Changes in version 1.2.2 (2024-12-10)                  

    o   The new smof argument opt.method is introduced from which a
	wider choice of numerical optimizers is made available, that
	is, three optimizers from the base package are accessibile.  In
	addition, if the package nloptr is installed on the local
	system, various additional algorithms are made available.

    o   When the transformations are computed using quantiles of
	distribution, the final values of the scores are now mapped to
	the interval (1,K), if K is the number of levels of a given
	facrtor.  The reasons of this choice are explained in the
	‘Details’ section of the smof documentation page.

    o   Generally improved and more detailed documentation.

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2024-10-30)                  

    o   Objects of class gnm are now handled.

    o   Methods coef and anova are introduced for class smof.

    o   The smof argument trace is replaced by the more flexible
	argument verbose.

    o   New smof argument f.tail allows to select the suffix being
	appended to the names the factors components.

    o   Fixed a bug in the parsing of the object formula which caused
	problems when some factor has a name which is portion of
	another factor name.

    o   Fixed a bug in smof_refit affecting the retrival of the work
	parameters estimated by a previous call to smof.

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2024-09-17)                  

    o   A variant method for assigning numeric scores is introduced,
	based on a monotonic spline instead of the quantile function of
	a distribution.

    o   An implication of the new variant method is that smof argument
	scoring had to redesigned.

    o   The new function smof_refit is introduced.

    o   Additional arguments of smof are introduced: original and
	opt.control.

    o   Fixed a bug in predict.smof which affected the case with
	multiple factors.

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2024-03-04)                  

    o   The object returned by smof now includes additional components
	and is assigned to class smof.

    o   Various methods are introduced for class smof: print, summary,
	plot, predict.

    o   Fixed a bug which prevented the use of option fast.fit=TRUE
	when family=binomial(..) and the response was of binary type.

                        Changes in version 1.0.0                        

    o   First public version of the package and upload to CRAN, with
	only one exported function, namely smof.

    o   Scoring of factors are produced from suitably chosen quantiles
	of distributions among the families "gh", "SU", "sinh-arcsinh"
	or their equivalente names.

    o   Admissible classes of fitted models are "lm", "mlm", "glm",
	"survreg", "coxph.penal", "coxph".