Changes in version 0.2.2 (2017-05-01)                  

    o   added startMPIcluster "defaultopts" option

                 Changes in version 0.2.1 (2014-12-20)                  

    o   fixed "R CMD check" warnings reported by Kurt Hornik

                  Changes in version 0.2 (2013-06-14)                   

    o   require R 2.14.0 or newer

    o   added setRngDoMPI function

    o   added backend-specific "seed" option for reproducible results

    o   added compiler support and "nocompile" option to disable it

    o   added two new examples to demonstrate "cluster exporting"

    o   switched from multicore to parallel package

    o   improved variable exporting support

    o   fixed error handling when calling combine function

    o   removed nws support

    o   fixed bugs in pi2.R and initEnvir.R examples

                 Changes in version 0.1-5 (2010-08-10)                  

    o   fixed "R CMD check" warning reported by Kurt Hornik

                 Changes in version 0.1-4 (2010-01-14)                  

    o   add backend-specific "initEnvirMaster" option

    o   added randomForest example and benchmark

    o   fixed build problem caused by use of randomForst in vignette

    o   fixed use of "/dev/null" for better Windows support

    o   loaded multicore in non-spawn mode as it is in spawn mode

                 Changes in version 0.1-3 (2009-12-09)                  

    o   modified exception handling in the worker loop to be more efficient

    o   renamed workerLoop to dompiWorkerLoop to avoid conflict with nws

    o   added mtag and wtag arguments to startMPIcluster and openMPIcluster

    o   added a README file to acknowledge people and packages

                        Changes in version 0.1-2                        

    o   rewrote MPI broadcast support to be more efficient

    o   added backend-specific "forcePiggyback" and "bcastThreshold" options

    o   added support for executing doMPI scripts in non-spawn mode

    o   added support for multiple cluster objects by adding "comm" and
	"intercomm" arguments to startMPIcluster

    o   modified benchmarks to take command line arguments using getopt

    o   modified benchmarks and examples to run in non-spawn mode

                        Changes in version 0.1-1                        

    o   added sanity checks on the way the program is executed

    o   added backend-specific "profile" option

    o   added "bcast" argument to startMPIcluster

    o   added "logdir" argument to startMPIcluster and startNWScluster

    o   use of mclapply controlled via "maxcores" argument

    o   multicore and nws are now suggested rather than required

    o   new examples and a demo

                         Changes in version 0.1                         

    o   project created on r-forge