Changes to version 2.4-1

  o Work around for Tk getSaveFile bug affecting Windows, causing doubled-up file extensions, e.g., .txt.txt (reported by Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Updated translations (with thanks to): Basque (Jose Ramon Rueda), Chinese (Tsung-wu Ho), German (Friedrich Leisch), Korean (Jong-Hwa Shin), Romanian (Adrian Dusa).

  o Small fixes.

Changes to version 2.4-0

  o The R Commander editor for Markdown and knitr documents is now a non-modal dialog, so may remain open while you work.
  
  o Improvement to the barplot dialog (suggestions of Beatriz Lacruz).
  
  o Added dialog for plotting the distribution of a discrete numeric variable (suggestion of Beatriz Lacruz).
  
  o Allow color selection in pie charts.
  
  o Small improvements to activation of menu items.
  
  o Rcmdr showData.threshold option now tests number of rows as well as number of columns.
  
  o Introduced Rcmdr scientific.notation option to suppress scientific notation; corresponds to R scipen option, and default is 5 (as opposed to 0 in R).
  
  o Improved labeling of two-variances test dialog (suggestion of Beatriz Lacruz).
  
  o Improvements to Rcmdr data editor in handling blanks and quotes.
  
  o Moved the following standard packages from Imports: to Depends: graphics, methods, stats.
  
  o Allow entry of variable names in enter table dialog (suggestion of Beatriz Lacruz).
  
  o Improved import of Stata and SPSS data files and provision to import SAS b7dat files.
  
  o Added right-click context menus to text entry boxes.
  
  o Getting Started manual is now supplied as a vignette (with help from Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Refactored Commander() code.
  
  o Separators in plug-in menus can now be placed more precisely, if necessary (following a problem reported by Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Reworked handling of statistical models in plug-ins.
  
  o Boostrap dialog will now plot bootstrap samples.
  
  o Parameter estimate correlations are now reported with VIFs.
  
  o Index plot dialog will now plot more than one variable (suggestion of Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Numerical summaries dialog has new option to show binned distribution of frequency counts (suggestion of Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Small interface improvements.
  
  o Updated translations (with thanks): simplified Chinese (Shulin Yang), French (Milan Bouchet-Valat), Indonesian (I Made Tirta), Japanese (Takaharu Araki), Polish (Lukasz Daniel), Russian (Alexey Shipunov), Spanish (Manual Munoz Marquez).
  
Changes to Version 2.3-2

  o Fixes to Spanish translation (from Manual Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Updated Spanish translation of Getting Started manual (thanks to Manual Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Updated Slovenian translation (thanks to Matjaz Jeran).

Changes to Version 2.3-1

  o Removed dependency of rglwidgets, no longer necessary.
  
  o Fixes to Catalan translation (from Manel Salamero).
  
  o Updated Basque and German translations (thanks to Joserra Rueda and Fritz Leisch).
  
Changes to Version 2.3-0

  o Added .rtf output to options for RMarkdown reports.
  
  o Added bootstrap dialog for "lm"s and "glm"s.
  
  o Added delta-method dialog.
  
  o Added view data dialog, supporting viewing a subset of the active data set, and sort data set dialog (suggestions of Sung-il Cho).
  
  o Added connect option to plot means dialog (suggestion of Graham Smith).
  
  o Added Welch F-test option to one-way ANOVA dialog.
  
  o Added compare coefficients dialog.
  
  o The Shapiro-Wilk test for normality dialog is replaced by a more general normality-tests dialog.
  
  o Dialogs for plotting continuous distributions now allow the user to specify regions to fill.
  
  o Various small improvements/bug fixes.
  
  o Updated translations (with thanks): Catalan (Manel Salamero), French (Milan Bouchet-Valat), Indonesian (I Made Tirta), Japanese(Takaharu Araki), Polish (Lukasz Daniel), Romanian (Adrian Dusa), Russian (Alexey Shipunov), Spanish (Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Updated Japanese getting-started manual (courtesy of Takaharu Araki).
  
  
Changes to Version 2.2-5

  o Fixed data editor to work properly with NAs in existing data sets.


