NEWS

		 CHANGES IN FLCore VERSION 2.6

NEW FEATURES
  - FLModelSim and FLModelSims new classes - [<- FLArray now accepts an
  input FLQuant and keeps the structure, still recyling as appropriate.  -
  New FLStockLen class for length-based stock data and results.  - New tS and
  tS<- method to extract and replace individual time steps in an object with
  years and seasons - tsp method for FLQuant returns 'tsp' attribute: start,
  end and frequency (seasons) - Arith method for FLQuant is now unit-aware,
  see ?units - wireframe method from lattice now available for FLQuant -
  [ method for FLQuantDistr - FLIndexBiomass class for biomass-based indices
  of abundance.

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
  - model.frame(FLComp) now has an mcf=TRUE argument to correct slots of
  different dim - computeLogLik method added to FLModel. Will return a
  logLik object calculated with the data and params in the object - New
  iterMedians(FLQuant) method to applky median along iter dim - coerce
  method for data.frame to FLPar now assumes a 2D structure with iters as
  rows and params as columns - rlnorm(FLPar, ...) and rnorm(FLPar, ...) now
  available - mvrnorm(numeric, FLQuant) and mvrnorm(numeric, FLQuant, matrix)
  now available - propagate(FLComp) now propagates FLPar slots as well -
  FLFleet, FLMetier and FLCatch classes (plus their plurals) and methods
  have been moved to the FLFleet package - ifelse has now been definedx for
  test="FLQuant" - as.data.frame for FLQuant(s) and FLComp now has an option
  cohort=FALSE to return a column named cohort, calculated as year-age. Ony
  for age-quanted objects - getPlural is now an S4 method dispatching on
  singular classes and returning the name of the corresponding FLlst-based
  class - as.data.frame(FLQuants) returns qname as factor with levels in
  the order of the input object - modified quantile(FLQuant) so dimnames
  in iter follow quantile(array), e.g. 50% - tail method for FLQuant,
  operates by default along the year dimension.  - deprecated sr function is
  now a method to return aligned stock/recruits FLQuants from an FLStock -
  propagate(FLComp) accepts extending an object to existing nu mber of iters
  for all other slots of length 1.  - trim(FLS) u[pdates min/maxfbar if needed
  - transform(FLComp) now accepts a named FLQuants object as substitution
  argument (...)  - FLQuants() now accepts an FLCOMP object and a list
  of names/functions to be used to extract individual FLQuant(s) - FLPar
  validity now checks that content is numeric. Default frist dimname is now
  'params' - FLIndices class can take both FLIndex and FLIndexBiomass objects
  - mean.lifespan renamed as meanLifespan to avoid S3 conflict

BUG FIXES
  - iterMeans(FLQuant) was not operating along the 6th dim - coerce from
  FLPar to data.frame now works as expected - Added check for range names to
  FLComp class validity. Elements must be named with non-empty strings and
  contain, at least, min, max, minyear and maxyear - coerce from data.frame
  to FLPar now handles correctly iters - apply(FLArray) did not keep the
  object units - rnorm, rlnorm and rpois did not keep tje object units -
  code2name for FLSR did not reocngize properly bevholtSV - fmle() can now
  use method="Brent" for one parameter problems - New ple4.biol with data
  up to 2008. No integer value - prototype object for FLComp VIRTUAl class
  has name as character(1) - as.FLQuant(df) failed on objects with no 'year'
  column - propagate(FLQuant) now accepts iter == dim[6] - Faulty comparison
  in expand(FLArray) fixed #7 - Wrong test in validity for FLModelSim - Fixed
  bug in FLPar %% FLPar when objects were actually equal in dims, always
  returned product - quantile(FLQuant) returned oject with wrong dimensions

UTILITIES

DOCUMENTATION

DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
  - FLFleet, FLMetier and FLCatch classes (plus their plurals) and methods
  have been moved to the FLFleet package