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Changes in BioC Devel, July 2007

    July 2007

affxparser

      Removed R_affx_cdf_deprecated.cpp, wasn't need and it gave
      errors on R-2.6.0 due to CHAR changes

      Optimized writeCdfHeader() for memory. For a CDF with
      1,200,000+ units just writing the unit names would consume
      1-1.5GB RAM. Now it writes unit names in chunks keeping the
      memory overhead around 100-200MB.  o Made convertCdf() more
      memory efficient.  o BUG FIX: The error message in
      isCelFile() when the file was not found was broken.  o
      Updated to v1.9.2 on BioC devel.
     
      Version: 1.8.1 [2007-07-26] o Now affxparser install on OSX
      with PPC.
     
     
      Version: 1.7.6 [2007-03-28] (never committed until v1.9.2) o
      Modified findCdf() such that it is possible to set an
      alternative function for how CDFs are located.

AnnBuilder

      Yeast ORF IDs were being processed using a logically flawed
      mechanism which sometimes would toss out part of the
      ID. This is now fixed.

      Seth noticed some bad looking bugs, which I have fixed here
      and then tested to make sure that the code was not dependent
      on any of these bugs to run...

AnnotationDbi

      Added lines for new Agilent and GO pkgs.
     
      I believe that this adds the rest of the supported rat,
      mouse and human Agilent packages. Next I will add other
      packages.
     
      I also updated the line/db for the modified GO.sqlite
      db. This GO.sqlite file is now an order of magnitude smaller
      than it was before.

      Added paths for arabidopsis builds.
     
      These appeared to be partially finished. So I
      have added code to finish the sqlite portion.
      Since they are avaialable now, I have added them
      here.

      Removed ALLENTREZID, ENTREZID and ENTREZID2GO maps from GO_DB
      schema. Version bump.

      pkg template names now have the ".DB" suffix instead of just
      "DB"

      A few more edits needed on the GO.DB man pages (only
      strictly required edits for now, these man pages will really
      need to be revisited at some point...)

      started fixing createAnnObjs.YEAST2_DB()

      Finished fixing createAnnObjs.YEAST2_DB(). Version bump.

      added a "Proposal for schema improvements" section

      Fixed createAnnObjs.AG_DB(). Version bump

      added pkg template for KEGG + a new entry in the master
      index file (inst/extdata/ANNDBPKG-INDEX.TXT)

      Added missing packages.
     
      Added many new packages for custom arrays.  Wherever
      possible, these packages have also been labeled for
      manufacturer.

      some rearrangement to the master index file

      Added support for the KEGG_DB schema. Version bump.

      chipName entry not needed for Qiagen chip

      Fixed createAnnObjs.YEAST_DB(). Version bump.

      more polishing to the YEAST_DB section

      createAnnObjs.YEAST_DB() so now the COMMON2SYSTEMATIC map
      uses the right table.

      Fixed the ENZYME and ENZYME2PROBE maps for AG_DB
      schema. Version bump.

      Added missing ACCNUM map for AG_DB schema.

      Added the YEAST2.DB pkg template for YEAST_DB-based pkgs
      (annotations for yeast chips). Version bump

      Added the AG.DB pkg template for AG_DB-based pkgs
      (annotations for Arabidopsis chips). Version bump.

      Changed package names. New files are also rdy.
     
      To coincide with changing all the pkg names, I have also
      pushed over pkgs that *have* the new names in them so that
      things should hopefully line up without incident.
     
      Propagated new db schema names all over the
      place. Reorganized the master index file. Version bump.

      Added support for new RODENTCHIP_DB schema.

      Added the species field for each species-based pkg to the
      master index.

      Added support for new HUMAN_DB and RODENT_DB
      schemas. Version bump.

      Some adjustments to the reverse maps created by
      createAnnObjs.HUMAN_DB() and createAnnObjs.RODENT_DB().

      PFAM and PROSITE maps (IpiAnnDbMap objects) are not
      reversible.
     
      Added man pages to the KEGG.DB template (taken and adapted
      from AnnBuilder).

