2006-09-06 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: needs to depends on stats, for na.omit.
	  It does use methods::as
	  Version is 0.8-17

2006-08-31 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/read.dta, src/stataread.c: return a list from C, 
	  much faster for wide files

	* man/read.dta.Rd, man/write.dta.Rd: update for Stata 9.

	* src/sfm-read.c: changes from PR#9074 <tim.bock@numbers.net.au>

	* src/writeForeignCode.R: fixes for PR#8936,  PR#8927, PR#9006

2006-08-31 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: there are no imports, from methods or elsewhere.
	  Version is 0.8-16.

	* R/Sread.R, R/dbf.R, R/octave.R: use seq_{along,len}.
	
	* src/minitab.c: only use Rinternals.h.

2006-08-11 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* tests/stata.Rout.save: update for str() change.

2006-06-17 Thomas Lumley <tlmley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/writeForeignSAS.R, COPYRIGHTS: Add Stephen Weigand's modifications 
	
2006-05-26 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* R/dbf.R, man/writedbf.Rd: new argument max_nchar to write.dbf()
	to allow longer character fields.

2006-03-29 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-15

	* src/R_systat.c: Don't try to parse comments.

2006-02-25 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/init.c: use const for tables.

2006-01-26 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-14

	* src/pspp-format-def.h: rename from format.def to avoid confusion
	with Windows .def files.

	* R/zzz.R: update FSF address.

2005-12-30  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-13

	* NAMESPACE, R/*.R: use registered symbols in .Call/.External calls.

	* COPYING: update FSF address

2005-12-19  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/SASxport.[ch]: better ways to avoid alignment problems.

	* src/sfmP.h, src/sfm-read.c: remove packing as it causes 
	alignment problems on 64-bit platforms.

2005-12-14  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-12

	* src/SASxport.c: force alignment of char *, as apparently
	gcc4's memcpy requires this.

2005-12-12  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/sfm-read.c, src/SASxport.h: use int not long.  First is
	harmless, the second may not be on 64-bit platforms.
	* src/sfm-read.c: reading a structure from a file assumes that
	alignment is adding no padding, which is not the case on Sparc
	Solaris's native compilers.

2005-12-08  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-11

	* po/R-fr.po, po/fr.po: add French translations.

2005-11-16  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/init.c: new file, add symbol registration.

2005-08-26  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-10

	* src/pfm-read.c, src/sfm-read.c, src/spss.c: replace the
	abuse of casting an int to/from void *, which correctly warned on
	64-bit platforms.

2005-08-19  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/Rdbfread.c, man/read.dbf.Rd: read over-wide numeric fields as
	doubles.

2005-08-15  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/spss.R, man/read.spss.Rd: reverse the order of factor levels
	when creating factors from SPSS value labels

2005-07-13  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-9

2005-07-13  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* R/writeForeignCode.R:
	* R/writeForeignSAS.R:
	  replace use of dQuote() which gave UTF-8 quotes in a UTF-8 locale.

2005-07-07 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/writeForeignSAS.R: add SAS to write.foreign()

2005-07-05  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/writeForeignCode.R: extra punctuation in SPSS code files.

2005-06-08  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* src/dbfopen.c: suppress a couple of warnings on Solaris.

2005-06-07  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
	* src/stataread.c: Writes of empty strings gave an error

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.8-8

2005-05-24  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* R/read.dta.R, man/read.dta.Rd: by default don't use value
	labels unless there is a label for every value.

	* src/sfm-read.c, man/read.spss.Rd: Suppress the "Unrecognized
	record type 7, subtype 13" warning caused by long variable names
	in SPSS files.

2005-04-17  Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.8-7.

	* R/dbf.R: further patch from Roger Bivand for all-NA fields.

2005-04-04 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.8-6.

	* R/dbf.R: patch from Roger Bivand for invalid value for the
	guess at the width of integer or numeric fields

	* src/pfm-read.c: match -> pfm_match to avoid warning.

2005-02-05 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.8-5.

