history {spam} | R Documentation

## Brief Overview of the History

### Description

Brief overview of `spam`s history

### Usage

      spam.history()

### Details

Many years ago, I required sparse matrix algebra capacities in R for my research. The packages available at that time where not necessarily satisfying for my purpose. Hence, I started writing my own functions, somewhat inspired by the package `SparseM`.

Over the years, I decided to write an R package, called `spam`. In mean time, we have tree significant sparse matrix packages posted on CRAN. I believe that all three have their own niche of users.

I believe that `spam` is stable, useful but definitely not fully matured. I appreciate all comments and remarks.

There is no need to maintain here a complete list of changes. Older versions are available on CRAN (>0.11), each coming with a proper history file.

### References

See also a more detailed description at http://www.math.uzh.ch/furrer/software/spam/history.shtml.

### See Also

`todo`.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ## A complete history of changes
    file.show(system.file("NEWS", package = "spam"))
    file.show(system.file("0NEWS", package = "spam"))

    ## End(Not run)

[Package spam version 2.2-2 Index]