==== POT: Generalized Pareto Distribution and Peaks Over Threshold ====

Version 1.1-11:
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 - add README

Version 1.1-9/1.1-10:
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 - remove deprecated legacy S constants (DOUBLE_DIGITS, DOUBLE_EPS)
 in C files (to DBL_MANT_DIG, DBL_EPSILON resp.).
 - change url/year in the vignette


Version 1.1-8:
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NEW FEATURES  
  - change argument names 'fitted' to 'object' to avoid clashes with stats::fitted()
  - change variable name in examples to avoid clashes with stats::fitted(), base::log(),...
  - add a man page for the package
BUG FIX
  - Fix an error in convassess() : previous output of convassess()'s examples was
> convassess(log)
    Error in sample.int(length(x), size, replace, prob) :
     invalid 'size' argument
    Calls: convassess -> convassess.bvpot -> sample -> sample.int
  
Version 1.1-7:
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NOTE FIXES
  - Fix a NOTE on registering native routines by 
  registering C functions as POT_do_<func>
  - Fix issues in specdens plot with failure (length > 1 in coercion to logical)
  
Version 1.1-6:
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BUG FIXES
  - Fix wrong usage of return in the following R files:
./POT/R/bvpot-fitBvGPD.R : 254         return
./POT/R/mcpot-fitMcGPD.R : 220         return
./POT/R/util-GPD-mle.R : 117           return
./POT/R/util-GPD-mle.R : 126             return
./POT/R/util-GPD-mle.R : 134               return
./POT/R/util-GPD-mple.R : 120           return
./POT/R/util-GPD-mple.R : 130             return
./POT/R/uvpot-fitPP.R : 107           return
./POT/R/uvpot-fitPP.R : 117             return
(thanks to Duncan Murdoch)
  - Update/simplify man pages.
  - Add a coef function for "pot" objects.
 
Version 1.1-5:
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  - Rename files in R/ directory.
  - Add a GPL banner on R/C files.

Version 1.1-4:
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  - Update for future CRAN release by Christophe Dutang.
NOTE FIX  
  - Fix issues with S3 class and add defensive programming.

Version 1.1-3:
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BUG FIX
  - Fix a problem detected by AddressSanitizer (thanks to Brian Ripley): 
see https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/src/ts2tsd.c?root=pot&r1=354&r2=493

Version 1.0-7:
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  - Update my address e.g. move to EPFL.
NEW FEATURES  
  - Add the point process fitting procedure.

Version 1.0-6:
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  - Improve the package homepage.
BUG FIX  
  - Fix a bug in the pickdep() function.

Version 1.0-5:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add a ``convassess'' function to assess for convergence of the
    fitted uvpot and bvpot objects.
  - Some minor changes for uvpot fitting process to increase
    robustness.
  - Density plot can return histogram in addition.
  - Add a confint function to provide a generic access for (profile)
    confidence interval computing.

Version 1.0-4:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Link to the url at R-Forge in the Description file.
  - Add lots of new estimators for the univariate GPD.
BUG FIXES  
  - Fix typo and update R vignette.
  - Fix encodings with newer R version.
  - Convert R object to double before calling C code as it may fail.

Version 1.0-3:
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BUG FIX
  - Fix a huge gap within the diplot function. Thanks to Kallen,
    Maarten-Jan.

Version 1.0-2:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add non conditional modeling.
  - Add tsdep.plot function.
  - Fix a bug in gpd.firl function.
  - Improve several functions.

Version 1.0-1:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add tools to assess for asymptotic (in)dependence.

Version 1.0-0:
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NEW FEATURES
  - The fitting codes for Markov chain model is considered stable.
  - Add lots of tools for these Markov chain models.

Version 0.0-9:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Change printing methods.
  - clust.R: the extremal index estimate was buggy !!!
  - plot methods always returns invisibly the return level function.
  - Write a package vignette.

Version 0.0-8:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add a function ``fitbvgpd'' to fit bivariate POT.
  - Add a function ``fitmcgpd'' to fit all exceedances with a first
    order Markov chain.
  - Implement methods for classes "uvpot", "bvpot"  and "mcpot".
  - Update user's guide.
  - Add a function ``simmc'' to simulate first order Markov chains
    with a fixed extreme value dependence.
  - Add a function for bivariate return level plot.
  - Add a the Ferro and Seger's estimator for the extremal index.

Version 0.0-7:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add a function ``clust'' for identify clusters of extreme.
  - Add a function ``ts2tsd'' for a mobile average window in a time
    serie.
  - Add a user's guide.
  - Some minor changes in functions mrlplot, lmomplot, diplot, tcplot.

Version 0.0-6:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add Medians estimator to fitgpd.
  - Add Pickands' estimators to fitgpd.
  - Add (M)inimum (D)ensity (P)ower (D)ivergence estimator
    to fitgpd.
  - Add details to ``rp2prob'' and ``prob2rp'' functions.
  - Changing graphic display in ``plotgpd''.
  - Add warnings for profile confidence interval with
    varying threshold.
  - Passing automatically to ``expected'' information of
    fisher if the expected information matrix of Fisher is
    singular in function ``gpdmle''.  
BUG FIX    
  - Fix a bug in ``gpdmle'' while passing to option obs.fish = FALSE.
      

Version 0.0-5:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Add functions ``rp2prob'' and ``prob2rp''.
  - Allow varying threshold in ``fitgpd'' with method = 'mle'.
  - Return level confidence interval are now defined with
    probability of non exceedance instead of return periods.

Version 0.0-4:
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NEW FEATURES
  - Compute Expected Matrix Information of Fisher in gpdmle.

Version 0.0-3:
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BUG FIX
  - Fix a message bug in gpdpwmb.

Version 0.0-2:
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  - Modifying documentation of function mrlplot.
  - Fix a wrong title and y-label axis in function diplot.
  - Add references in documentation files.
  