	* R/dbf.R:
	* R/octave.R:
	* R/read.dta.R:
	* R/read.epiinfo.R:
	* R/read.ssd.R:
	* R/Sread.R:
	* R/writeForeignCode.R:
	* po/R-foreign.pot:
	* po/foreign.pot:
	* src/file-handle.c:
	* src/foreign.h:
	* src/format.c:
	* src/minitab.c:
	* src/pfm-read.c:
	* src/R_systat.c:
	* src/Rdbfread.c:
	* src/Rdbfwrite.c:
	* src/SASxport.c:
	* src/sfm-read.c:
	* src/spss.c:
	* src/stataread.c:
	mark error messages for gettext, improve messages.
	* tests/stata.Rout.save: update for str() changes in R-devel

2004-12-27  Kurt Hornik  <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.8-4.

	* R/octave.R: New file, adding read.octave() for reading in files
	in Octave text data format (as generated by 'save -ascii').
	* man/read.octave.Rd: New file, documenting the above.
	* tests/octave.R:
	* tests/octave.m:
	* tests/octave.dat:
	New files for testing read.octave().

2004-12-27 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* test/stata.Rout.save: update for str() changes in R-devel

2004-12-14  Douglas Bates  <bates@bates1-home>

	* src/minitab.c (read_mtp,MTB2SEXP): code for matrices contributed
	by Rajarshi Guha <rxg218@psu.edu>.

2004-12-02  Martin Maechler  <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>

	* tests/dumpdata: enhanced {logical; NA}
	* tests/create-dumpdata.S: new {only internal documentation}

	* tests/S3.R: add verbose=TRUE

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.8-3.
	* DESCRIPTION (Imports): stats, methods

	* R/Sread.R (data.restore): handle "logical"s (with NAs!)
	correctly; handle NAs better in general, getting rid of extraneous
	coercion warning.

2004-12-01  Martin Maechler  <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>

	* R/Sread.R (data.restore): handle `ts()' objects properly

2004-11-24 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.8-2.

	* src/SASxport.c Definition of numerical missing values was
	applied to character fields. (PR#7389)

2004-11-17 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.8-1.

	* read.ssd.{R,Rd}: Make work under Windows and tidy up.

2004-11-8 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* spss.R:  Trim trailing spaces from SPSS value labels

	 Don't create a factor when there are fewer labels than
	 non-missing levels

	* read.spss.Rd: Mention the apparently harmless warning given for
	 recent versions of SPSS files.

2004-10-28 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: Mention read/write .dbf files

2004-10-25 Brian Ripley <Brian.Ripley@R-project.org>

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.8-0.

	* Added read.systat contributed by Roger Bivand

	* Added read.dbf, write.dbf based on functions from package 'maptools'.

	* COPYRIGHTS: New file.

2004-09-02 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* Add write.foreign for writing to foreign packages

	* use Date rather than POSIXt for read.dta

	* Update tests/stata.Rout.save for using Date rather than POSIXt

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.7

2004-07-29  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION: New version is 0.6-11

	* Fix US-style dates in read.epiinfo

	* Add option to turn off some warnings in read.dta

2004-07-15  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.6-10.

	* configure.ac: Protect against possible whitespace in R_HOME when
	calling R CMD config.

2004-05-22  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.6-9.

	* INDEX: Removed.

	* src/SASxport.c (xport_info, xport_read): Make sure that
	R_ExpandFileName() is called on a valid string (PR#5049).

2004-04-28 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION: version 0.6-8

	* read.dta: 1-byte type was coming through unsigned

	* tests/: test file with 1-byte type

2004-04-22 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION: version 0.6-7

	* read.dta: add option to not convert _ to . in variable names

	* tests/  tests of the new option and more tests for stata 8.

2003-12-20  Brian Ripley  <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.6-6.

	* NAMESPACE: New file.

	* man/read.S.R: Do not export nor document SModeNames.

	* src/zzz.R: Define .onLoad as well as .First.lib (the latter left
	in case NAMESPACE is removed for debugging).

2003-12-20  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.6-5.

	* TITLE: Removed.

