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#  News: to package startupmsg
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v 0.7
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user-visible CHANGES:

+ new command TOBEDONE() --- similarly to NEWS() to access TOBEDONE file

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:

+ added tests/Examples folder with file startupmsg-Ex.Rout.save to have
  some automatic testing
+ added field "Encoding: latin1" to all DESCRIPTION files in order to avoid problems 
  with e.g. Windows locale when svn replaces $LastChangedDate
+ added TOBEDONE (sic!) files for each package (by accident also in trunc; these are empty so far)

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v 0.6
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* Rd-style:
  + several buglets detected with the fuzzier checking mechanism
    cf [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25) 
       [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe? , Prof Brian Ripley,

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v 0.5.3
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  * new issuer 'mySMHandler' to cope with long package names and
     variable "paper" widths acc. to getOption("width")
     (automatically inserts line breaks...)
  * moved license to LGPL-3

  
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v 0.5
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* startup messages are now also of S3-class 'packageStartupMessage'
  and hence may now also be suppressed by 
  suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base')

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v 0.4
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* deleted: import "methods" from Namespace
* included: argument "VIGNETTE" in function "buildStartupMessage"

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v 0.3
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* inserted references to the mail thread 
  "Wishlist: 'quietly' argument for .onAttach() / .First.lib()"
  on r-devel, April 2006 into seealso  

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v 0.2
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* abolished: S3 class StartupVersionMessage with corresponding constructor
* abolished: call startupVersionMessage
* abolished: control for linestarter (anyone could do this himself: 
             + the developper using his own SMHandler 
             + the user by specifying a suitable custom restart
* abolished: wrapper onlyversionStartupMessages
* abolished: modified output in startMessage

* instead: extended S3 class StartupMessage by a slot 'type' with corresponding
           accessor startupType
* instead: onlytypeStartupMessages with an atypes argument to filter out 
           types that are to be shown
* instead: introduction of mystartMessage with a 
* instead: startMessage now comes with a type argument
* instead/new: SMHandler argument for mystartupMessage and buildStartupMessage
               defaulting to mySMHandler
* clarified: code to buildStartupMessage

* new: separation into "general routines" documented in ?"startmsg"
       and an illustration covering mystartupMessage and buildStartupMessage
       documented in ?"mystartupMessage"
* new: custom restart (idea: Seth Falcon)


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v 0.1
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* defined S3 classes StartupMessage, StartupVersionMessage with corresponding constructors
* accessor startupPackage
* wrappers suppressStartupMessages, onlyversionStartupMessages
* calls startupMessage, startupVersionMessage
* utilities readVersionInformation, readURLInformation, pointertoNEWS, infoShow, NEWS
* main function buildStartupMessage (also controllable by options "StartupBanner" resp. "StartupLinestarter")