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  features                                                               NEWS
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Third version

    o Released December 01, 2015.
    o Added `...' in some of the calls to the smoothers so that smoothing options can be specified by the user
    o changed the default `npts' from 100 to max(100, length(y))


Second version

    o Released August 17, 2011.
    o Added S3 methods for class "features"
    o Two methods: plot (for plotting) and fget (for extracting features) 
    o Removed the `plot.it' option

First version

    o Released August 12, 2011.