	* configure:
	* configure.in:
	* configure.ac:
	Upgrade to Autoconf 2.50 style.
	Header file 'src/vars.h' needs to be in AC_CONFIG_HEADERS (as we
	do not AC_SUBST() in it).
	Add testing code for a '-Wno-long-long' C compiler option to shut
	up warnings from gcc -pedantic in fact due to glibc's byteswap.h
	bswap_64 macro (which tries using __extension__, but fails ...).
	* src/Makevars.in:
	New file for possibly setting PKG_CFLAGS to '-Wno-long-long'.

	* src/sfm-read.c:
	Use __extension__ in GNUC version of REM_RND_UP macro.

2003-09-25  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION: Increased version to 0.6-4.

	* src/swap_bytes.h.in:
	The GNU libc header file byteswap.h only provides the bswap_64 macro
	when using gcc. Use suitable replacement when using another compiler
	like icc.

2003-09-25  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.6-3.

	* man/read.epiinfo.Rd: Codoc mismatch.

2003-08-28  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* read.spss.Rd: note that strings are padded on the right with
	spaces.

	* version is 0.6-2

2003-08-19  Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* read.dta: work around a Stata file that says it has value labels
	but doesn't.

	* version is 0.6-2

2003-05-21  Peter Dalgaard BSA	<p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>

	* lookup.xport return SAS variable label and format. Slight change
	  of logic for getting variable name (avoid strchr on things that
	  aren't zero-terminated).

	* version is 0.6-1

2003-05-20 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* read.dta/write.dta handle Stata 8.0

	* version is 0.6

2003-05-08 Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* src/* rename int32, flt64 and comment out int16 and flt32,
	  to avoid conflicts on AIX 5.1.

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.5-13

2003-04-04 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>

	* bug fix for data.restore (bad error message)

2003-03-01 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>

	* bug fix for data.restore (wasn't reading NULL properly)

2002-11-04 Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* configure.win didn't work with all toolsets

	* DESCRIPTION: version is 0.5-8

2002-11-02 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* Fixed src/stataread.c for version 7/SE (thanks to examples sent
	by Jason Liao)

	* version is 0.5-7

2002-07-25 Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* src/stataread.c: float NAs were being mapped to NaNs.
	(Fixed earlier in CVS by Martyn Plummer but not released.)

	* DESCRIPTION: Version is 0.5-6

2002-05-17 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* Stata short ints were coming through unsigned

	* updated SPSS output in tests to follow 2002-04-29 changes

	* version is 0.5-5

2002-05-14 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* Mark Myatt's fixes and extensions for read.epiinfo

2002-05-01  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.5-4.

	* src/minitab.c: remove compatibility definitions for pre-1.2.0
	as otherwise Rversion.h needs to be included explicitly for R
	1.6.0.

2002-05-01  Brian Ripley  <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* src/foreign.h: remove compatibility definitions for pre-1.2.0
	as otherwise Rversion.h needs to be included explicitly for R
	1.6.0.

	* DESCRIPTION: R >= 1.2.0 given the above change.

2002-04-29  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/spss.c, R/spss.R, man/read.spss.Rd: read.spss adds a
	"variable.labels" attribute to the result if any variable labels
	are present in the SPSS file.

2002-03-27  Douglas Bates  <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c (IS_SASNA_CHAR): Silly typo (0x4l, not 0x41)
	caught by Peter.

2002-03-08 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* Update stataread.c to read version 7/SE

	* Add support for Epi Info

	* SPSS: convert only some value labels to factor levels

2002-03-08 Brian Ripley	 <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.4-10.

	* minitab.c, pfm-read.c, spss.c: add casts as required.

	* configure.win: added to allow no-intervention
	  installation on Windows.

2002-01-24  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.4-9.

2002-01-11 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
	read.spss reads factor levels, optionally coerces to data.frame

2001-12-13  Thomas Lumley  <tlumley@u.washington.edu>.
	Typo in Stata date-handling provoked by gctorture()

2001-12-13  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>

	* src/sfm-read.c (bufread): Do not read in 0 bytes [fix by PD].

2001-12-04  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.4-8.

