stabledist 0.6-0 uploaded to CRAN's incoming

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

Many thanks for your submission, on CRAN now.

Best
-k

> A few minutes ago, 
> I have uploaded  stabledist_0.6-0 to CRAN's incoming.

> This is a new, small package which "factors out" the
> [dpqr]stable() functions {and stableMode()} of the  Rmetrics
> package 'fBasics'.
> The next version of fBasics will depend on 'stabledist'.

> Advances:

> 1) stabledist is small and compact, and if useRs only need one of
>   the [dpqr]stable() functions, they now can get 'stabledist'
>   instead of all of 'fBasics' (which itself depends on the
>   "timeDate" and "timeSeries" packages).

> 2) dstable() has been considerably improved speedwise and in
>    numerical boundary situations, where the previous fBasics
>    version ended in an error, e.g.,
>    dstable(4000., alpha=1.00001, beta=0.6)

> 3) the RUnit-based unit tests are now active, as they no longer
>    take too much time.

> Best regards,
> Martin Maechler (for the Rmetrics team).

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