NEWS

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mlbench 2.1-5 (2024-05-02)

• Clarify source information: the old UCI URLs no longer work.

mlbench 2.1-4

• fixed warnings in waveform.c

mlbench 2.1-2

• Moved Data-Administration.R to inst/notes
• fixed NAMESPACE problems
• added registration of C functions

mlbench 2.1-1 (2012-07-10)

• Added a NAMESPACE.

mlbench 2.1-0 (2010-10-08)

• Removed dependencies on e1071 and scatterplot3d (the latter replaced by cloud() from lattice).
• mlbench.corners() has been renamed to mlbench.hypercube().
• New function mlbench.simplex() by Manuel Eugster and Sebastian Kaiser.
• Bugfixes in the bayesclass() methods for ringnorm and threenorm submitted by Julia Schiffer.

mlbench 2.0-0 (2010-01-21)

• Changed license of complete package to GPL-2.
• Recompressed all data sets using xz.
• Added examples to all help pages.
• Added info about UCI repository to mlbench.waveform.Rd.

mlbench 1.1-6 (2009-02-05)

• Improve CITATION.

mlbench 1.1-5 (2009-01-12)

• Fixed Rd bug and renamed README to LICENSE.

mlbench 1.1-4 (2008-07-02)

• Fixed documentation of S3 objects.

mlbench 1.1-3 (2007-06-01)

• Bugfix: data sets that are loaded using R code did not close the corresponding connections.

mlbench 1.1-2 (2006-10-09)

• New data set Zoo.
• Converted the 'chas' columns of BostonHousing2 to a factor.
• Added a corrected version of PimaIndiansDiabetes as PimaIndiansDiabetes2.
• Added correct citation for UCI repository in various places.

mlbench 1.1-1 (2006-05-23)

• Add '...' argument to as.data.frame() methods for consistency with R 2.4.0 or later.

mlbench 1.1-0 (2005-08-30)

• New artificial classification problems mlbench.shapes() and mlbench.corners()
• Added corrected version of Boston housing data (thanks to John Maindonald).

mlbench 1.0-1 (2005-03-07)

• Minor fixes in BostonHousing.Rd.
• Fixed a Bug in the waveform function (thanks to Karsten Lfcbke).
• Added a "ZipData: No" to the DESCRIPTION file.
• All data files are now in compressed format.

mlbench 1.0-0 (2004-02-03)

• New function mlbench.smiley().
• Version 1.0-0 is not really different from the previous release (version 0.5-10), but we decided that it is stupid to have a version number smaller than 1.0 for a package that is stable and useful.