[Seqinr-forum] release 2.0-8

[Jean lobry]

Dear seqinR,

release 2.0-8 is on its way to CRAN. This is a not so minor release
as it fixes a bug kindly reported last week by Oliver Clay. Although
the probability of this bug is low it may puzzle many users so that
my advice would be to upgrade if you are using seqinR for teaching
purposes. I would suggest to wait for R release 2.11 (not yet
schedulded but usually in the spring) just to save your time. But you
can upgrade with the current version if you need it.

Best,

Z.



Release Notes for version 2.0-8
-------------------------------

o As pointed by Oliver Clay and Lionel Guy on the seqinr diffusion
   list on 19-FEB-2010 there was a bug in getSequence.list()
   function that confused write.fasta() when all sequences were
   of the same length (a similar bug was reported by Yann Lesecque
   on 30-MAR-2009 for the getTrans() function). This is now
   fixed.

o The message printed when function where.is.this.acc() fails
   to find a database with a given accession number for a sequence is now
   completed to warn the user that (s)he may have supplied a sequence name
   instead of a genuine accession number.

o The title in the documentation for the function write.fasta()
   was changed to make clear that more than one sequence can be written at once.
   The function now does not return anything instead of NULL previously.
   The argument file.out was moved to the left so that it is easier now
   to use it by position during function call.


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