Changes in version 1.2 (2022-03-05)                   

    o   fixed all CRAN check NOTES of old version 1.0

    o   new argument 'tot' for functions EST, MSE, RMSE; if TRUE, estimates for
	totals instead of means are returned

    o   benchmarking function 'bench' has been generalized to handle both soft
	and hard constraints

    o   fSAE.Area now uses a one-column matrix of 1s as a default covariate
	matrix X

    o   cAIC is now computed even if CV=FALSE (now the default), using a
	more memory-efficient computation of the trace of the hat matrix

    o   multivariate integration wrapper around 'integrate' is now a separate
	function

    o   updated plot.sae method and removed dependency on package arm

    o   added several unit tests, using package testthat

    o   improvements to documentation and error/diagnostic messages

    o   small bug fixes and code improvements

                  Changes in version 1.0 (2012-09-05)                   

    o   initial CRAN release