v1.2.8 >>>> March 19, 2012
  (1) fixed a few warning messages:
#   (a)>>
#* checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
#genNoisyMeanCov: warning in eigen(Sigma.noisy, sym = TRUE): partial
# argument match of 'sym' to 'symmetric'
#
#    (b)>>>
#** running examples for arch 'i386' ... WARNING
#Found the following significant warnings:
#
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
#Deprecated functions may be defunct as soon as of the next release of
#R.
#See ?Deprecated.
#** running examples for arch 'x64' ... WARNING
#Found the following significant warnings:
#
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
# Warning: sd(<matrix>) is deprecated.
#Deprecated functions may be defunct as soon as of the next release of
#R.
#See ?Deprecated.
#

  (2) add 'na.rm=TRUE' to functions 'min', 'max', 'sum', 'mean', 'median', etc.

