       

           RELEASE HISTORY OF THE "care" PACKAGE


Version 1.1.4:

- added import statement in NAMESPACE file to address warnings in R
  version 3.1.0.
- added example scripts for Efron et al. (2004) diabetes data and 
  Lu et al. (2004) gene expression data.
- now suggests "crossval" package for estimating prediction accuracy.


Version 1.1.3:

- small changes to get rid of warnings in R-devel
- update of dependencies


Version 1.1.2:

- NAMESPACE file added.
- now requires corpcor version 1.6.2.


Version 1.1.1:

- reference to Zuber and Strimmer (2011) added.
- lambda and lambda.var options instead of shrink=TRUE/FALSE
  to follow the conventions in the corpcor package.
- car.models() renamed to slm.models()
- new function make.predlist().


Version 1.1.0:

- depends now on R 2.10.0 and corpcor version 1.6.0
- much faster computation of CAR scores in function carscore()
  due to the use of crossprod.powcor.shrink() in corpcor package
- syntax of carscore() function now the same as the catscore() 
  function from the sda package
- fitlm() renamed to slm()
- slm() is now also much faster due to the use of the 
  crossprod.powcor.shrink() from the corpcor packages 
- new predict.slm() function
- car.models() now also shows the estimated R2 for each model.


Version 1.0:

- Public release on 8 August 2010.

  This package contains functions for estimation of CAR scores, for
  performing variable selection using CAR scores, and for computing
  corresponding regression cofficients.

