Changes to R2WinBUGS:
=====================

During the process of packaging R2WinBUGS_0.1 - R2WinBUGS_0.2-1,
quite a lot of changes had been made. Those changes are not
documented anywhere ...


Update 0.2-2 (28 Apr 2004):
- schools data: original (see references) instead of the rounded data

Update 0.2-3 (10 Sept 2004):
- bugs.data.inits split to bugs.inits and bugs.data, the latter exported
  from the Namespace.
  Now we can use already written data files in bugs().

Update 0.2-4 (05 Oct 2004):
- bugs.script() did not work for large n.iter values in update step
  (no scientific notation allowed)

Update 0.2-5 (20 Oct 2004):
- bugs() and bugs.script() have a new argument bin that allows to specify
  a number of iterations. After each "bin" iterations the coda files are saved.

Update 0.2-6 (18 May 2005):
- bugs() changes in order to return a file names of coda output files
- new read.bugs() returns a coda mcmc.list object, if codaPkg=TRUE.

Update 0.2-8 (30 May 2005):
- bugs passed DIC to bugs.script in order to be able to disable it

Update 0.2-9 (26 July 2005):
- bugs has new argument clearWD

Update 1.0-0 (05 Aug 2005):
- attach.all(), detach.all(), attach.bugs() and detach.bugs() added/changed
  more or less according to Andrew Gelman's current bugs.R

Update 1.0-1 (14 Nov 2005):
- make inits=NULL work (again ?)

Update 1.1-0 (14 Dec 2005):
- Contribution by Ben Bolker and Yun Yan's rbugs package:
  make R2WinBUGS work under WINE

Update 1.1-1 (17 Feb 2006):
- WINE tweaks (mainly by Gregor Gorjanc)

Update 2.0-0 (08 May 2006):
- bugs() doc fix/updates on scrambling
- bugs.run() has new arg useWINE (by Gregor Gorjanc)
- bugs() and bugs.script() patched for WINEPATH issue
- bugs.script() changed to save log file in ASCII
- new function bugs.log() by Gregor Gorjanc
- new functions as.bugs.array, openbugs and sort.name by
  Jouni Kerman and Andrew Gelman
- new function write.model() based on ideas from Jouni Kerman

Update 2.0-1 (26 May 2006):
- some wine patches for 2.2-0 by Gregor Gorjanc

Update 2.0-2 (26 July 2006):
- changes for DIC, making use of BUGS internal calculations
- some doc fixes

Update 2.0-3 (06 October 2006):
- \\. -> [.] in regular expressions

Update 2.0-4 (01 November 2006):
- print.bugs / plot.bugs documentation fixes
- write.model() fix