NEWS

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steepness 0.3-0 (2022-05-06)

• Solved code problems when checking sociomatrices in main functions.
• Updated way of using UseDynLib in NAMESPACE.

steepness 0.2-2 (2014-10-01)

• New methods for printing and summarizing steepness test and for plotting steepness in linear hierarchies.
• Solved memory-access errors in steep.c code.

steepness 0.2-1 (2014-05-22)

• *Some improvements in steep.c file for compatibility with R>=2.15.3. *.First.Lib replaced by .onLoad function.

steepness 0.2 (2011-09-02)

• A new function, getOrderedMatrix, for ordering the empirical matrix according individuals' NormDS values is included in this new version.
• getinterc is eliminated in this version.
• Methods for quantifying and testing steepness from matrices of win proportions are implemented.
• getw1, getw2, getl1 and getl2 functions in previous version are gathered now in a unique function called getwl.
• "for" loops eliminated in all the functions of steepness package.
• All functions are now constrained to be used for square and numerical matrices.
• cross-calling to steepness functions is avoided in the new version.
• A more efficient way of computing steepness measure, via lm function, is now implemented in getStp, getplot and steeptest functions.
• Some modifications of the C routine included in the package.
• Improvements in Rd files. New examples for illustrative purposes.

steepness 0.1 (2010-03-26)

First public version in CRAN