1 Summary of important user-visible changes for financial 0.4.0:
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4 ** The following functions are new at financial 0.4.0:
6 cfconv cfdur corr2cov cov2corr
8 ** The following functions have been imported from the time package
9 which has been removed (it is now simply a dummy package that
10 lists the financial package as its single dependency):
12 busdate busdays datefind datesplit
13 day daysact easter eomdate
14 fbusdate holidays hour isbusday
15 lbusdate lweekdate m2xdate minute
16 month months nweekdate second
17 thirdwednesday today x2mdate year
20 ** The following functions were made private (`fetch' should be used
23 __fetch_google__ __fetch_yahoo__
25 ** The function `datesplit' (just imported from the time package) has
26 been deprecated in favour of `datevec' from Octave-core.
28 ** The functions `rate' and `irr' should now be compatible with new
31 ** The function `fetch' should now work properly when using google
32 finnance to adapt to the UTF-8 file received.
34 ** The function `dateaxis' should no longer enter in debug mode at the
37 ** The package is now dependent on the io package (version 1.0.18 or
38 later) since the functions that it depended of from miscellaneous
39 package have been moved to io.
41 ** Package is no longer automatically loaded.