Changes to Version 2.2-4

  o Corrected Slovenian translation (by Matjaz Jeran).
  
  o Embeds 3D rgl graphs in HTML output from R Markdown.
  
  o Improvements to the Rcmdr data editor.
  
  o New version of ismdi() doesn't need compiled code (thanks to Duncan Murdoch), eliminating all compiled code from the Rcmdr package.
  
  o showData() data set displays now updated automatically.
  
  o Small improvements and bug fixes.
  

Changes to Version 2.2-3

  o Updated Slovenian translation (thanks to Matjaz Jeran).
  
  o Fixes to French translation (by Milan Bouchet-Valat).


Changes to Version 2.2-2

  o Updated Galician translation (thanks to Rafael Rodriguez Gayoso).
  
  o Fixes to French translation (by Milan Bouchet-Valat) and Chinese translation (by Tsung-wu Ho).
  
  o Added keep argument to popOutput() (suggestion of Liviu Andronic); similar argument added to popCommand().
  
  o Use new-style R icon.
  
  o Binomial and quasibinomial GLMs with logit link now print exponentiated coefficients ("odds" ratios), as do poisson and quasipoisson GLMs with log link (generalizing a suggestion of Jose Ramon Rueda).
  
  o Names of R objects to be created are no longer translated (e.g., "Dataset", "NormalSamples") into other languages to avoid potential problems (issue reported by Tsung-wu Ho).
  
  o Recognize new location for LaTeX in Mac OS X El Capitan.
  

Changes to Version 2.2-1

  o New Greek translation (contributed by Vasileios Dimitropoulos, Anastasios Vikatos, and Andreas Vikatos, with help from Chel Hee Lee).

  o Updated translations (with thanks to): Basque (Jose Ramon Rueda), Brazilian Portuguese (Marilia Sa Carvalho, with assistance of Chel Hee Lee), Catalan (Manel Salamero), Chinese (Tsung-wu Ho), simplified Chinese (Shulin Yang), French (Philippe Grosjean), Galician (for Rcmdr 2.1-x, Rafael Rodriguez Gayoso), German (Fritz Leisch), Indonesian (I Made Tirta), Italian (Stefano Calza), Japanese (Takaharu Araki), Korean (Jong-Hwa Shin), Polish (Lukasz Daniel), Romanian (Adrian Dusa), Slovenian (Matjaz Jeran), Spanish (Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Modified modelFormula() utility to permit polynomial and splines in one-sided formulas. Used this in Breusch-Pagan test dialog.
  
  O Tweaks.
  

Changes to Version 2.2-0

  o New RMarkdown document, usable when pandoc (and possibly LaTeX) are installed; can be compiled to HTML, PDF, or Word file.

  o New "Tools > Install auxiliary software" menu for installing pandoc and LaTeX.

  o Added concentration ellipses to scatterplot and scatterplot-matrix dialogs (suggestion of Kosar Karimi Pour).

  o Changed defaults for scatterplot, scatterplot matrix, 3D scatterplot, to simplify default plots.

  o Bar plots can now be done by groups.

  o Added dot plot dialog.
  
  o Excel files now read on all platforms with readxl package (via RcmdrMisc).
  
  o Package imports conform to new CRAN requirements.
  
  o Updated translations (with thanks to): French (Philippe Grosjean); Russian (Alexey Shipunov).
  
  o Small fixes/improvements.
  

Changes to Version 2.1-7

  o New simplified Chinese translation (contributed by Shulin Yang).

  o Corrections to Catalan translation (courtesy of Manel Salamero).
  

Changes to Version 2.1-6

  o Prevent overriding S3 methods in standard packages (request of Brian Ripley).
  

Changes to Version 2.1-5

  o Updated Catalan (thanks to Manel Salamero) and Slovenian (thanks to Matjaz Jeran) translations.

  o Export RappP() and mavericksP() (request of Erich Neuwirth).

  o Fixed bug in labeling values of discrete probability mass functions (reported by Vasileios Giagos).
  