      Forgot to put the man page for the MAPCOUNTS map in the
      KEGG.DB template (this page is inaccurate and will need to
      be fixed in _all_ templates).

      Forgot to put the man pages for "db_conn" and "db_file" in
      the KEGG.DB template. Fixed example for "db_conn" man page
      in the GO.DB template.

      One more thing to do when we rework our DB schemas.

      Changed expected name of the eg map files.
     
      Just changed the expected name of the eg mapping files to
      match what is being now produced by the pipeline...

arrayQualityMetrics

      Work on NChannelSet, have to fix the problem with default
      "numberofgraphs" and "on" for AffyBatch.

      problem of "con" and "numberofgraphs" fixed

      problem with "man" fixed

      Modifications on the way of splitting the density plots and
      on the option to log transform the data.

      Mix between boxplots and density plots figure numbers and
      legends fixed.

      outfile argument is now named prefix

      subdirectory issues solved, add spatial effect plot for
      AffyBatch

      Add an index in the beginning of the report.  Add the qcstat
      plot from simpleaffy.  Add precisions in the help and the
      vignette.

      Small modifications on the background and foreground
      representations.

      modified the file handling code

beadarray

      getArrayData() can return log-ratios ("M"), average
      log-intensities ("A") or residuals ("residR") or ("residG")
      by changing the which argument.  - plotting functions
      (boxplotBeads, imageplot) able to plot bead residuals,
      log-ratios or ave log-ratios - new function beadResids()
      calculates residuals for each bead on an array.  -
      readIllumina() gives more meaninful warning messages when no
      files are found. - readIlumina(): default textType argument
      changed from ".csv" to ".txt"

      new function readBGX() to read in Illumina's .bgx files for
      expression BeadArrays - fixed typo in readIllumina()

      fixed typo in readBGX.Rd file

      createBeadSummaryData() modified to handle version 2
      BeadChips with 2 strips per array. Human 6 arrays have all
      the beads spread across 2 strips for Human6, rather than
      different beads on each strip as per version 1.  - bug
      fixes: beadResids() and getArrayData() - removed extra
      bracket in boxplotBeads.Rd documentation

      modified C code for findBeadStatus to handle case when mad=0

      normaliseIllumina, offers normalisation for ExpressionSetIllumina
      objects
      - readBeadSummaryData, default options changed to handle
      BeadStudio 3 output (skip=8, added 'quote=""' to read.table
      (default 'quote'
      caused R to hang for some BeadStudio version 3 output))
      sep arguments to be correct for version 3 outputetc.)
      - vsn2 used in normalizeSingleArray, instead of vsn
      - displayTIFFImage and plotCoord removed
      - plotMA and plotXY updated to now check for and exclude missing
      values from plotting
      - createBeadSummaryData now checks that the arrays it combines
      (when 'imagesPerArray=2') are the right ones. New argument
      'what', which allows log-ratios (M), average intensites (A), red
      (R), green (G) or red and green (RG) intensities to be
      summarised. Default 'imagesPerArray' set to 1 instead of 2.
      - getArrayData: typos in error messages fixed. New 'which' option
      'residM'
      top get residuls from log-ratios.
      - readIllumina: default background correction option changed to
      'subtract'
      - imageplot: changed default nrow and ncol to 100 (was 18 and 2
      respectively)
      - beadResids() simplified after changes to getArrayData
      - updated man pages

bgx

      lost serial argument to bgx - not very useful

      Changed IACT and MCSE to muiact and mumcse

      changed a cat() to warning(), renamed basepath to rundir,
      renamed dirname to inputdir, changed default rundir to
      . instead of inside tempdir() to avoid losing valuable runs
      on R quit
     
      cleanup + fixed bug where thought i was using 0-indexed var
      instead of 1-indexed var. all C code is 0-indexed now

      Fixed bug with normgenes parameter to analysis functions

Biobase

      Additional accessors for eSet
     
      * fData, fvarMetadata, fvarLabels access underlying data,
      varMetadata, and varLabels for featureData
     
      * Remove duplicated documentation and code of varMetadata
     
      * Minor tweak to remove "[1]" from eSet 'show'

      Harmonize dimnames of ExpressionSet assayData elements, if
      possible
     
      * 'harmonize' means to ensure that all dimnames are
      consistent with names from phenoData, featureData
     
      * Only possible if elements differ with NULL dimnames, not
      if elements have different dimnames; in this case, signal an
      error about conflicting dimnames

      selectChannels was not copying all appropriate data
     
      Documentation tidy on ExpressionSet

      Fix bug in combine method when no rows are shared
     
      Thanks to Laurent Gautier for the bug report and patch.

