Changes in 0.9.19:

	* Update unit tests
	* improve the function 'snpgdsGDS2PED' allowing allelic coding output


Changes in 0.9.18:

	* minor fixes in 'snpgdsIBDSelection': missing IBD coefficients


Changes in 0.9.17:

	* avoid compiler issues when the version of R < v3.0
	* minor fixes in 'snpgdsIBDSelection': allow non-character-type sample IDs


Changes in 0.9.16:

	* support long vectors


Changes in 0.9.15:

	* improve 'snpgdsIBDKING' to avoid misleading arguments and examples
	* improve 'snpgdsIBDSelection'
	* the names of column 'sample1', 'sample2' and 'kinshipcoeff' are changed to 'ID1', 'ID2' and 'kinship' in the output of 'snpgdsIBDSelection'


Changes in 0.9.14:

	* 'snpgdsGDS2BED' gives a warning if the allele information is missing
	* add 'snpgdsIBDKING' (KING robust relationship inference in genome-wide association studies)
	* bug fixes in 'snpgdsIBS' and 'snpgdsIBSNum'
	* some warnings in 'snpgdsSummary' are replaced by hints
	* bug fix in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS': duplicate SNP id when importing multiple VCF files
	* improve hint information in 'snpgdsGDS2BED'


Changes in 0.9.13:

	* disable parallel functions in the Windows version of SNPRelate, until the internal multi-thread funcitons are replaced by the functions in win-pthreads
	* fix compiling issues in the Windows version of SNPRelate


Changes in 0.9.12:

	* add 'GetRNGstate' and 'PutRNGstate' to the C function 'gnrDistPerm'
	* remove the upper limit of 200 chromosomes in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS' according to scaffolds/contigs from a de novo assembly not chromosomes
	* improve 'snpgdsSummary'


Changes in 0.9.11:

	* bug fix in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS': to use "\t" as the field separator character
	* bug fixes according to gdsfmt v0.9.11
	* improve the vignette


Changes in 0.9.10:

	* bug fixes in 'snpgdsPairIBD'


Changes in 0.9.9:

	* adds a new argument 'family' to 'snpgdsBED2GDS'
	* improves 'snpgdsCutTree'
	* adds a new function 'snpgdsDrawTree'
	* adds an argument 'option' to the function 'snpgdsBED2GDS'
	* outputs chromosome codes according to 'snpgdsOption' in 'snpgdsGDS2BED'


Changes in 0.9.8:

	* add an alternative method extracting variants from a VCF file in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS'
	* supports multiple files in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS'
	* add 'snpgdsOption'
	* add 'snpgdsHCluster'
	* add 'snpgdsCutTree'
	* add 'snpgdsDiss'


Changes in 0.9.7:

	* bug fix: an important bug of missing genotypes in 'snpgdsVCF2GDS'
	* bug fix: a bug in 'snpgdsGDS2BED' (output 23, 24, ..., instead of X, Y, XY)
	* bug fix: a bug in 'snpgdsCombineGeno' (due to duplicate SNPs)
	* 'snpgdsLDpair' provides haplotype frequency estimates
	* 'snpgdsLDMat' allows specifying sliding window size
	* add RUnit tests
	* add a vignette


Changes in 0.9.6:

	* add functions to 'snpgdsIBDMLE' and 'snpgdsIBDMoM'
	* add a new function 'snpgdsVCF2GDS'


Changes in 0.9.1-0.9.5:

	* bug fixes


0.9.0	03-Aug-2011	Xiuwen Zheng <zhengx@u.washington.edu>

	* first public release of SNPRelate
