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  o Added a NAMESPACE.
Changes in Version 2.1-0
  o Removed dependencies on e1071 and scatterplot3d (the latter replaced by 
    cloud() from lattice). 
  o mlbench.corners() has been renamed to mlbench.hypercube().
  o New function mlbench.simplex() by Manuel Eugster and Sebastian Kaiser.
  o Bugfixes in the bayesclass() methods for ringnorm and threenorm 
    submitted by Julia Schiffer. 
Changes in Version 2.0-0
  o Changed license of complete package to GPL-2.
  o Recompressed all data sets using xz.
  o Added examples to all help pages.
  o Added info about UCI repository to mlbench.waveform.Rd.
Changes in Version 1.1-6
  o Improve CITATION.
Changes in Version 1.1-5
  o Fixed Rd bug and renamed README to LICENSE.
Changes in Version 1.1-4
  o Fixed documentation of S3 objects.
Changes in Version 1.1-3
  o Bugfix: data sets that are loaded using R code did not close the
    corresponding connections.
Changes in Version 1.1-2
  o New data set Zoo.
Changes in Version 1.1-2
  o Converted the 'chas' columns of BostonHousing2 to a factor.
  o Added a corrected version of PimaIndiansDiabetes as PimaIndiansDiabetes2.
 
  o Added correct citation for UCI repository in various places.
Changes in Version 1.1-1
  o Add '...' argument to as.data.frame() methods for consistency
    with R 2.4.0 or later.
Changes in Version 1.1-0
  o New artificial classification problems mlbench.shapes() and
    mlbench.corners()
  o Added corrected version of Boston housing data (thanks to
    John Maindonald). 
	
Changes in Version 1.0-1
  o Minor fixes in BostonHousing.Rd.
Changes in Version 1.0-1
  o Fixed a Bug in the waveform function (thanks to Karsten Lübke).
  o Added a "ZipData: No" to the DESCRIPTION file.
  o All data files are now in compressed format.
  
Changes in Version 1.0-0
  o New function mlbench.smiley().
  o 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.
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