\name{NEWS}
\title{NEWS file for the vcpen package}
\section{Release Notes for version 1.4}{
  \itemize{
    \item CRAN Release version, with final submission of manuscript 
    \item Added minque for initial vc estimates
    \item Update summary method and vignette
    \item Add help file for `vcexample` data
    \item Now suggests: rmarkdown and testthat
    \item Address check issue with cpp if() statement
    \item converted test suite to testthat to allow for numeric
    differences less than 1e-10 on other cran platforms
  }
}
\section{Release Notes for version 1.0}{
  \itemize{
    \item Original version, pre-release
    \item Penalized Variance Component Analyses with continuous
    response. Creates S3 class object 'vcpen' with summary method
    \item Vignette that demonstrates usage with linear kernel and 100 subjects
  }
}    

