1.5.5   * changed "class(obj) == X" to "inherits(obj, X)" or is.data.frame
          for compatibility with R 4.0

1.5.4   * added lm.wfit to NAMESPACE
        * updated class testing in predprob.ideal and checkVotes for
          compatibility with R 4.0
        * spelling fixes in help pages
        * updated URL for dtl files in readKH

1.5.3	* fixed bug in pR2 when missing data is present
	* added error handling when inverting Hessians in hurdle models
	  and zero-inflated count models
	* improved starting values in zero-inflated count models

1.5.2	* fixed bugs in calls to C routines in ideal.R

1.5.1	* AustralianElections includes 2010,2013,2016
	* presidentialElections includes 2016 and 2012 Alabama result
	* Manual updated to reflect changes

1.5.0	* improved truncated normal sampling (15-20% faster)
	* added use.voter option to ideal, implementing approach from
	  Stephen Jessee's 2016 AJPS article. See ?ideal for details.
	* updated author contact information
	* fixed voteview URLs to reflect new site structure
	* fixed other broken URLs
	* CRAN compliance

1.4.9	* fixed bug in AIC correct in Vuong test

1.4.8	* package dependencies handled better
	* slight tweeks to ideal help
	* CRAN compliance
	* addressing memory leak issues revealed by valgrind in ideal's
	  mallocs

1.4.7	* AIC and BIC in Vuong, better description and printing

1.4.6	* compliance with CRAN recss/reqs, vignettes sub-dir
	* better Imports/Depends/Suggests etc
	* dropped redundant "require" in examples etc
	* fixed long-standing buglet in Vuong test, AIC type df adjustment
	  to test statistic
	* use format.pval for pvalues printing in Vuong output to screen

1.4.5	* better compliance with CRAN reccs/reqs, R 3.0.0 etc
	* drop leading zero in version number
	* compress PDFs from vignettes
	* lazy-loading, so um, lazy-load in readKH.r

1.04.4	* presidentialElections includes 2012

1.04.3	* bug in postProcess, not evaluating args in call of ideal object

1.04.2	* minor typo in dropRollCall.Rd

1.04.1	* fixed bug in non-English locales for hurdle/zeroinfl formula
	  processing if second part of formula contained a period.

1.04	* fixed quite serious bug with storing item parameters
	* COPYING file deprecated (?), deleted from repos with r174

1.03.12	* minor bug in tracex with d>1
	* deprecate showAll plotting option in tracex, change to "multi"
	  (default=FALSE)

1.03.11	* small change to documentation for ca2006 (thanks Arthur Aguirre)

1.03.10	* pythag deprecated in Rmath.h, use system hypot instead (3/13/2011)
	* warnings about memory etc only come on with verbose=TRUE (req by
	  Stephen Jessee)

1.03.9	* ideal: small change in partyLoyalty (thanks to Chris Hanretty)
	* ideal: reformat output of ideal to be 3-d arrays
	* ideal: change default prior precision for item parameters to .04
	  (used to be .01)
	* added UKHouseOfCommons data; Example 6.9 in BASS

1.03.8	* added an optional "at" argument to predprob() methods for
	  count data so that the counts at which the probabilities are
	  evaluated can be specified

1.03.7	* small bug in constrain.item (reported by Paul Johnson)
	* change normalization option in ideal to generate posterior means
	  with mean 0, sd 1
	* do normalization over all dimensions
	* typos in documentation for pseudo-R2 (thanks to Henrik P?rn)

1.03.6	* made gam dependency explicit
	* change linear.hypothesis to linearHypothesis

1.03.5	* added AustralianElectionPolling
	* tidy up Rd files for data sets (itemize -> describe)
	* use dQuote in Rd files (or not)
	* update AustralianElections with 2007 results

1.03.4	* added iraqVote
	* updated presidentialElections with 2008 results
	* added nj07
	* added vote92

1.03.3	* improved offset handling in hurdle()/zeroinfl(): offsets in zero
	  model are now allowed and can be different from count model.
	  See ?hurdle/?zeroinfl for details.
	* included error message for negative binomial zero hurdle model
	  with only an intercept as such models are not identified
	* fixed bug in predict() method for "hurdle" object when a Poisson
	  zero hurdle model is employed
	* fixed bug in formula processing of hurdle()/zeroinfl(): formulas
	  of type "y ~ . | . - x1 - x2" were not processed correctly.
	* for weighted hurdle/zeroinfl models the number of observations
	  is now the effective number, i.e., with weights > 0

1.03.2	* fixing .Last.lib problems
	* turned off MDA option in ideal by default, seems broken, needs
	  work

1.03a	* make startvalues in ideal accept names other than xstart
	  (anything unique that starts with x will do)

