NEWS file for the vcpen package

Release Notes for version 1.4

• CRAN Release version, with final submission of manuscript

• Added minque for initial vc estimates

• Update summary method and vignette

• Add help file for 'vcexample' data

• Now suggests: rmarkdown and testthat

• Address check issue with cpp if() statement

• converted test suite to testthat to allow for numeric differences less than 1e-10 on other cran platforms

Release Notes for version 1.0

• Original version, pre-release

• Penalized Variance Component Analyses with continuous response. Creates S3 class object 'vcpen' with summary method

• Vignette that demonstrates usage with linear kernel and 100 subjects