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NEWS
MuMIn package news:

Version: 1.7.0 (2012-01-25)
This version adds possibility to model average and re-rank (with another IC) a 
	model selection table without recreating the fitted models. Models from 
	package 'coxme' are now supported. Model selection tables include now extra 
	columns showing differences in attributes of the modelling function call.
model.avg: use 'model.selection' without refitting the models. Fixed a problem 
	with averaging different types of models together (happened when 'df's were 
	available only for some of component models)
dredge: coefficient tables added to the result (attribute "coefTables"). 
	The code has been streamlined.
print.model.selection: now reports random terms also for objects generated by
	'model.sel'
get.models: can handle 'model.selection' objects from 'model.sel'
model.sel: re-ranking 'model.selection' without recreating original models 
	(works only if the IC can be applied to logLik). Output has additional 
	columns showing differences between models (based on call's arguments)
Added generic methods for 'coxme' and 'lmekin' classes (package 'coxme').

Version: 1.6.6 (2012-01-07)
model.avg: fixed error occurring when non-estimable coefficients existed in the 
	component models (problem reported by Annabel Smith)

Version: 1.6.5 (2011-11-28)
pdredge example changed to use SOCK cluster type (portability issue)

Version: 1.6.4 (2011-11-26)
coefTable: replaces 'tTable' (which still exists, but is deprecated), it 
	accepts an argument 'dispersion'. The dispersion parameter can be also 
	passed from 'model.avg'.
pdredge: collects all the warnings and errors which occur during fitting, and 
	stores them. They are printed below the table.
	The function does more thorough checking of the cluster nodes' environment,
	for possible missing variables and functions.
get.models:  "subset" argument can be now a character vector giving model names.
added demos for model selection with models from 'unmarked' package using 
	'dredge' and 'pdredge'

Version: 1.6.3 (2011-11-15)
pget.models: new function, parallel version of 'get.models'.
(p)get.models: important change of the default behaviour: without the 'subset' 
	argument, ALL models are returned. Also the '...' arguments were not used to
	update the returned models - this is corrected now.

Version: 1.6.2 (2011-11-13)
pdredge: new function, a parallel version of dredge (experimental).

Version: 1.6.1 (2011-11-11)
dredge: added generic support for all 'unmarked' models, and fixed some bugs 
	with it.
model.names: new function (previously was internal only)
CAICF: adds to the collection of rarely used information criteria.

Version: 1.6.0 (2011-11-07)
dredge: most important change (although invisible to the user) is in the way the
	model objects are updated. The new function 'makeArgs' is used to generate 
	the updated call. This results in a very flexible interface to the modelling
	functions. The default method updates the 'formula' argument, other methods 
	can be used to deal with more problematic calls (the models from package 
	'unmarked' were a challenge). Apart from the model classes previously
	supported by 'dredge', support for 'unmarkedFitOccu', 'unmarkedFitColExt'
	and several other 'unmarkedFit' objects has been added.
dredge: has new argument 'extra' to add additional statistics into the model 
	selection table.
r.squared: new function to calculate likelihood-ratio based pseudo-R-squared
subset method for 'model.selection' accepts a shorthand notation "has(x)" to 
	select rows where a variable is present.
support for 'survreg' and 'rq' models (packages 'survival' and 'quantreg')

Version: 1.5.2 (2011-10-21)
dredge: fixed a bug with wrong ordering of column names in the returned 
	data.frame (thanks to Staffan Roos for reporting this).

Version: 1.5.1 (2011-10-20)
compatibility with R prior to 2.13.0: added workarounds for missing generic 
	function 'nobs'.

Version: 1.5.0 (2011-10-18)
model.avg: removed the argument "method", the standard errors and confidence 
	intervals are calculated only for coefficients averaged within a subset of 
	models where they are present (method = "NA"). The "full" coefficients are
	also returned, but without std. errors.
plot.model.selection: new function to visualize the model selection table
manuals expanded, examples revised
getAllTerms: should work for most of the classes derived from 'unmarkedFit'
a load of small improvements, polishings and fixes, generally invisible to the 
	user.

Version: 1.4.4 (2011-10-16)
QAIC: no longer uses model deviance, as it gave biased values.
ICOMP, Cp: new information criteria 
model.avg: now performs a smarter check for duplicate models, fixed calculation 
	of importance values
model.sel: new alias to 'mod.sel' (eventually will replace 'mod.sel').

Version: 1.4.3 (2011-10-13)
Beetle: new data - beetle mortality, with examples from B&A's book
dredge: new arguments 'varying', 'm.min' and 'evaluate'
manuals modified and corrected 
tests/gamm.R: tests for 'gamm'/'gamm4' support.