1.03	* bug in ideal start value argument processing thanks to Bjorn Hoyland

1.02	* added politicalInformation data
	* added MDA option to ideal

1.01	* added EfronMorris data
	* added RockTheVote data

1.00	* updated CITATION and docs to version 1.00 accompanying JSS paper

0.97	* minor changes to print and summary methods for rollcall and ideal objects
	* bugs in ideal (discovered via odd combination of store.item and
	  file)
	* dropRollCallObject makes prettier output, works a little more
	  sanely
	* s109 is now updated to its final status, example points to
	  voteview.com
	* s110 in examples for readKH
	* adding component named "dropInfo" to rollcall objects produced
	  by dropRollCall, per request of Keith Poole (this stores
	  information about which legislators/votes are retained by
	  dropRollCall)
	* added presidentialElections data from Jackman book manuscript
	* bugs in igammaHDR fixed, some typos too

0.96	* Final changes for JSS paper (before release 1.0 accompanying
	  JSS paper).
	* Changed the default formula specification for zero-inflated
	  models. y ~ x now means y ~ x | x and *not* y ~ x | 1 anymore.
	  Thus, the same default formula processing is applied to
	  zero-inflated and hurdle models.
	* Error in normalizeIdeal, found by Jeff Lewis

0.95	* fixed fitted() and predict() methods for "hurdle" and
	  "zeroinfl" for the case when an offset is specified
	  (this had been erroneously ignored previously)

0.94	* added analytical gradients for hurdle() and zeroinfl()
	  (speed-up of factor 5-10)
	* new package "sandwich" (2.1-0) provides estfun() and bread()
	  methods for "hurdle" and "zeroinfl" objects, thus sandwich() and
	  vcovOPG() covariances are available
	* extended/improved countreg vignette
	* fixed Pearson residuals to use correct zero-augmented variance
	* extended predict() methods: type "count" and "zero"
	* added extractAIC() methods

0.93	* improving matching legislator and vote names in constrain
	  functions, in response to sub-optimal behavior reported by Keith
	  Poole

0.92	* minor errors in various functions spotted with
	  stricter code checking in R-devel 2.6
	* unescaped "%" in documentation for s109
	* need negative 1 for negative intercept in another part of
	  predict.ideal (for the case where the researcher did not supply
	  burn-in; 05/15/2007).

0.91	* added Monte Carlo simulation of pi (simpi)

0.90	* version bump as requested by Achim
	* adding pseudo r-squared stuff
	* adding admit data for ordered probit example
	* adding logLik.polr
	* adding hitmiss method

0.76	* offset and weights arguments have been added to
	  zeroinfl() and hurdle()
	* hurdletest() is a new wrapper for linear.hypothesis() from the
	  "car" package to test for the presence of hurdles.
	* A vignette about count data regression in R has been added
	  (which in particular explains the ideas behind zeroinfl() and
	  hurdle()).
	* correcting/improving documentation of ideal re identification
	  and the normalize option
	* added absentee ballot data from Orley Ashenfelter, used in BASS
	* John Fox noted an error in odTest (wrong p-value); fixed.

0.75	* version bump, requested by CRAN maintainers
	* minor typo in help for predict.ideal
	* fixed bugs with interactive() in ideal.r
	* trouble-shooting predict.ideal as per request of Boris Shor
	* bug (?) in predict.ideal; after 0.73 change to negative
	  intercept, need change in predict.ideal.r to match
	* in zeroinfl(): binomial(link = link) is deprecated, use
	  binomial(link = linkstr) instead

0.74	* deprecating meanzero option in ideal, replace with normalize
	* new options for specifying start values in ideal (eigen, random,
	  or user-supplied list); this fixes a bug reported by Boris Shor
	  <boris@bshor.com> when working with large rollcall objects
	* removed bad escape "\," in readKH reported by Kurt Hornick
	  <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
	* dummy entry to force svn commit/update (testing new svn server)

0.73	* added seatsVote class and ca2006 data
	* cleaned up startvalues processing in ideal
	* improved priors in ideal
	* added verbose option to ideal
	* less console output from ideal.c
	* some changes to documentation, e.g., postProcess gets extra
	  references
	* sort output by posterior means of ideal points in summary.ideal
	* improved tracex
	* fixed bug in dropRollCall (was dropping legis.data attributes)
	* fixed bug in partyLoyalty, called by
	  summary.rollcall(...,verbose=TRUE)
	* finally changed ideal model to have a negative intercept;
	  required changes to updatex.c, updatey.c, and xreg.c

0.72	* fixed error in bioChemists data found by Bettina Gr?n
	  <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>, variable kids5 was off by 1 unit, now
	  runs from min of zero (no kids).