Changes to Version 2.1-4

  o Moved knitr and markdown packages to Suggests: to accommodate Debian (request of Dirk Eddelbuettel).

  o New Galician translation, courtesy of Anton Meixome.

  o Updated  translations (with thanks): Brazilian Portuguese (Marilia Sa Carvalho and Adriano Azevedo-Filho); Catalan (Manel Salamero); Indonesian (I Made Tirta); Japanese (Takaharu Araki).

  o Small interface improvements.
  

Changes to Version 2.1-3

  o Updated translations (with thanks): Basque (Jose Ramon Rueda); Polish (Lukasz Daniel); Russian (Alexey Shipunov); Slovenian (Matjaz Jeran).

  o Fixed random-data-generation dialogs so that code works in R Markdown file.

  o Fixed custom contrasts in define-contrasts dialog.

  o Fixed conversion of multiple numeric variables to factors (bug reported by Pedro Barbetta).

  o Added dialog to control R.app app nap under OS X Mavericks.
  

Changes to Version 2.1-2

  o Fixed ignoring of Rcmdr option "ask.on.exit" and "ask.to.exit", causing exiting without asking in non-English locales (bug report by Yoshinobu Kanda).

  o Small bug fixes/improvements.
  

Changes to Version 2.1-1

  o Updated Chinese translation (thanks to Tsungwu Ho); Japanese translation (thanks to Takaharu Araki); and Korean translation (thanks to Jong-Hwa Shin).

  o New cross-platform Rcmdr data editor.

  o Fixed inadvertently reverted histogram dialog (following report by Mark Dunning).
  

Changes to Version 2.1-0

  o Improved R-code generated by many dialogs (mostly implemented by Kosar Karimi-Pour).

  o Added effect-plots dialog (was invoked directly from Model > Graphs menu).

  o Check for functioning Java on 64-bit Windows to load import-from-Excel menu item (issue reported by Kosar Karimi-Pour).

  o Added option to set ttk theme; included in Tools > Options menu item.

  o More careful loading of packages and their dependencies, now placed near the end of the search path.

  o Moved non-GUI-related statistical, graphics, and data management functions to the new RcmdrMisc package (suggestion of Liviu Andronic), which is loaded along with car package at Rcmdr startup.

  o Logical and character variables in the active data set are treated as if they were factors, which works OK for most purposes (following correspondence with Shannon McClintock).

  o Selection of fit indices added to the CFA dialog (suggestion of Tay Lee Yong).

  o Read Excel spreadsheet dialog asks about variable and row names (suggestion of Knut Krueger).

  o The linear-model and GLM dialogs now permit the selection of a weight variable (following a query by Bruce Dunham about fitting binomial -- as opposed to binary -- GLMs). New Rcmdr utility, variableComboBox(), to support these features.

  o New model-summary dialog for linear models, allowing selection of sandwich standard errors; similar options provided in linear hypothesis and ANOVA dialogs for linear models (generalizing a suggestion of Liviu Andronic).

  o New single-sample Wilcoxon test dialog (suggestion of Manuel Munoz Marquez).

  o New drop unused factor levels dialog (suggestion of Manuel Munoz Marquez).

  o Improved handling of help in Mac OS X and RStudio.

  o Improved interaction with RStudio graphics device.

  o Updated getting-started manual.

  o Small changes/improvements.

  o Updated translations (with thanks to the translators): German (Friedrich Leisch); Italian (Stefano Calza); Romanian (Adrian Dusa); Spanish (Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  

Changes to Version 2.0-5

  o New Basque translation (courtesy of Jose Ramon Rueda).
  

Changes to Version 2.0-4

  o Updated Slovenian translation (with thanks to Jaro.Lajovic and Matjaz Jeran).

  o Fixed numSummary() so that it doesn't fail when there's an empty factor level (problem reported by Alan Mainwaring).

  o ActiveDataSet(NULL) now removes the active data set.
  

Changes to Version 2.0-3

  o Updated Polish translation (with thanks to Lukasz Daniel).

  o titleLabel() to format a label in title font and color; exported for plug-ins.

  o Added histograms by group (suggestion of Sarah Dawson).

  o Small interface improvements.

  o Fixed bug in French translation preventing loading R Markdown files (reported by J. Mazet).
  