      Revised patch on combine data.frame's
     
      Row.names can be stored as integer, but 'merge' reports them
      as character; force to integer if both incoming data frames
      have integer row names.
     
      Added comment to (reverted) switch(), where ordered=,BLAH
      applies identity requirement BLAH both to ordered factors
      and as default (for non-factors).
     
      Revised unit test name to reflect underlying issue.

      More lenient contraints to 'combine' data frames
     
      Change 'identical' to 'all.equal(...,
      check.attributes=FALSE)' so that row names on incoming data
      frames can be stored differently (e.g., as character and
      integer).

      fixups and improvements to peek

biomaRt

      Fixed getFeature function when using MySQL and the query
      contains a chromosome name; Fixed error in Rnw file that was
      caused by renaming of an attribute group in the Ensembl
      database

Biostrings

      Pattern size limit bumped from 10000 to 20000 letters for
      Boyer-Moore. Version bump.

      Added new BStringPartialMatches class. No version bump.

      Added the "lcprefix", "lcsuffix" and "lcsubstr" new generics
      (methods not implemented yet). No version bump.

      Implemented "lcprefix", "lcsuffix" and added
      "pmatchPattern". No version bummp yet.

      Reimplemented "lcprefix" and "lcsuffix" in C (this boosts
      "pmatchPattern").  Version bump.

      use _Biostrings_ prefix instead of Biostrings_ for C visible
      symbols that are not .Call entry points

      started using Biostrings_ prefix for all .Call entry points

      Revisited the match reporting mechanism shared by the
      various matching algos
     
      More refactoring of the match reporting mechanism.

      Added a C routine for normalizing the views of a
      BStringViews object and used it to boost the "masking a
      BString object by content" operation.

      Made matchPattern() and countPattern() work on a
      BStringViews subject.  Added some examples to matchPattern()
      doc. Version bump.

      Got rid of some [TODO]s in the documentation.

      added some examples

      - Replaced internal helper function isLooseNumeric() by
      isNumericOrNAs() with better semantic.

       - Improved the "letter" generic and documented it. 

       - Got rid of some TODOs in BStringViews-constructors.Rd.

BSgenome

      Improved examples in man/BSgenome-class.Rd. Version bump.

      reworked the slots of the "BSgenome" class in order to
      provide more information about the provenance of the genome

       Added missing accessor methods for the "BSgenome"
      class. All BSgenome slots can now be accessed (read only)
      via a dedicated accessor method.  Documented these new
      accessors.

BufferedMatrix

      adjust how ties are handled.

Category

      Deprecate condGeneIdUniverse, add 'cond' arg to
      geneIdUniverse
     
      geneIdUniverse now does the right thing given a result
      object; that is, a conditional gene ID univ. is returned for
      the results from a conditional test. There is an new
      argument, cond, which defaults to TRUE. When called on a
      non-conditional result, cond is ignored.

      giving min.expected=NULL prevents column removal in
      cb_contingency

cghMCR

      na.rm set to TRUE when finding qunatile values for
      overlapping segements

      Bug fix to remove duplicated mcrs in the output.