Version: 1.4.2 (2011-10-11)
support for 'gamm' and 'gamm4'
gamm: added a wrapper for gamm, that allows for updating the object (hopefully 
	needed only temporarily)

Version: 1.4.1 (2011-10-10)
A few changes to vignette 'gamm'

Version: 1.4.0 (2011-10-05)
importance: new function
mod.sel: added method for a 'model.selection' object

Version: 1.3.10 (2011-09-23)
Reverted changes made in previous version (package dependencies) to succesfully
	pass checks.

Version: 1.3.9 (2011-09-17)
removed  *.lmer *.glmer methods, added dependency on lme4 >= 0.999375-16
tTable.mer: minor change

Version: 1.3.8 (2011-09-17)
Restored compatibility with R 2.12.2
getAllTerms: new attribute 'intercept'

Version: 1.3.7 (2011-09-16)
handling double intercept (phi(Int) and p(Int)) in 'unmarked'

Version: 1.3.6 (2011-09-12)
changes in the documentation and vignette

Version: 1.3.5 (2011-08-05)
mod.sel: new function
added methods for 'unmarkedFit' objects (package 'unmarked'), to provide (limited)
	support in 'model.avg'

Version: 1.3.4 (2011-08-03)
Added vignette document on model selection with 'gamm' and 'gamm4'
(thanks to Graham MacDonald for an incentive)

Version: 1.3.3 (2011-08-01)
dredge: small improvements, no longer dependent on 'bitops'
Polished the documentation

Version: 1.3.2 (2011-08-01)
nobs: updated methods

Version: 1.3.1 (2011-07-31)
dredge: bugs fixed

Version: 1.3.0 (2011-07-29)
model.avg: now may be used directly with 'model.selection' object
summary.averaging: gives now more information

Version: 1.2.4 (2011-07-29)
fixed handling of spatial parameters (lambda, rho) in models from package 'spdep'
dredge: modified for better performance
dredge, get.models: can deal with glms with starting values provided ('start'
	argument)
QAIC: added a note in documentation stating that is uses deviance rather than
	logLik in the calculation

Version: 1.2.3 (2011-04-07)
fixed some REML/ML issues, AICc rewritten (based on the new AIC code in stats)

Version: 1.2.2 (2011-04-06)
nobs: corrected methods for mixed models, added documentation page

Version: 1.2.1 (2011-04-05)
.GetLogLik - hidden helper function (returns the proper logLik to use)

Version: 1.2.0 (2011-04-04)
AICc has new argument REML used with mixed models. Thanks to Benjamin Augustine
	for suggestion.

Version: 1.1.2 (2011-03-19)
removed arguments 'alpha' and 'level' from model.avg. 'confint' is used instead
	to obtain CI

Version: 1.1.1 (2011-03-18)
the printed output of 'averaging' has been made consistent with that of lm and
	glm: 'print' gives concise information and 'summary' gives more details.
confint.averaging: new function.
print.summary.averaging: new function.

Version: 1.1.0 (2011-03-10)
added z-statistic, p-values (with significance stars) to model.avg output

Version: 1.0.0 (2011-02-10)
get.models: fixed - arguments in ... were not passed to updated models
predict.averaging: predictions on response scale can be calculated
	(type=response)
new functions (not exported): nobs, coefDf
model.avg: now makes use of correct DF from component models in calculation of
	adjusted SE
par.avg: calculates ASE if df are provided, example(QAIC) now demonstrates
	predictions with confidence intervals

Version: 0.14.2 (2011-02-05)
dredge: small changes, slightly faster
manual corrected

Version: 0.14.1 (2011-02-04)
vcov.averaging, logLik.averaging: new methods,
revised formula for unconditional variance
manual reworked

Version: 0.14.0 (2011-01-19)
TODO: model.avg: added npar to the selection table
predict.averaging: now can return averaged SE
par.avg: may use revised formula for calculating averaged SE

Version: 0.13.21 (2011-01-16)
dredge: handling of update'd lmer models improved
QAICc: new function

Version: 0.13.20 (2011-01-16)
Namespace exports updated (coxph methods)
dredge: uses now QAIC for glms with 'quasi*' family, and if no rank is specified

Version: 0.13.19 (2011-01-15)
model.avg: fixed wrong ordering of model names (thanks to Dennis Jonason for
	noticing this)

Version: 0.13.18 (2010-10-16)
Support for coxph (package survival)

