Changes in version 0.6.4 o Fix links to functions at other non-core packages (required by CRAN check) o Adds Authors@R filed in DESCRIPTION (required by CRAN check) o Typos in some man pages and vignette Changes in version 0.6.0 o New fitsadC-class for fitting abundance data pooled in abundance classe (e.g. coverage data for plants). Methods for fitting, ploting, etc adapted from fitsad-methods. o New coverpred-class for values predicted from models fitted to abundance classes with fitsadC o Function trueLL created to calculate likelihoods from datas in classes intervals. o New dataset with abundance classes addedd (grasslands) o Added a section in intro vignette about fitting sads to abundance classes models. o Small bug in rsads corrected o rpower now calls rpldis from poweRlaw package (way faster) Changes in version 0.4.2 (2018-06-16) o fixed bug that does not allow zero values in non-truncated poilog, geom, nbinom o fix: diagnostic octav plot Plot #1 returned by plot methods for fitsad and fitrad methods had a truncated bar for the first octave. o sads-package.Rd updated to be syncronized with package metadata o rsads now allows a numeric vector in argument 'sads', to define an arbitrary community to be sampled Changes in version 0.4.1 (2017-10-24) o fixed fitpareto to have 2 degrees of freedom o added Svolkov function o removed deprecated "representation" from class definitions o removed some checks for bugs in previous bbmle versions Changes in version 0.4.0 (2017-06-17) o added a "prop" argument for plotting relative rank abundances o changed many details in plotting functions related to above change o fixed registering external calls for R version 3.4 o fixed qbs not accepting non-integer N o added continuous integration tests with TravisCI/AppVeyor o added clarifications for building vignettes on README o fixed a bug where plotprofmle would ignore input parameters o tweaked fitgeom optimization a bit Changes in version 0.3.1 (2016-05-13) o Fixed a CRAN link on README Changes in version 0.3.0 o new functions for density, distribution, quantile and random generators function for the Pueyo's powerbend distribution o several new functionalities for random sad generation (rsad) o now providing random generator functions for all distributions in the package (such as rls, rmzsm, rzipf, etc) o octav is now a S4 method, and octav plots have a new argument "mid=TRUE" o new function and class for likelregions; also changed the spline method for plotting in plotprofmle o better optimization and vectorization of several discrete quantile and distribution functions o fixed the support of Zipf, Zipf-Mandelbrot and geometric series to not include zero abundances or zero-th rank o added He & Tang's formula for initial parameter estimate of the geometric series o more robust checking for invalid data in the fitting functions o fixed bugs in octav, octavpred and dmzsm Changes in version 0.2.4 (2015-11-03) o octavpred now accepts a 'preston' argument (as does 'octav') o fixes a bug in fitvolkov under Windows o added a friendlier error message when the octavs provided in octavpred do not cover the data o deprecated the slot "distr" on fitsad/fitrad objects. Now users should use the `distr` function (see ?distr) o fixed signature errors on several methods dealing with the `trunc` parameter o now providing the coefficients, fitted, fitted.values, residuals methods on fitsad/fitrad methods o providing a summary method for fitsad/fitrad classes that allows for fixed parameters (such as produced by fitls, fitvolkov, etc) Changes in version 0.2.3 (2015-09-25) o fitgeom, fitpoilog and fitnbinom now can get argument trunc=NULL to avoid zero-truncation (the default) o fitgeom uses default optimization method from mle2 instead of Brent's method, to avoid some overflow errors for large datasets (e.g. moths) o dmzsm and dvolkov now returns zero for any abundance larger than the community size J. Accordingly, pzsm and pvolkov now return 1 for any q>J and lower.tail=TRUE and zero for lower.tail=FALSE. o fixes important bugs in AICc Changes in version 0.2.2 (2015-07-12) o plotprofmle is now a S4 method with mle2 and profile.mle2 signatures o Fixed the way \dots are handled by some of the fitting functions o Better starting values for fitting Weibull distributions Changes in version 0.2.1 (2015-06-16) o Fixed some errors in the documentation Changes in version 0.2.0 o Reworked the Volkov distribution for performance. o Reworked density, quantile and distribution functions for more consistent behaviour, error handling and large performance gains. o Added some missing functions for mzsm, poig and poix families. o New function *updatesad* to update a fitsad with better fit from profile. o *radpred* now uses exact solutions for extreme data points. o Reimplemented the *AIC* and *AICc* functions for better integration with fitsad and fitrad classes. o Removed trueLL method to an experimental branch o Improved grammar and clearer text in some manual pages and vignette. o Improved starting values for several distributions. o Replaced table(cut(x)) for hist for improved performance. o octav and rad classes now have validation functions and are more consistent. o More informative calls in *show* and *summary*. o Reduced code redundancy and improved readability. o Changed some "Depends" and "Imports" to make the package more light-weight, but still reliable o Fixed the Broken-Stick family to behave like a Discrete distribution. o Small but importante fixes in *octavpred*. o Workarounds for bugs and issues of the bbmle package. Changes in version 0.1.10 (2014-07-02) o Initial release on CRAN.