Changes to Version 2.0-2

  o Moved knitr and markdown packages to Suggests: (suggestion of Dirk Eddelbuettel).

  o Updated Japanese translation of Getting Started manual (by Takaharu Araki).

  o Added editing buttons with tooltips to Rcmdr editor.

  o Added Mac OS X command-key combinations.

  o Tweaks to ttk theme and font handling (with help of Philippe Grosjean and the tcltk2 package).

  o Small bug fixes.
  

Changes to Version 2.0-1

  o Caching of variable names, factor names, etc., to improve menu refreshes in large data sets (in response to observation of Yoshinobu Kanda).

  o Updated translations (with thanks to the translators): French (Milan Bouchet-Valat), Japanese (Takaharu Araki).

  o Most errors now removed from R Markdown and knitr documents.

  o New editor for R Markdown and knitr documents; small addition to Getting Started manual to describe the editor.

  o Stem-and-leaf dialog now supports back-to-back stem-and-leaf displays.

  o Small corrections to the R-Rcmdr.pot file.

  o Small bug fixes.
  

Changes to Version 2.0-0

  o New package co-author: Milan Bouchet-Valat. 

  o Many changes to style of dialogs: tabs, Reset button, Apply button, small interface improvements.

  o Support for R Markdown, with script and Rmd tabs.

  o Expanded Options dialog and new Save Options dialog.

  o Better handling of default fonts.

  o Improved probability plots. 

  o Introduced plotDistr(), lineplot(), indexplot() convenience functions.

  o New nonparametric density estimate dialog.

  o Use automatic point identification as default in plot dialogs.

  o Calls to deprecated functions .find.package() and .path.package() replaced by find.package() and path.package() (suggestion of Brian Ripley).

  o Partial correlations now optionally report pairwise p-values (suggestion of Aaron Swink).

  o Removed Sciviews support code.

  o Small fixes.

  o Updated translations (with thanks to the translators): Italian (Stefano Calza), Korean (Jong-Hwa Shin), Romanian (Adrian Dusa), Russian (Alexey Shipunov), Spanish (Manuel Munoz-Marquez).

  o Show menu item for English introductory manual even if a "translation" is available (suggestion of Manuel Munoz-Marquez).
  

Changes to Version 1.9-5

  o R logo now replaces Tk logo on non-Windows as well as Windows platforms (with help of Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Faster opening of dialog windows under Windows (consequence of above).

  o Fix for Mac OS X bug in auto-load of missing dependencies on initial start-up (reported by Pablo Serrano).
  

Changes to Version 1.9-4

  o Introduced RcmdrEnv.on.path option for plug-in packages that don't conform to the new rules.

  o Bug fixes to some dialogs that didn't work properly when RcmdrEnv not on path (reported by Kristian Hovde Liland).
  

Changes to Version 1.9-3

  o Fixed one- and multi-way ANOVA so that observation statistics can be saved (bug reported by Pedro Alberto Barbetta).

  o New quit.R.on.close Rcmdr option (suggested by Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Fix to Rcmdr display font to improve appearance on some Macs (suggested by Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Modified start-up so that Commander window doesn't open twice when a plug-in is loaded via library() (adapting a suggestion by Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Various low-level changes for compatability with R devel (R 2.16.0).

  o Updated French translation (courtesy of Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Plug-in packages now can specify models via the RcmdrModels: field in the DESCRIPTION file in preference to the Models: field (request of Brian Ripley).

  o Small interface and documentation tweaks and bug fixes.
  

Changes to Version 1.9-2

  o Updated Korean translation and getting-started document (thanks to Shin Jong-Hwa).

  o Updated Japanese getting-started document (thanks to Takaharu Araki).

  o Better icons for dialog buttons, new option to suppress these icons, other interface tweaks (after suggestions of Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Small fixes.
  