2001-11-13 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
	revised factor reading in src/stataread.c,
	added factor writing for Stata,
	long names now abbreviate()d not truncated.
	Fixed various idiocies in writing strings.

2001-11-12 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
	* src/stataread.c, R/read.dta.R, man/*.dta.Rd,
	tests/datefactor.dta, tests/stata.R: read factors,
	read and write dates in Stata.

2001-10-11 Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>

	* src/stataread.c: use strlen(), not the field width, as the
	argument to allocString().

2001-07-23  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/pfm-read.c, src/spss.c: Do not inline functions on non-gcc
	compilers.
	* src/sfmP.h: Don not use the __atribute__ keyword on non-gcc
	compilers.

2001-07-17 Brian Ripley	 <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.4-6.

	* src/sfm-read.c Use Free not free consistently.

	* src/spss.c (do_read_SPSS): Always open in binary mode.

2001-06-18  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>

	* DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.4-5.

	* src/pfm-read.c (pfm_read_dictionary): Use Calloc() instead of
	R_alloc().

	* src/sfm-read.c (sfm_read_dictionary): Use Calloc() instead of
	R_alloc().

	* src/spss.c (do_read_SPSS): Check for null file pointer.

2001-06-09  Kurt Hornik	 <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>

	* tests/*.R, tests/*.Rout.save:	 Remove `gctorture(TRUE)'.

	* R/*.R: Change name of filename argument to `file'.  Add
	`PACKAGE' arg in FF calls where missing.  Remove .First.lib() from
	stataread.

	* man/*.Rd: Change name of filename argument to `file', and be
	consistent about using keyword `file'.

2001-05-16  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c (next_xport_info): changed size of allocated
	array tmp - it must be at least 81.

2001-05-14  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* R/read.dta.R, src/stataread.c, man/read.dta.Rd, man/write.dta.Rd:
	Added Stata Version 7 support from Thomas Lumley

2001-04-09  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c (next_xport_info):
	initialized *tailpad to 0. Fixed value of *tailpad
	when end of file occurs while trying to get a new record (line
	350). Fixed possible memory leaks in case of call to error.
	(xport_info):  Fixed possible memory leaks in case of call to
	error. Removed most of the Calloc-ed arrays and replaced them with R
	objects.

2001-04-03  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c (next_xport_info): fixed computation of tailpad
	when restOfCard != 0. The earlier method used ftell which can give
	wrong results for long files.

2001-03-31  Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

	* R/read.S.R, man/read.S.Rd:
	New files adapted from package Rstreams to read S3 objects and dumps.

2001-02-22  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/pfm-read.c:
	In read_version_data, added check for date and time with the first
	character of the field ' '.

	Removed check for second integer field in the Variable Count
	Record.

	Both of these changes are based on bug report by Akio Sone.

2001-02-06  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c:
	fixed problem with 8 character names in SAS XPORT format

2001-02-06  Saikat DebRoy  <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c:
	fixed problem with 8 character names in SAS XPORT format

2001-01-24  Douglas Bates  <bates@verdi>

	* src/SASxport.c: Fixing problem with calculation of the number of
	rows in SAS XPORT data sets when the rows are short

2001-01-24  Douglas Bates  <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/SASxport.c (next_xport_info): Adding yet another rule to try
	to detect the number of rows in a SAS data set.

2000-12-14  Douglas Bates  <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

	* cleanup: Added the cleanup script.

	* src/file-handle.h: Added declaration of fh_init_files to keep
	-Wall happy.

	* src/sfm-read.c (read_header): initialized skip_amt to keep -Wall
	happy.

	* tests/minitab.Rout.save: Added a missing blank line in this file
	and in others so they do not produce error reports during R CMD
	check.

1999-12-15  Douglas Bates  <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

	* src/minitab.c (strtrim): Corrected the character count.
	(MTB2SEXP): Added the names of the columns, if they are given.


1999-12-16  Douglas Bates  <bates@stat.wisc.edu>

	* DESCRIPTION (Package): Created a 0.1-1 release under the package
	name "foreign".

	* R/zzz.R: Added the copyright stuff.