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.8
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        o Bug update to vignette and simulated data

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.7
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	o remove 'variable' from xlab of plotVarPart

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.6
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	o set REML=FALSE to default.  This fixes issues of inaccurate variance estiamtes, and makes lmer() results more concordant with lm() results
	o Fix residuals function when lm or lmer is used
	o fix useWeights argument error for fitExtractVarPartModel()


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.5
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        o plotVarPart() as ylim=c(0,100) as default, and can be changed by user
	o fitExtractVarPartModel() labels rows correctly


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.4
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	o Add sort() for output of extractVarPart() or fitExtractVarPartModel()


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.0.3
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	o add residuals function
	o add fitExtractVarPartModel()
	o foreach loops us iterators


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.99.0
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	o Initial version