Version: 0.13.17 (2010-09-13)
model.avg: fixed a bug with models with binary response;
dredge: added checking for na.omit'ting in the global model.
new tests: varia.R

Version: 0.13.16 (2010-09-07)
dredge, model.avg: broken support for several types of models was fixed

Version: 0.13.15 (2010-09-06)
support for MASS::multinom

Version: 0.13.14 (2010-09-03)
print.model.selection:empty columns are not printed now

Version: 0.13.13 (2010-09-02)
dredge: handling of models with no intercept, added "call" attribute
update.model.selection: new

Version: 0.13.12 (2010-08-29)
dredge, getAllTerms, dredge.Rd: small modifications

Version: 0.13.11 (2010-08-28)
getAllTerms: improved handling of interactions, random terms (lmer) and
	"offset()"
formulaAllowed: now allows for exceptions in margins presence checking (new
argument: "except")
dredge: now tries to call fitting function directly rather than through update
	(more effective in case when model not passed as a variable). New arguments:
	"trace", and "marg.ex" - marginality checking exceptions.

Version: 0.13.10 (2010-08-26)
getAllTerms: fixed a bug with with wrong ordering of interaction terms (resulted
	with a:b or b:a depending on the set of terms). Improved handling of random
	terms in lme.

Version: 0.13.9 (2010-08-24)
dredge: fixed bugs introduced in the previous version

Version: 0.13.8 (2010-08-03)
QAIC: examples expanded

Version: 0.13.7 (2010-08-02)
dredge: prints errors generated by models as warnings (previously these were
	skipped silently)

Version: 0.13.6 (2010-08-01)
print.model.selection: improved column abbreviation.

Version: 0.13.5 (2010-07-31)
dredge: fixed a bug causing interaction coefficients to be stripped from
model.selection table, new function 'fixCoefNames' (not exported) handles proper
ordering of interaction components in coefficient names.

Version: 0.13.4 (2010-07-21)
'beta.weights' now uses 'tTable' (support for more model types), 'dredge' with
beta=TRUE tries out if it can get beta.weights working.
Manual: added gls and rlm to the list of supported models

Version: 0.13.3 (2010-07-15)
Bug fixed in print.averaging

Version: 0.13.2 (2010-07-14)
Attributes for custom rank function in "dredge" and "model.avg" are now
evaluated model-wise, if provided as expressions.

Version: 0.13.0-1 (2010-07-12)
Fixed compatibility issues with models of class "lme" and "sarlm".
"model.avg" does now some checking whether all models were fitted to the same
data and have the same response.

Version: 0.12.13 (2010-07-09)
'recalc.weights' argument added to "subset.model.selection".
Small bug fixed in dredge.

Version: 0.12.12 (2010-07-08)
New in "dredge": Subsetting models a priori according to a formula

Version: 0.12.11 (2010-07-07)
Subset/extract methods for 'model.selection' object

Version: 0.12.10 (2010-07-05)
Fixed "predict.averaging" for missing 'newdata' handling; Table returned by
"dredge" now has factors for terms with more than one level (they were
previously shown as '1')

Version: 0.12.9 (2010-07-03)
Finally fixed problems with variable exporting and hidden methods

Version: 0.12.7-8 (2010-07-02)
Small changes in namespace and documentation

Version: 0.12.6 (2010-06-26)
Tidying up the code, small changes.

Version: 0.12.4 (2010-06-21)
added: "predict.averaging" and "coef.averaging", 'averaging' object contains
additional elements, so that several default methods work with it.

Version: 0.12.2 (2009-06-14)
fixed: 'alpha' in "model.avg" was not passed to "par.avg"

Version: 0.12.1 (2009-04-20)
fixed: method="NA" in model.avg, par.avg now accepts NA's in 'weight'

Version: 0.12.0 (2009-03-24)
Change in version number only. Had to make this jump in numbering, as there was
a typo in DESCRIPTION file of an early version, (0.11.2 instead of 0.1.0), and
since then R-forge mechanism seemed to ignore actual newer versions, as they had
lower number.

Version 0.1.1 (2009-03-22)
Modified: dredge: added "fixed" and "m.max" arguments.

Version 0.1.1 (2009-03-17)
Fixed: par.avg: Variance estimate corrected (previous estimate was square root
of variance). Thanks to Mick Wu.
Fixed: dredge: Apparently "expand.grid" cannot handle too many combinations, so
now dredge stops with a more explanatory message

Version 0.1.0
dRedging (0.11.2) moved to R-Forge.
Since model averaging is now the main focus of the package, its name changed
to MuMIn - MUltiModelINference.
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