[BioC] Recent changes to Bioconductor packages

[madman at jimmy.harvard.edu]

This is an automated message sent out weekly to report recent changes
to Bioconductor packages.  Please see the URL 
http://www.bioconductor.org/changelog.html for a complete history of 
changes.  Unless otherwise noted, these changes apply to the developmental
packages only.
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12 Mar 2004: limma 1.5.6. GKS
- tetragamma() changed to psigamma(x,deriv=2) with R version check
- bug fix to normalizeRobustSpline() to prevent error when spline basis becomes singular
- La.eigen() to eigen() in is.fullrank()

12 Mar 2004: convert 1.1.  GKS
  New package for converting between microarray data classes.

10 Mar 2004: ecoliLeucine - moved it over to experimental data. JG

10 Mar 2004: experimental data - there is now a reposTools style repository
  for experimental data. JG

10 Mar 2004: reposTools - added an option to 'repositories2' to automatically
  detect the BioC experimental data repository. JG

10 Mar 2004: several packages - removed the use of 'multiget' in favor of
  'mget'.  JG

Mra 9, 2003: metaData - New versions of annotation are available for downloading  from the seb site. NULL values in the GO environment have been replaced by NA.  JZ

8 Mar 2004: limma 1.5.4.  GKS
  Now passes R CMD check in R 1.9.0dev.
  - new argument 'mar' for vennDiagram(), reduces white-space for venn Diagrams
  - new argument 'annotation' for read.maimages()
  - fix bug in gls.series to ensure that spacing and weights arguments are passed to duplicateCorrelation()
  - check for R version when setting package argument for .C and .Fortran calls