[Vegan-commits] r1556 - branches/1.17/inst

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Mon Mar 28 20:44:10 CEST 2011


Author: gsimpson
Date: 2011-03-28 20:44:09 +0200 (Mon, 28 Mar 2011)
New Revision: 1556

Modified:
   branches/1.17/inst/NEWS
Log:
Tweaks to language for release

Modified: branches/1.17/inst/NEWS
===================================================================
--- branches/1.17/inst/NEWS	2011-03-28 12:59:58 UTC (rev 1555)
+++ branches/1.17/inst/NEWS	2011-03-28 18:44:09 UTC (rev 1556)
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@
       models. The bug was introduced in vegan 1.17-7. 
 
     - diversity and related functions rarefy, rrarefy and specnumber
-      accept now vector input. Earlier a single site had to be
-      analysed either as a one-row matrix or using non-default setting
-      MARGIN = 2.
+      npow accept vector input. Earlier a single site had to be
+      analysed either as a single-row matrix or using the non-default
+      setting MARGIN = 2.
 
     - drarefy: new function that returns a matrix of probabilities
       that a species occurs in a rarefied sample of a given size.
 
-    - metaMDS: it is possible to give starting configuration with the
-      'previous.best' argument. An old metaMDS or isoMDS result can
+    - metaMDS: it is possible to supply a starting configuration with
+      argument 'previous.best'. A previous metaMDS or isoMDS result can
       also be given as a starting configuration. If the starting
       configuration has a higher number of dimensions than requested,
       the extra ones are dropped, and if the starting configuration
@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@
 
     - metaMDSrotate: can now rotate metaMDS solutions with any number
       of dimensions so that the first axis is parallel to a fitted
-      environmental vector. Earlier only two dimensions worked.
+      environmental vector. Previously, only two dimensional solutions
+      worked.
 
     - ordilabel: gained argument 'xpd' that allows labels outside the
       plot area. This allows labels above axes, for instance.
 
-    - ordisurf: gained several new arguments to control the gam
+    - ordisurf: gained several new arguments to control the mgcv::gam
       fitting. Also gained an argument to suppress plotting, and a new
       plot method. The fitted model can be specified with a formula. 
 



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