The argument TI in the functions eblupDyn, eblupRY, and dynRYfit has a new downward-compatible generalization. TI of length 1 functions as previously. TI with a length greater than 1 indexes the years in the series to be included in the model, supporting a model with some breaks in the series.
The parameter y.scale, if specified and not equal to 1, previously caused incorrect estimation of the mse.
Minor changes have been made to the default convergence criterion, and more detailed error messages are provided from 1.2-1.