Changes in version 2.0.4 (2025-04-11)                  

  - changed contact email address
  - remove c++14 system requirement in DESCRIPTION
  - pass spell checking
  - removed potential warnings of the optimization in .shrinkvars()
  - deprecated igraph::set.vertex.attribute() replaced by
    igraph::set_vertex_attr()

                        Changes in version 2.0.3                        

  - pass CRAN checks

                 Changes in version 2.0.2 (2020-05-28)                  

  - changed contact email address
  - separate centering and scaling c++ functions to compute sample
    variances

                 Changes in version 2.0.1 (2020-01-28)                  

  - Small bugs fixed in c++ code

                 Changes in version 2.0.0 (2020-01-26)                  

Major changes

  - the main code of beam() is now written in C++

  - new D argument for beam() to specify the shrinkage target of the
    linear shrinkage estimator

  - new function lightbeam() that is a wrapper for beam() and
    beam.select(). It is faster and outputs a lighter object (sparse
    matrix).

  - new methods postExpSigma and postExpOmega for beam-class objects
    that provide the posterior expectation of covariance and
    inverse-covariance matrices, respectively. These methods also allow
    the shrinkage estimation of the variances (or not).

Minor changes

  - Dependency on Rcpp has been added

  - date and description have been added in ``DESCRIPTION`

  - a NEWS file has been added

  - paper citations have been updated