EBImage

      Added: feature extraction -- hull, texture (Haralick), edge
      features. Corrected: tile rewritten in C, hundreds times
      faster; stackObjects got 'rotate' argument to allow for
      rotational alignment of objects while stacking. Multiple bug
      fixes. New recompiled DLL. Hopefully corrected encoding in
      moments.Rd (that BioC check was complaining about)

      Done extraction of features: moments, hull, Haralick, edge,
      Zernike moments! All new bug fixes.

      optimized Zernike code, 6 times faster on N = 12

      Completed a full set of feature extraction routines (still
      new might be added in the future), for images with zero
      objects matrices are returned instead of NULL, updated man
      pages for feature extraction routines, optimized
      performance. New dll

      R CMD check bug fix (missing link + possibly uninitialized
      value in C -- was Ok)

      minor bug fix in stackObjects: failed if there was 1 single
      object because subsetting generated a vector from a matrix
      that did not have dims

      different bug fixes in feature extraction, small bugs mostly
      concerning images with no objects or 1 object only

      manual 'ext' selection in 'stackObjects', 'combine' on a
      list

      more options in stackObjects: added index to stack only
      selected objects

      updated Windows DLL for the Windows build that takes into
      account all recent changes in the C code

      background reset to black on image 'rotate', need to
      provide mechanism for specifying the background in future

      workaround in man pages for bug in 2.6 rev 42284, result
      should be
      Image:
      > a <- Image(0, c(2,2))
      > class(a+a) [1]
      "array"

      bug fixes in write.image: quality and file names

      small bug fix in 'image' correcting wrong aspect ratio

      Zernike pseudo moments; added Arith methods to comply with
      R26.42246+

exonmap

      added rat database handling code

      added exons.in.range and transcripts.in.range and did a bit
      of code refactoring

      updated plot functions to allow line type to be specified

      better representation for exons with missing data in
      plot.gene

      specify lty for exon edges

explorase

      New Package:

          explore and analyze *omics data with R and GGobi

      Maintainer:

        Michael Lawrence

externalVector

      Untested fixes for NA testing of doubles
     
      When testing whether a double value is NA, use ISNA()
      instead of equality testing against NA_REAL. At least on
      some platforms, the equality test will not work. This is
      only an issue for doubles.

flowCore

      Modified filter constructors to accept parentId.

      added a slightly friendlier error message

flowUtils

      Extract parentId's from gatingML gates and store them in
      parentId of filter objects.

      Added a resolveParents function that combines related
      (parent-child) gates for a given list of gates.

      added compensation examples as a prelude to implementation
      of code to read them

      a start on parsing compensation ML

flowViz

      I copied the code for drawing rectangleGate and adapted it
      to polytopeGate.

genefilter

      Fixed bug in rowpAUCs that lead to subtle inaccuracies of
      the pAUCs

      fixed a bug that was triggered on 64 bit machines

GeneMeta

      updated the data set, fixed a few bugs in man pages and
      removed/updated code

      Require R 2.5.0 and recent version of Biobase

geneplotter

      Fixed a bug with 'xlim', 'ylim' in smoothScatter: they are
      now also propagated to the 'image' function

GeneticsBase

      (1) added Armitage.R and Armitage.Rd to test linear trend;
      included the phrase 'Armitage.R' to the file 'DESCRIPTION';
      added function names 'Armitage', 'Armitage.default',
      'ArmitageTest', 'genotypeCoding', 'genotypeCoding.default'
      to the file 'NAM ESPACE'. 

      (2) fixed two bugs in 'convert.cpp' which caused error and
      warning messages when using Rdev to compile GeneticsBase.
      The first bug is the unused variable 'maxlen'. The second
      bug is caused by recent changes in R related to CHARSXPs.

GGtools

      plot_EvG modified to have better x axis

GlobalAncova

      fixed bug in plot functions

graph

      put in some code for leaves etc

      did the inEdges thing

GSEABase

      more shell-like runfile.sh in unit test

      Facilitate use
     
      * setName, setIdentifier no longer required; use NA as
      * default NullCollection rather than AdHocCollection

      Correctly copy setName, rather than setIdentifier, when
      duplicating object

      Add GOCollection functionality

      - GeneSet(GOCollection(ids, evidenceCode=codes)) consults GO
      for appropriate EntrezIds
     
      - Also bug fixes in mapIdentifiers

      toBroadSet bug fixes
      - Insist on BroadCollection
      - use accessor for BroadCollection
      - use con=stdout() as default connection

