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.