CHANGES IN VERSION 1.31.1
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  o the signature of rank() has now ... and "last" as option in ties.method (for compatibility only -- not supported) 

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.25.3
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  o Changed the "c" function from an S3method to use the S4 generic.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.25.2
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  o Fixed the width function to handle correctly the left end of the intervals

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.25.1
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  o Changed readGff3 to use closed intervals by default. Implemented two
  sub-functions that implement reading a gff3 as base-pair features only (no
  zero length intervals, i.e. right-closed intervals) or which allows for
  zero length intervals, i.e. right-open intervals, when start equals end)

  o Deprecated the seq_name accessors in favour of the BiocGenerics seqnames

  o Added a width accessor - similar to the IRanges functionality

  o Added coercion to GRangesList and RangedData

  o Edited some of the documentation (man page) and NAMESPACE generation to
  use roxygen2

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.25.0
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 o Bioc Version 3.2 devel

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.24.1
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  o Fixing Git-SVN issues

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.24.0
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  o Bioc Version 3.1 release


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.23.2
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  o Ported version 1.22.2-1.22.3 changes

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.23.1
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  o Ported version 1.22.1 changes

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.23.0
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  o Bioc Version 3.1

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.22.3
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  o Fixed a documentation cosmetic issue

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.22.2
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  o Fixed a pretty printing issue if the formatting (inclusion of space)

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.22.1
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  o Fixed an issue in the formatting of the coordinates in the
  writeGff3 function

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.22.0
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  o Bioc Version 3.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.21.1
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  o Ported version 1.20.1 changes

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.20.1
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  o Added an argument to the readGff3 function to
  enable quietness.

  o Corrected some R CMD check warnings

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.3
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  o genome intervals order now consisten with assumption that (start == [start-1 and that stop) == stop-1]

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.2
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	o Depends on intervals >=0.14.0 to fix a change in R's split behavior
	o sort does not have byName argument any longer

NEW FEATURES
	o order, sort, rank and xtfrm consistently implemented.


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.1
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	o Created that NEWS file to replace the
	CHANGES file and be compliant to the R
	standard package architecture

NEW FEATURES

    o introduced a coercion to data.frame
    o introduced a writeGff3 function
    o reverted the sort behavior to the default R behavior
    and added a method argument. Setting it to byName results
    in a more biologically relevant sorting of the object.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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NEW FEATURES

    o annotation and annotation<- now from BiocGenerics. Thanks to Nicolas Delhomme.

BUG FIXES

    o in interval_union use full argument name (levels instead of level)

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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	o updated Julien's email address


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.4
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NEW FEATURES

    o added a 'which_nearest' method for Genome_intervals objects


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.11.1
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NEW FEATURES

    o strand and strand<- now from BiocGenerics. Thanks to Nicolas Delhomme.


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.5
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NEW FEATURES

    o show only show the 1st 4 rows and the last 4 rows of a genomeIntervals

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.4
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NEW FEATURES

   o Added a 'sort' method for 'Genome_intervals' objects

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.3
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NEW FEATURES

   o Added a new user-friendly constructor function 'GenomeIntervals'
     for constructing both 'Genome_intervals' and
     'Genome_intervals_stranded' objects

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.2
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BUG FIXES

    o regular expression in the extract method (called by parseGffAttributes()) fixed to make sure any key is at the beginning of after a ';'

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.1
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BUG FIXES

    o The package does not "Depends" on Biobase but only "Imports" it.
    o readGff3 deals with Gff having only "+" strand entries (bug report from Nicolas Servant) as well as "?" strand entries
