Changes from Version 0.0.8-13 to 1.0 [Marach 2021]
* Update maintainer email
* Transition of Rnw to Rmd [WIP]
* the first stable version

Changes from Version 0.0.8-11 to 0.0.8-12 [February 02 2018]
* Improved plot of humanrater
* Fixed function poc in amptester
* Improved documentation for amptester
* adopted the fairly new CRAN requirements
* removed natbib.sty from vignettes
* some improvements to grammar and spelling

Changes from Version 0.0.8-10 to 0.0.8-11 [April 31 2015]
* further CRAN changes, VideoScan -> 'VideoScan', HCU -> 'HCU'
* some further test of validity for the th.cyc function

Changes from Version 0.0.8-9 to 0.0.8-10 [April 8 2015]
* further CRAN changes

Changes from Version 0.0.8-7 to 0.0.8-9 [April 4 2015]
* further CRAN changes
* Less confusing error messages from th.cyc
* Removed arrow warning in plot.eff 
* assorted documentation improvements

Changes from Version 0.0.8-6 to 0.0.8-7 [March 12 2015]
* New data sets
* further CRAN changes

Changes from Version 0.0.8-3 to 0.0.8-6 [February 22 2015]
* Add citation("chipPCR")
* Improved vignette
* Improved documentation
* Improved examples
* removed calculation of dB from CPP function
* new plot option for MFIaggr function
* several bug fixes
* Reference Spiess et al. 2015 added to documentation
* New contributor Konstantin A. Blagodatskikh
* Adaption to new CRAN policies

Changes from Version 0.0.8-2 to 0.0.8-3 [September 28 2014]
* build uses now: R CMD build --resave-data --compact-vignettes="gs+qpdf" chipPCR
* reduced size of bitmap images

Changes from Version 0.0.8-1 to 0.0.8-2 [September 26 2014]
* suggest RDML package
* update of the vignette
* fix of several annoying bugs
* update and improvement of the GUIs
* minmax parameter renamed to minm

Changes from Version 0.0.8 to 0.0.8-1 [August 26 2014]
* Fix CRAN issue

Changes from Version 0.0.7 to 0.0.8-1 [August 25 2014]
* Numerous bug fixes (see change-log at https://github.com/michbur/chipPCR)
* New function th.cyc (threshold cycle method)
* New function humanrater
* New pco test for amptester
* New function plotCurves
* New "Depends"/"Imports" to/from bptest {lmtest}
* effcalc with improved plot and analysis methods
* Considerably enhanced shiny GUIs
  - New function amptester.gui
  - New function MFIaggr.gui
  - New function lm.coefs (moved from CPP as independent function)
* smoother function has parallelization option now
  - normalization algorithm moved from CPP as independent function normalizer
  - parameter norm of CPP renamed to method.norm
  - parameter rob.reg of CPP renamed to method.reg
* MFIaggr
  - improved plot and analysis methods
  - Breusch-Pagan to test against heteroskedasticity
* Documentation
  - preprocess -> pre-process in docs
  - inclusion of more examples
  - documentation fixes

Changes from Version 0.0.6 to 0.0.7 [June 26 2014]
* From S3 to S4
* Dependency to qpcR and MBmca packages removed
* New "Depends"/"Imports" to/from MASS, ptw, quantreg and shiny, methods
* Many bug fixes
* Better sanity check of input variables
* Code optimized for speed and less memory usage
* Improved some examples
* New function MFIaggr and class refMFI
* New function effcalc
* amptester 
    - flexible head and tail now
    - nonlinearity test to detect positive amplifications
    - t.test exchanged by wilcox.test to compare levels of head and tail 
      region
    - tests for noise (based on Shapiro-Wilk test) and linearity
* smoother
    - Support for weighted Whittaker smoother
    - Argument "spline" as parameter for internal fixNA detracted
    - Uses splines in fixNA exclusively
* CPP
    - has further normalization methods
    - new regression methods (rank-based estimation models, quantile 
      regression)
    - argument "minmax" detracted and substituted by more powerful
      method "norm"
* Added methods to fixNA
* NOTE: new naming convention in inder
* bg.max
      - uses inder method by default now
      - better tests for estimated start and end of exponential 
	amplification region	
* Added rounder function for rounding results of inder
* New data set added
* testxy function added for unformalized testing of x and y values
* Added methods for CPP, inder, bg.max and effcalc
* Added amptest, der and bg classes.
* Assorted improvements to AmpSim
* Added AmpSim.gui
* Many updates and correction to descriptions in manual
* New data sets

Changes from Version 0.0.5 to 0.0.6 [April 24 2014] 

* Several bug fixes
* Improved some examples
* Minor code improvements
* New data sets added