NEWS
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 BUG FIXES
 
     o '$' completion on eSet and ExpressionSet works in RStudio.
 
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 BUG FIXES
 
     o exprs<- enforces value with correct dim, dimnames.
 
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 NEW FEATURES
 
     o tab completion implemented for eSet classes
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     o head and tail.AnnotatedDataFrame methods introduced
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 NEW FEATURES
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     o Add write.AnnotatedDataFrame function; request of
     samuel.granjeaud
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
     o channelNames<-,NChannelSet,*-methods allow re-naming channels
 
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     o NChannelSet validity requires all assayDataElementNames() to be
       levels in varMetadata()$channel.
 
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 BUG FIXES
 
     o Updating an AnnotatedDataFrame no longer duplicates metadata
       from partially matching column names.
 
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
     o dimnames(), rownames(), colnames() and setters work on
     eSet-derived objects
 
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 CHANGES IN VERSION 2.17
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
     o l2e(), previously deprecated, has been made defunct.
 
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     o All objects made defunct in previous release cycles have been removed.
       This includes geneNames, getExpData, eList, reporterNames, getBiocRepos,
       read.exprSet, updateOldMiame, df2pD, read.pD, read.phenoData, exprData,
       exprList, and phenoData.
 
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
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     o 'l2e' deprecated, use 'list2env' in base instead 
 
     o  MIAME class moved to subclass of MIAxE virtual class 
 
 NEW FEATURES
 
     o Added MIAxE virtual class to hold experiment meta-data classes
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
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     o 'show,eSet-method' summarizes protocolData, if available.
 
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     o 'snpCall' 'snpCallProbability' accessors added for SnpSet.
 
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 BUG FIXES
 
     o 'selectSome' returns short factors as character()
 
 
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 USER VISIBLE CHANGES
 
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     o 'protocolData' slot added to eSet class to store protocol
     metadata stored in microarray data files; can be accessed by
     protocolData and set by protocolData<-.
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     o 'sampleNames,NChannelSet-method' returns a vector when the
     sample names of each channel are the same.
 
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 CHANGES IN VERSION 2.1
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 NEW FEATURES
 
     o 'makeDataPacakge' method for ExpressionSet now accepts a
     'description' argument for the generated manual page.
 
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 BUG FIXES
 
     o combine,matrix,matrix-method would record 'NA' for entries in
     the second matrix with niether rows nor columns present in the
     first.
 
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     o openPDF now checks for NULL or zero-length pdfviewer option
 
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 CHANGES IN VERSION 2.0
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 SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
 
     o 'combine' on data.frame columns with mismatched levels causes a
     warning, rather than error.
 
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     o updateObject does not warn about duplicating locked environment,
     unlesss verbose=TRUE
 
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 NEW FEATURES
 
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     o 'combine' now works to combine rows of ExpressionSet
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 BUG FIXES
 
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     o AnnotatedDataFrame 'show' listed additional varMetadata column
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       names incorrectly when labelDescription was not the first.
 
 NEWLY DEFUNCT CLASSES, METHODS, FUNCTIONS, DATA SETS
 
     o Defunct S4 Classes
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        1) annotatedDataset - class definition still exits to support
        phenoData conversion
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        2) exprMatrix - removed class definition
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        3) exprSet - class definition still exists to allow conversion
        to ExpressionSet
        4) phenoData - class definition still exists to allow
        conversion to AnnotatedDataFrame
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     o Defunct Generics/Methods
        1) addVarMetadataEntry - S4 generic definition removed
        2) as.data.frame.exprSet - S3 method removed
        3) convertVarLabels - S4 generic definition removed
        4) eList - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
        5) "eList<-" - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
        6) exprs2excel - S4 generic definition removed
        7) getExpData - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
        8) geneNames - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
        9) "geneNames<-" - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
       10) getUnits - S4 generic definition removed
       11) getVarMetadata - S4 generic definition removed
       12) iter - S4 generic definition removed
       13) reporterInfo - S4 generic definition removed
       14) "reporterInfo<-" - S4 generic definition removed
       15) reporterNames - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
       16) "reporterNames<-" - S4 methods remain with .Defunct messages
       17) split (for use with exprSet objects) - S4 generic definition removed
       18) update2MIAME - S4 generic definition removed
 
     o Defunct functions
        1) df2pD - function stub with .Defunct message
        2) read.exprSet - function stub with .Defunct message
        3) read.pD - function stub with .Defunct message
        4) read.phenoData - function stub with .Defunct message
        5) updateOldMiame - function stub with .Defunct message
 
     o Defunct data sets
        1) bbsym
        2) eset - use sample.ExpressionSet instead
        3) golubMergeSub
        4) sample.eSet - use sample.MultiSet instead
        4) sample.exprSet.1 - use sample.ExpressionSet instead
        5) sample.exprSet - use sample.ExpressionSet instead
        6) SWPD
        7) swrep