Changes in version 0.4-28 (2025-12-11)                 

    o   Add ORCID IDs

    o   add [.dist method that allows 2d-indexing.

    o   remove names method which did not conform with single indexing.

    o   add proxy prefix to registry classes (registry_entry,
	registry_field) to avoid clash with registry package

    o   use long data type for indexing in C code

    o   remove dim dist method

                 Changes in version 0.4-27 (2022-06-09)                 

    o   cosmetic changes in help pages

    o   add angular distance/similarity; keep old behavior as cosine

                 Changes in version 0.4-26 (2021-06-07)                 

    o   Change coercion function for cosine similarity to distance to
	1-x instead of 1-abs(x)

                 Changes in version 0.4-25 (2021-03-05)                 

    o   fix scaling for gower metric in case of cross-proximities to
	scale x and y together.y

                 Changes in version 0.4-24 (2020-04-25)                 

    o   fix tests in apply.R to comply to new default behavior of
	encoding character strings in data frames

                 Changes in version 0.4-23 (2019-03-05)                 

    o   smaller changes in C code to prevent false positives from
	automated CRAN code checking

                      Changes in version 0.4-21.1                       

    o   Change registry class name to proxy_registry to prevent name
	clashes with registry package.

                 Changes in version 0.4-21 (2018-01-04)                 

    o   some more C-code PROTECTing.

                 Changes in version 0.4-20 (2017-12-12)                 

    o   print method for simil objects added that prints NA instead of
	0 for diagonal elements, if requested.

                 Changes in version 0.4-19 (2017-10-29)                 

    o   fix for binary distance (C-code): now has same behavior as the
	corresponding distance method in the stats package in case of
	missing values.

                 Changes in version 0.4-17 (2017-02-01)                 

    o   pr_simil2dist now computes 1 - abs(x) instead of 1 - x.

                 Changes in version 0.4-15 (2015-07-08)                 

    o   add imports from recommended packages.

                 Changes in version 0.4-14 (2015-02-04)                 

    o   export as.matrix() generic.

                 Changes in version 0.4-11 (2014-01-13)                 

    o   Make binary similarities work with binary data in case of list
	data (by coercing list to a matrix).

                 Changes in version 0.4-10 (2013-04-14)                 

    o   Bug in Fager/McGown measure fixed.

                 Changes in version 0.4-9 (2012-09-02)                  

    o   Author/Maintainer removed.

                 Changes in version 0.4-8 (2012-08-24)                  

    o   PACKAGE="proxy" argument added to all .External-calls.
	"PACKAGE" field added to the registry, defaulting to "proxy",
	and used by .Call().

                 Changes in version 0.4-7 (2012-01-24)                  

    o   the method argument of dist() now also accepts a registry entry
	to avoid unnecessary lookups in repeated calls to dist().

                 Changes in version 0.4-6 (2010-02-06)                  

    o   bugfix: names<-.dist did not accept NULL as assignment.

                 Changes in version 0.4-5 (2009-11-05)                  

    o   small vignette with an overview of existing methods added.

                 Changes in version 0.4-4 (2009-10-13)                  

    o   Podani, Chord, geodesic, Hellinger and Whittaker
	dissimilarities added.

    o   Fager/McGown anf Faith similarities added.

                 Changes in version 0.4-3 (2009-05-24)                  

    o   pr_dist2simil now computes 1 / (1 + x) instead of 1 / (1 - x)

    o   fix labeling bug for list data with named components

    o   the C-level dist functions now conform with those in package
	stats with respect to NA handling (pairwise-complete
	observations).

                 Changes in version 0.4-2 (2009-03-31)                  

    o   as.matrix.dist by default now uses 0 for diagonal elements

                  Changes in version 0.4 (2008-05-28)                   

    o   fix a bug in Kullback-Leibler-distance

                  Changes in version 0.3 (2007-10-09)                   

    o   fixed Gower-dissimilarity

    o   fixed dist/simil subsetting

    o   self-proximities now default to NA

                  Changes in version 0.2 (2007-08-10)                   

    o   data frames are auto-converted to matrices if all variables are
	either numeric, logical, or complex (to be compatible to
	stats::dist)

    o   pairwise distances can now be computed

    o   Registry is now case-insensitive

                  Changes in version 0.1 (2007-07-09)                   

    o   Initial release