      Bug fixes
     
      - GOCollection error message
     
      - GeneColorSet construtor guessing phenotypes better
     
      - GeneSet show method

      Added vignette sketch
     
      - Documentation tidy (incomplete) on GOCollection

      Quieten mapIdentifiers, geneIdType<-
     
      * added verbose option
     
      Additional cleanup
     
      * use "*.db" for AnnotationDbi packages

      * setIdentifier=.uniqueIdentifier() as default for
            constructors

      Generalize accessor construction methods to accept 'where'

hopatch

      modified functions to be less verbose, and modified silcheck
      and msscheck to have more similar arguments

limma

      22 July 2007: limma 2.11.9
     
      - improvements to the numeric computations of
      dnormexp.saddle(), which is used by
      backgroundCorrect(method="normexp")

      - new function normexp.m2loglik.saddle(), which is the same
      as normexp.m2loglik() but using the saddle-point
      approximation.  - normexp.fit() has a new argument 'methods'
      - default for n.pts in normexp.fit() changed to NULL,
      meaning use all the points. The rule used to choose the
      quantiles if n.pts is improved to give more nearly unbiased
      parameter estimators.
     
      9 July 2007: limma 2.11.8
     
      - contrasts.fit() now warns if row names of contrast matrix
      don't match column names of contrasts.

      - plotMA3by2 has a new argument 'device' to specify the
      graphic format.

logicFS

      Added new importance measures.  Changed logic.fs to logicFS,
      and logic.vim to vim.logicFS.  New vignette will follow
      after another major update.

lumi

      Add the correction of the STDEV column values of the
      BeadStudio output file (transfer the standard error of the
      mean as the standard deviation)

maSigPro

      Mfuzz option added to see.genes

matchprobes

       Fixed bug in getProbeDataAffy, and converted 'what' list to
      contain integers and characters instead of 'numeric' and
      'character', which doesn't do anything.

      Add revcompDNA and revcompRNA functions
     
      These are implemented in C and return the reverse complement
      for a given RNA or DNA sequence.

      Add countbases
     
      countbases returns a matrix of base counts and works for
      either DNA or RNA based on the 'dna' argument.

oligo

      adding predicted accuracy to crlmm

      controlling memory usage

oneChannelGUI

      Major restyling of oneChannelGUI:

      Reorganization of functions in the available menus.  Loading
      of exon .CEL files, via APT tools, is now free of bugs.
      DABG p-value calculation is now possible via APT tools.
      MiDAS alternative splicing p-value calculation and filtering
      are now free of bugs.

      Loading of GEO Matrix Series files is now possible.
      RanKProd methods were graphically interfaced.  Adding
      annotation for gene-level core exon data, this will remain
      until Bioconductor annotation libs willbe available Major
      revision of oneChannelGUI vignette, an annotaiton vignette
      was added

      Massive error polishing. Vignette update.

      Updating vignette.

      Improving error messages Fixing some bugs in the
      classification and filtering menu

      Exon data analysis: Splice Index is now calculated using APT
      tools together with MiDAS p-values, since it very efficient.
      Rank product method (RankProd package) was adapted for the
      identification of alternative splicing events.  Filters
      based on MiDAS and rank product methods were implemented to
      allow the selection of top ranking alterna tive splicing
      events.  Adding two modules for metha analysis: merging up
      to 3 data set to the data loaden on oneChannelGUI in
      NormalizedAffyData evaluation of the itegrative correletion
      coefficient as implemented in metaArray package.