Changes to Version 1.9-1

  o Updated version of Getting Started With the R Commander.

  o Updated Italian translation (thanks to Stefano Calza).

  o Updated Japanese translation (thanks to Takaharu Araki).

  o Updated Korean translation and new Korean getting-started document (thanks to Shin Jong-Hwa).
 
  o Updated Polish translation (thanks to Lukasz Daniel)

  o Updated Romanian translation (thanks to Adrian Dusa).

  o Updated Russian translation (thanks to Alexey Shipunov).

  o Updated Slovenian translation (thanks to Jaro Lajovic and Matjaz Jeran).

  o Updated Spanish translation (thanks to Manuel Munoz Marquez).

  o Fixed omissions to R-Rcmdr.pot file (reported by Jaro Lajovic).

  o Small fixes.
  

Changes to Version 1.9-0

  o Improvements to boxplot dialog.

  o Improvements to save graphs dialogs (adapting suggestions of Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Added data import from SAS xport files (suggestion of Peter Mandeville).

  o Added ability to import Excel data sets generally via XLConnect package (suggestion of Michael Weylandt, only for Windows at this point).

  o Added IQR to numerical summaries and table of statistics (suggestion of Peter Mandeville).

  o Updated French translation (thanks to Milan Bouchet-Valat).

  o Updated Korean translation (thanks to Shin Jong-Hwa).

  o Updated Polish translation (thanks to Lukasz Daniel).

  o Updated Spanish translation (thanks to Manuel Munoz Marquez).

  o Updated Xyplot dialog (courtesy of Richard Heiberger).

  o Small fixes and improvements.
  

Changes to Version 1.8-5

  o New Polish translation (courtesy of Lukasz Daniel).
  
  o Small GUI improvements (suggestions/code of Milan Bouchet-Valat).
  
  o globalVariables() invoked for R 2.15.1 and above.
  
  o Added standard button icons.
  
   
Changes to Version 1.8-4

  o Fixes to Italian translation (from Stefano Calza).
  
  o Updated Korean translation (courtesy of Shin Jong-Hwa).
  
  o Fixed bug in numSummary() that surfaced when only one quantile was specified (reported by Peter B. Mandeville).
  
  o Titles for sets of check boxes now left-aligned (suggestion of Milan Bouchet-Valat).
  
  o Fix to Spanish translation (courtesy of Manuel Munoz Marquez).
  
  o Fix to data set edit button, which was removing case names (reported by Gilles Le Pape).
  
  o Updated Slovenian translations (courtesy of Jaro Lajovic and Matjaz Jeran).
  
  o Updated Korean translation (courtesy of Shin Jong-Hwa).
  
  o Rcmdr now detects when it is running under RStudio and arranges to display graphs properly. There is still an open bug causing a freeze in the RStudio graphics device when points are identified in a graph.
  

Changes to Version 1.8-3

   o Small fixes to pass CRAN checks (reported by Kurt Hornik).
   

Changes to Version 1.8-2

   o Fixes to font selection, especially for non-Windows systems.
   
   o Fix to groupsBox() utility function (to fix bug reported by Richard Heiberger).
   
   o PDF files for "Getting Started" manual in English, Japanese, and Spanish compacted (suggestion of Brian Ripley).
   
   o Retain dialog selections optionally non-resettable, used for probability dialogs.
   
   o Bartlett's test and Levene's test now allow more than one factor.
   
   o Updated Slovenian translation (thanks to Jaro Lajovic and Matjaz Jeran).
   
   o Updated Korean translation (courtesy of Shin Jong-Hwa and the Korean translation team).
   
   o Fixed bug in scatterplot dialog that prevented log axes from being used with groups defined (reported by Kent Johnson).
   
   
Changes to Version 1.8-1

   o Updated DESCRIPTION file; version synchronization for CRAN.
   

Changes to Version 1.8-0

    o See CHANGES file for changes to older versions.
    
    o Concluded dialog-memory updates (with help of Kosar Karimi Pour). Rcmdr option retain.selections now set to TRUE by default.
   
    o Added confirmatory factor analysis.
   
    o Updated Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish translations (thanks respectively to Stefano Calza, Takaharu Araki, Adrian Dusa, Alexey Shipunov, and Manuel Munoz Marquez).    
