[Returnanalytics-commits] r2447 - pkg/Meucci

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Author: braverock
Date: 2013-06-26 19:37:39 +0200 (Wed, 26 Jun 2013)
New Revision: 2447

Added:
   pkg/Meucci/THANKS
Modified:
   pkg/Meucci/DESCRIPTION
Log:
- bump version, add THANKS file

Modified: pkg/Meucci/DESCRIPTION
===================================================================
--- pkg/Meucci/DESCRIPTION	2013-06-26 17:34:40 UTC (rev 2446)
+++ pkg/Meucci/DESCRIPTION	2013-06-26 17:37:39 UTC (rev 2447)
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 Type: Package
 Title: Collection of functionality ported from the MATLAB code of Attilio
     Meucci.
-Version: 0.2.1
+Version: 0.2.2
 Date: $Date: 2012-06-06 15:18:48 -0500 (Wed, 06 Jun 2012) $
-Author: Ram Ahluwalia, Manan Shah
+Author: Ram Ahluwalia, Manan Shah, Xavier Vals
 Maintainer: Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com>
 Description: Attilio Meucci is a thought leader in advanced risk and portfolio
     management. His innovations include Entropy Pooling (technique for fully
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
     regularly posts code along with his working papers.  Unfortunately for
     those of us using R, he prefers to code in Matlab.  Some of that code
     requires Matlab's additional Optimization Toolkit. This package is the
-    result of a Google Summer of Code project in 2012 that sought to convert a
-    subset of his Matlab code to R to make it more widely assessible to R
-    users.  All of Meucci's original MATLAB source is available on
+    result of a Google Summer of Code project in 2012 and 2013 that seeks 
+    to convert a subset of his Matlab code to R to make it more widely 
+    accessible to R users.  All of Meucci's original MATLAB source is available on
     www.symmys.com.  That code should be considered the reference code that
     this package seeks to port to R.  This package remains under
     development (and likely will as long as Attilio keeps publishing code), and

Added: pkg/Meucci/THANKS
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--- pkg/Meucci/THANKS	                        (rev 0)
+++ pkg/Meucci/THANKS	2013-06-26 17:37:39 UTC (rev 2447)
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+This package would not be possible without the work by Attilio Meucci not only 
+to do the research, but to publish his code in an open format for others to use.
+
+Attilio has very graciously collaborated with the R port of his code, and supported 
+the work and understanding that goes with any port.  It is our hope that this 
+package will be incorporated into later published versions of his work, so that
+language choice is not a restricting factor in using his research for teaching or 
+live portfolios. 
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