pcot2

      Fix type errors in the mannul files

pdInfoBuilder

      Check for valid paths at start of makePdInfoPackage

      Rework runfile.sh for more shell-like script

      minor bugfix in makePdInfoPackage-methods, createPackage
      call used ... inappropriately

      minor change to add biocViews as a constant in template
      DESCRIPTION. should propagate from seed but didn't see
      immediately how to do that

      minor failure in size:k:enz string construction fixed

      took out Rdev as default R command, replaced with R

      Adding prototype for SNP6 platform

ppiStats

      I have fixed a bug in the code...should not be dividing by 2

      I have modified genBPGraph either to return a directed or
      undirected graph now

prada

      fixed bug in batch import of multiple FCS files

      fixed bug in subsetting of cytoSets

preprocessCore

      fix very minor ties issue. Also note that current functions
      do not handle matrices with NA values (to be fixed in the
      future)

      a little more code cleaning

      normalize.quantiles.determine.target()/normalize.quantiles.using.target()
      now handle NA values. Also how the quantiles are estimated
      when data is missing or target length differs from matrix
      dimensions has been altered.

puma

      DEResult - new class. Using for results of a differential
      expression analysis. Has methods show, statistic, FC,
      statisticDescription, DEMethod, pLikeValues, topGenes,
      topGeneIDs, numberOfProbesets, numberOfGenes, numberOfContrasts
      and write.reslts.
      mgmos, mmgmos, justmgMOS and just mmgMOS - bugfix and changed
      defaults. Will now create an exprReslt object. gsnorm parameter
      now has median as default, i.e. median-scaling normalisation will
      be applied. Use none to specify no normalisation.
      mmgmos - new input parameter. New input parameter addConstant is
      an experimental feature. Using the default value gives identical
      results to previous version of mmgmos.
      pumaDE - changed return value. Now returns an object of class
      DEResult
      calculateLimma - changed return value. Now returns an object of
      class DEResult
      calculateFC - new function. Calculates differentially expressed
      genes using fold change.
      calculateTtest - new function. Calculates differentially
      expressed genes using standard t-tests.
      calcAUC - new function. Calculates area under an ROC curve
      numFP - new function. Calculates number of false positives for a
      given proportion of true positives
      removeUninformativeFactors - new function. Remove uninformative
      factors from the phenotype data of an ExpressionSet.
      createDesignMatrix - various changes. Now removes uninformative
      factors, ensures there is at least one factor. Can now handle
      ExpressionSetIllumina objects.
      createContrastMatrix - various changes. Now removes uninformative
      factors. Can now handle ExpressionSetIllumina objects. Now also
      creates X_vs_other contrasts for factors with 3 or more levels,
      in addition to previous contrasts created.
      pumaPlots - bugfix. Replaced die() with stop()
      plotROC - new arguments. includedProbesets, yaxisStat, xaxisStat,
      downsampling, showLegend, showAUC
      plot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCARes -
      newplot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCARes - newplmb - various
      changes. New parameter cl for a snow package cluster object. Can
      now handle ExpressionSetIllumina objects. No longer relies on
      se.exprs method. Noplot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCARes -
      newplot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCARes - newplot.pumaPCAR
      Ensures there is at least one factor.
      pumaPCARes - removed plot method. This is now handled by
      plot.pumaPCARes
      zzz.R - change to library.dynam call. zzz.R - change to
      library.dynam call. zzz.R - change to library.dynam call. zzz.R -
      change to library.dynam call. zzz.R - change to library.dynam
      call. zzz.R - change to library.dynam call. zzz.R - change to
      library.dynam call. zzz.R -ameter sorted to indicate whether
      results returned should be sorted by PPLR or not. Also now
      calculates means of different conditions rather than sums, to
      account for unbalanced natures of 1 vs others contrasts.
      Vignette updated to use DEResult class and methods, and includes
      details of 1 vs others contrasts.

quantsmooth

      Added quantsmooth.seg for analysis of long sequences

RDocBook

      New Package:

          Some simple docbook support, principally in Xweave

      Maintainer:

           Vince Carey

Ringo

      added a script for visualizing enrichment-transcript
      relations as a graph using Rgraphviz and pointed to that
      script in man pages

      added one new visualization type (plus one minor variation
      thereof) for chipAlongChrom

      added a small convenience script for generating a targets
      text file from the file SampleKey.txt provided by NimbleGen

Rintact

      * change the structure of interactors matrix: remove column
      "IntAct ID" and use "IntAct ID" as row names

      * use "IntAct ID" to reference interactors in the
      interaction (or complex) list; "UniProt ID" is used
      previously.

