BBmisc_1.9: 2015-02-03
- New argument .newline for messagef
- requirePackages can now dispatch to requireNamespace and has argument default.method.
- normalize now also handles NAs

- new functions
-- mapValues


BBmisc_1.8: 2014-10-30
- Options for the ProgressBar can now be directly passed to the constructor.
- Fixed smaller bugs in normalize

- new functions
-- itostr
-- getRelativePath
-- splitPath
-- do.call2

BBmisc_1.7: 21-Jun-2014
- extractSubList allows for repeated indexing

- new functions:
-- asQuoted
-- collapsef
-- ensureVector
-- explode
-- getAttributeNames
-- getClass1
-- getUsedFactorLevels
-- hasAttributes
-- isSubset, isSuperset
-- makeFileCache
-- normalize
-- setValue
-- optimizeSubInts

BBmisc_1.6: 23-Apr-2014
- the ProgressBar now outputs to stderr by default. But the stream can be configured.
- improve handling of result names (row.names and col.names) in some functions a bit
- convertRowsToList now converts matrices into list of vector by default (see new arg "as.vector")
- rename first, last to which.first, which.last
- improved extractSubList and rowSapply a bit,
  simplification to matrix can be stated in a more readable way.
- new functions:
-- operator %btwn%.
-- convertListOfRowsToDataFrame
-- convertMatrixType
-- convertColsToList
-- v*apply type of functions
-- dapply
-- rangeVal
-- getFirst, getLast
-- symdiff
-- asMatrixCols, asMatrixRows
-- isScalar<Type> family of helper functions
-- sortByCol

BBmisc_1.5: 25-Jan-2014
- removed stringsAsFactors, use convertDataFrameCols
- removed convertDfCols, use convertDataFrameCols
- removed listToShortString, use convertToShortString
- new functions:
-- dropNamed
-- first, last
-- binPack
-- isValidName

BBmisc_1.4: 06-Nov-2013
- renamed convertDfCols to convertDataFrameCols
- deprecated listToShortString, use convertToShortString
- deprecated stringsAsFactors, use convertDataFrameCols
- chunk distributes size of chunks in a better way
- new functions:
-- makeS3Obj
-- getMaxIndex, getMinIndex
-- getMaxIndexOfRows, getMinIndexOfRows, getMaxIndexOfCols, getMinIndexOfCols
-- toRangeStr
-- getOperatingSystem, isWindows, isUnix, isLinux, isDarwin
-- clipString
-- getUnixTime
-- isScalarValue
-- makeDataFrame
-- convertToShortString
-- convertRowsToList

BBmisc_1.3-64: 20-Aug-2013
- removed parallelMap et al., this is now hosted in an extra package at:
  https://github.com/berndbischl/parallelMap
- bugfix for checkArg, lower/upper only checked first element
- exta argument "missing.val" for names2
- extra argument "logicals.as.factor" for convertDFCols
- some speed improvements for convertDFCols and notin
- is.error also works now for objects of class "error" and not only "try-error"
- new functions:
-- isDirectory
-- rowLapply, rowSapply
-- setAttribute
-- seq_row, seq_col
-- strrepeat
-- makeSimpleFileLogger
-- isScalarNA
-- pause
-- printStrToChar

BBmisc_1.2-200: 02-May-2013
- checkArg can now test whether arg is one of multiple classes (OR disjunctive)
- bug fix: cpus setting was not properly respected in multicore mode
- bug fix: warnings where not turned into errors with warningf and option(warn=2)
- some minor bug fixes
- parallelMap: switched multicore mode to package parallel
- new functions
-- lib
-- argsAsNamedList
-- names2
-- convertDfCols

BBmisc_1.1-166: 16-Nov-2012
- some small fixes and added arguments
- new functions:
-- setRowNames, setColNames
-- setClasses, addClasses
-- isFALSE
-- lsort
-- computeMode

BBmisc_1.1-132: 04-Jul-2012
- removed regmatches dependency

BBmisc_1.1-125: 10-May-2012
- removed stringr dependency
- new interface for ProgressBar and more therefore more functionality
- some global options for progressbar behaviour
- options immediate and warning.length for warningf
- checkListElementClass now first checks that argument is a list
- nin (notin) operator
- parallelMap function, can delegate to multicore or snowfall
- stringsAsFactors
- system3
- load2

BBmisc_1.0-77: 17-Mar-2012
- removed calls to .Internal
- more examples
- fixed a bug in checkArg
- makeProgressbar: new option 'inc' to increment
- stopf: new option warning.length
- more options for requirePackages
- new functions: chunk, isExpensiveExampleOk

BBmisc_1.0-58: 05-Jan-2012
- First submit to CRAN.

