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Revision: 1241
          http://r-gregmisc.svn.sourceforge.net/r-gregmisc/?rev=1241&view=rev
Author:   warnes
Date:     2008-01-30 11:55:08 -0800 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008)

Log Message:
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Update DESCRIPTION and NEWS for release 2.4.0

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/gdata/DESCRIPTION
    trunk/gdata/inst/NEWS

Added Paths:
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    trunk/gdata/ChangeLog

Added: trunk/gdata/ChangeLog
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--- trunk/gdata/ChangeLog	                        (rev 0)
+++ trunk/gdata/ChangeLog	2008-01-30 19:55:08 UTC (rev 1241)
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+link inst/ChangeLog
\ No newline at end of file


Property changes on: trunk/gdata/ChangeLog
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Name: svn:special
   + *

Modified: trunk/gdata/DESCRIPTION
===================================================================
--- trunk/gdata/DESCRIPTION	2008-01-29 11:26:03 UTC (rev 1240)
+++ trunk/gdata/DESCRIPTION	2008-01-30 19:55:08 UTC (rev 1241)
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 Description: Various R programming tools for data manipulation
 Depends: R (>= 2.4.0)
 Imports: gtools
-Version: 2.3.1
-Author: Gregory R. Warnes. Includes R source code and/or documentation
-        contributed by Ben Bolker, Gregor Gorjanc, and Thomas Lumley
+Version: 2.4.0
+Date: 2008-01-30
+Author: Gregory R. Warnes and Gregor Gorjanc. Includes R source code
+	and/or documentation  contributed by Ben Bolker and Thomas Lumley.
 Maintainer: Gregory Warnes <gre...@ur...>
 License: GPL-2

Modified: trunk/gdata/inst/NEWS
===================================================================
--- trunk/gdata/inst/NEWS	2008-01-29 11:26:03 UTC (rev 1240)
+++ trunk/gdata/inst/NEWS	2008-01-30 19:55:08 UTC (rev 1241)
@@ -1,5 +1,40 @@
+CHANGES IN 2.4.0 (2008-01-30)
+-----------------------------
+
+- The keep() function now includes an 'all' argument to specify how
+  objects with names starting with '.' are handled. 
+
+- keep() now shows an informative warning message when a requested
+  object does not exist
+
+- New vignette "Mapping Levels of a Factor" describing the use of
+  mapLevels().
+
+- New vignette "Working with Unknown Values" describing the use of
+  isUnknown() and unknownToNA().
+
+- Several enhancements to read.xls() (thanks to Gabor Grothendieck):
+
+  - New function xls2csv(), which handles converting an xls file
+    to a csv file and returns a connection to the
+    temporary csv file
+
+  - xls2csv() and read.xls() both allow a file or a url to be specified
+
+  - read.xls() has a new 'pattern' argument which, if supplied,
+    will ignore everything prior to the first line in th csv file
+    that matches the pattern.  This is typically used if there
+    are a variable number of comment lines prior to the header
+    in which case one can specify one of the column
+    headings as the pattern.  read.xls should
+    be compatible with the old read.xls.
+
+- Minor fixes to drop.levels(), is.what().
+
+- Implementation of unit tests for most functions.
+
 CHANGES IN 2.3.1 (2006-10-29)
----------------------------------------
+-----------------------------
 
 - Arguments as well as their position of reorder.factor have been changed
   to conform with reorder.factor method in stats package, due to collision


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