      * improve the extraction of "IntAct ID": only consider
      "secondaryRef" element before, now consider "primaryRef" as
      well

      improve the show method

      I have added a vignette which will double for the supp mat
      of the paper.

      I have updated the SuppMat.Rnw file

      I have made some minor modifications to the code as well as
      the beginnings of a new function

      I have written a new function to take XML files and generate
      graph objects

      I have fixed a bug in the vignette

      I have updated the parser and added a new function

      I have fixed a bug in list2Matrix

      I have updated the package so that intactGraph and
      intachHyperGraph are superclasses to graphNEL and hypergraph

      I have updated the parser functions

Refdb

      New Package:

          A package for refdb-based bibliography management

      Maintainer:

          Vince Carey

ScISI

      I have moved list2Matrix to Rintact and changed the
      Namespace

siggenes

      Added findDelta, a function for computing the number of
      genes called differentially expressed for a given FDR, and
      vice versa.

      Freedom for chisqClass and qvalue.cal. Necessary because of
      upcoming changes in package logicFS.

      Now a better version of the fold change is available (see
      use.dm). However, old version is still default.
     
SMAP

      New Package:

         Functions and classes for DNA copy number profiling of
             array-CGH data

      Maintainer:

         Robin Andersson

SNPchip

      deleted a few commented lines in AllClasses.R

      removed fData and fData<- methods as these are now in
      Biobase. allowed x.axis to be suppressed by argument xaxt=n
      in plotSnp

      removed fData help file

      changed generic for plotSnp

      removed generic definitions for fData

      corrected unmatched braces in help files chromosome and
      AnnotatedSnpSet-class

      added useLayout argument to plotSnp

      added two arguments to plotCytoband: outer and cytobandAxis

      move packages in Depends to Suggests, updated show methods

      changed copyNumber method for SnpQSets to
      calculateCopyNumber
     
tilingArray

      applied a bugfix patch from James Bullard

vbmp

      New Package:

          Variational Bayesian Multinomial Probit Regression with
              Gaussian Process Priors. (Neural Computation 18,
              1790-1817 (2006))

      Maintainer:

          Nicola Lama

vsn

      much improved vignette "incremental.Rnw"

      some updates to the write up

      Now the optimisation is done with respect to parameters a,b:
      h(x) = as inh((x+a)/b) instead of h(x) = asinh(a+b*x) as in
      vsn 1.X and 2.X. I hope that this will better the
      performance in cases where the multiplicative error
      dominates over the additive.
     
      Also the vignette "incremental.Rnw" with the likelihood
      combinations is now much more detailed.

      Fixed some bugs and typos so now the package passes R CMD
      check and the vignette looks OK.

      Generalized the vignette to a new and better
      parameterization.

      Oh boy, lot's of changes.  The optimisation is now done for
      the parametrisation f(b)*x+a, and f() can be chosen quite
      freely. Still needs to be tested more.

      added the function scalingFactorTransformation

      The "test" scripts now all work satisfactorily.  Still need
      to update the vignette and convergence2.Rnw

      I have updated the vignette to reflect latest changes

      Updated sagmbSimulateData - is now a bit less extreme.

      Now it passes R CMD check: Fixed man pages to reflect recent
      changes in parameter names and semantics.  Now no longer
      depend on limma (but use RGList via Namespace)

      started adding justvsn method for NChannelSet. Not done
      yet. Hope to continue tonight from home.

      Added a justvsn method for NChannelSet.

xcms

      Increased buffer size to 100000 in findMZBoxes() to handle
      also files with a vast number of peaks

      Fixed bug in MSW.getRidge() to catch empty ridgeLists
      findPeaks.centWave

      - The scale on which the peak was localised is also returned
      - additional logical argument fitgauss, gaussian fits are no
      - longer mandatory

      - Integration method can be choosen: descent on the mexican
      hat filtered data or on the real data. Method 2 is honest,
      while method 1 (default) is more robust to noise .  - runs
      much faster

Created by jmacdon
Last modified 2007-08-11 07:05 PM
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2008-10-22

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