NEWS

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FD 1.0-12 (2014-08-19)

• added mahaldis function (author: Pierre Legendre)
• changed maxent and maxent.test (Bill Shipley)
• corrected calculation of nb.sp (thanks to Phil Novack-Gottshall)

FD 1.0-11 (2011-03-21)

• corrected NAMESPACE file

FD 1.0-10

• added option ord = "classic" in gowdis to reproduce behaviour of daisy in {cluster}
• added message about dbFD sometimes crashing due to calc.FRic = "TRUE", and proposed 'solutions'.
• corrected minor bug in dbFD to detect if one species had no trait data
• changed stand.FRic to FALSE in dbFD by default

FD 1.0-9 (2010-04-16)

• fixed bug to compute sing.sp in dbFD(). Thanks to Sarah Berke for reporting.
• added message to mention maxentMC is available as a faster alternative for multicore processors (Linux or Mac only)

FD 1.0-8

• changed behaviour of quick = T in maxent.test. Now also can stop earlier when H0 is true.
• corrected last example in maxent.test (typo)

FD 1.0-7 (2010-03-09)

• added maxent.test, following Shipley (2010)
• changed tol to 1e-7 in maxent
• modified arguments of maxent
• maxent can now be run on multiple sites

FD 1.0-6

• added compiled FORTRAN code for loop in maxent(). About 10x boost in speed.

FD 1.0-5 (2009-11-30)

• corrector minor error in functcomp()

FD 1.0-4

• added bin.num to functcomp() to allow default behaviour to be over-ridden

FD 1.0-3

• added maxent, added Bill Shipley as co-author of FD

FD 1.0-2

• added useDynLib(FD) in NAMESPACE and deleted zzz.r

FD 1.0-1 (2009-10-26)

• CITATION: corrected file
• gowdis: added compiled C code to considerably improve performance
• dbFD: no more error message when calc.FRic = F and calc.FDiv = T