Changes in version 1.32                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Fixed vignette

    o   Added initial support to Generic Arrays

    o   Using BiocGenerics definition of normalize

                        Changes in version 1.24                         

BUG FIXES

    o   Removed dependency on RConverters.h

                        Changes in version 1.22                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Improved results by getProbeInfo();

    o   fitPLM, coefs and resids are now Defunct. Use
	fitProbeLevelModel, coef and residuals respectively. 'coef' and
	'residuals' follow the standards used elsewhere in R;

BUG FIXES

    o   Fixed problem caused by the fact that oligoClasses had its own
	annotation() method when BiocGenerics added a new one;

    o   Several fixes to probe selector, allowing 'target' to be used;

    o   PA Calls didn't know about target;

                        Changes in version 1.20                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   New getProbeInfo() function added, to simplify probe selection
	without using SQL.

    o   New fitProbeLevelModel() function added. It allows probe-level
	models ('plm' and 'medianpolish'), which can be used for QC.

    o   fitPLM, coefs and resids are now Deprecated. Use
	fitProbeLevelModel, coef and residuals respectively. 'coef' and
	'residuals' follow the standards used elsewhere in R.

    o   Now using foreach for parallelization.

BUG FIXES

    o   Addressed issue in which probes without chr info would be
	removed from pmChr, leading to results whose dimensions did not
	match PM matrix (on TilingFeatureSet).

                        Changes in version 1.18                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   pmStrand() now available for Affy-Tiling arrays (by Kristof De
	Beuf);

BUG FIXES

    o   Fixed message method when normalizing with large dataset
	support;

                        Changes in version 1.16                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Using NEWS.Rd;

NEW FEATURES

    o   New summarization methods are available: PLM, PLMr, PLMrr and
	PLMrc. These are implemented in the basicPLM function and also
	available through the summarize() interface (method=c('plm',
	'plmr', 'plmrr', 'plmrc'));

    o   fitPLM(), NUSE() and RLE() are now available;

    o   Presence/Absence calls are available through paCalls();

    o   MAplot method with advanced options;

BUG FIXES

    o   'pm<-', 'mm<-', 'bg<-' now work with ff_matrix replacements;

    o   boxplot() now uses the correct (default) ylim if transfo !=
	log2;

    o   Fixed documentation for hist(), boxplot(), fitPLM();

    o   Fixed image for PLMset on NimbleGen arrays;

                        Changes in version 1.14                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Added support to read gzipped XYS files directly.

    o   Added information for citation.

    o   Added getNetAffx method to retrieve NetAffx annotation for Exon
	ST and Gene ST arrays.

    o   Reading in uncompressed XYS files is much faster than in
	1.12.2.

    o   Added vignette for Exon/Gene ST arrays (rma and NetAffx annot)

BUG FIXES

    o   Fixed bug in boxplot / hist / MAplot

    o   Fixed issue that would appear with GeneFeatureSet objects, in
	which it selections like obj[c(2, 2, 1),] would generate
	invalid GeneFeatureSet objects

    o   Fixed bugs in image / bg / bgindex / bgSequence for Exon and
	Gene arrays (due to changes in annotation)

    o   Added date/time of scan (for XYS/CEL files) to the protocolData
	slot. For 1 channel applications, the field is called 'dates';
	for 2 channel apps, there are 2 fields: 'dates1' and 'dates2'

NEW FEATURES

    o   New method, runDate(), to extract scan dates from FeatureSet
	objects

                        Changes in version 1.11                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   New vignette structure: Vignette 1: Overview (with multiple
	examples) Vignette 2: Expression (NimbleGen data) Vignette 3:
	SNP Genotyping (Affymetrix)

    o   Uses Imports rather than Depends. Users must explicitly load
	Biobase, affyio, preprocessCore if they need functions from
	these packages.

    o   Revised man page for rma.

NEW FEATURES

    o   Support to large datasets via ff package.  The user should load
	the ff package in order to use this feature. Files used by ff
	are saved to getwd(), unless the user changes the standard
	path.

    o   Support to parallel computing via snow package.  The user
	should load *both* ff and snow in order to use the parallel
	features implemented in the package (backgroundCorrect,
	normalize, summarize, rma, normalizeToTarget). Cluster variable
	should be set as options(cluster=makeCluster(...)).

    o   seqColors and darkColors, respectively, generate a vector of
	sequential colors (in blue) and (qualitative) dark colors
	(based onn Dark2 from RColorBrewer).

    o   plotM method for SnpSuperSet (plot genotype clusters).

    o   getAffinitySplineCoefficients estimates the affinity spline
	coefficients.

    o   getBaseProfile estimates and optionally plots sequence effect
	like gcrma.

BUG FIXES

    o   Fixed definition for probeNames() for Exon/Gene arrays.
	(Mikhail Pachkov)