0.71	* fixed bug in betaHPD discovered by John Bullock

0.70	* completely rewritten version of hurdle() and zeroinfl():
	  - new formula interface of type y ~ x | z where y ~ x specifies
	  the count model and z the inflation/hurdle regressors.  -
	  re-structured returned value, is now more similar to "glm" objects
	  - extended/enhanced extractor functions

0.62	* plot.ideal.1d: better left plot margin, based on max length of
	  legis.name
	* plot.ideal.2d: inconsistent testing of presence of beta in ideal
	  object when overlaying cutting planes
	* plot.ideal.Rd: more examples (but in \dontrun)
	* tracex: bug for 2d ideal objects
	* tracex: 2d, make legend lines heavier for showAll
	* tracex: for R >= 2.4, change par() to par(no.readonly=TRUE)
	* fixed typo in plot.ideal.Rd

0.61	* fixed bug in summary.ideal found by Keith Poole (8/8/06)
	* documentation of ideal section on Identification changed to
	  reflect presence of postProcess function
	* added summary.rollcall into NAMESPACE per request of Jeff Lewis
	* no nsl function on Windows, changed readKH to simply call
	  readLines with a try-error wrapper per suggestion of XP-user Jeff
	  Lewis
	* processing of dropList improved, per suggestion of Jeff Lewis
	* cosmetic changes to print.summary.rollcall
	* fixed errors caused by removing sysdata.rda; now utility data
	  sets such as stateinfo and partyinfo have to loaded via data() in
	  functions inside readKH subfunctions; again, Jeff Lewis reported
	  error testing readKH function.

0.60	* added postProcess
	* added jitter to plot.predict.ideal
	* changed "start" to "burnin" in many function that handle ideal
	  objects
	* changed checkStart to checkBurnIn in idealHelper.r, returns
	  "keep" (logical vector)
	* improved documentation for plot1d
	* dropped plot1d and plot2d from export in NAMESPACE
	* consolidated some help files, making fewer entries in package
	  index etc
	* checked package with codetools(), cleaned up some redundancies,
	  overwriting of function args inside of functions etc
	* minor stylistic changes to titles and descriptions in help files

0.59	* fixed compiler warning in dtnorm regarding return value
	* fixed compiler warning in IDEAL regarding double printed as int
	* minor documentation fix
	* removed unneeded directories

0.58	* documentaton fixes and cleanups, prompted by Kurt Hornik's check
	  of 0.57 at CRAN
	* fixed errors in rollcall documentation

0.57	* added dtl file support to readKH
	* extensive reliance on match.call(), rather than carrying around
	  copies of objects, many changes to numerous functions
	* dropList introduced, many functions changed; see dropRollCall
	  and dropUnanimous (rollcall objects)
	* added extractRollCallObject (for ideal objects)
	* added computeMargins, for rollcall objects
	* added convertCodes, operates on codes component of roll call
	  object
	* tracex handles 2d traces gracefully
	* added plot.predict.ideal
	* prior precisions in constrain.legis and contstrain.item are .01
	  for unconstrained parameters
	* added s109, dropped s102 as demonstration data, ships with
	  package
	* added vectorRepresentation (rollcall object)

0.56	* changed rollcall class to have legis.data and vote.data data frames
	* amended plotting functions appropriately
	* rollcall objects have party loyalty scores
	* rollcall objects have lopsided data;
	  summary.rollcall/print.summary.rollcall will display
	* ideal saves some barebones summary statistics (posterior means)
	* summary.ideal computes standard deviations
	* summary.ideal/print.summary.ideal displays information on bills
	  that fail to discriminate
	* plot1d (plot method for 1d ideal objects) has option for all
	  legislator names
	* plot2d (plot method for 2d ideal objects) has option to overlay
	  estimated cutting lines
	* added readKH function and supporting data objects in
	  R/sysdata.rda (state.info and party)
	* readKH has extensive checks and debugging of reads from web
	  (thanks to Kurt Kornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>)
	* minor bug fixes in documentation and examples
	* made ideal examples shorter
	* add coda to list of required packages
	* error in negative binomial hurdle model, added theta to
	  coefficients dimnames
	* added TODO file to top-level directory of package
	* fixed bug in print.zeroinfl (thanks to Bettina Gruen
	  <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>)
	* bugs in zeroinfl (Bettina Gruen <gruen@ci.tuwien.ac.at>)
	* corrected spelling of Ginsb*u*rg in sc9497 (Supreme Court sample
	  data)

0.55	* added ideal point estimation (Alex Tahk)
	* added gamma functions for Jackman BASS book

0.54	* fixed errors in documentation for summary.zeroinfl

0.53	* edited documentation for odTest

0.52	* changed print.matrix references to print, since print.matrix
	  deprecated in R > 2.1
	* added ntable from Jim Fearon
	* added betaHPD

0.51	* fixed error in print.summary.zeroinfl (thanks to Dave Atkins;
	  datkins@fuller.edu)

0.5	* initial relase to CRAN
