Changes in version 1.6 (2016-02-29)                   

LAYOUT

  - NEWS -> inst/NEWS.md

NEW FEATURES

  - merged Tamm package

LOW LEVEL

  - removed Rcpp modules
  - switched to Rcpp Attributes
  - exported cpp functions start with cpp_

                 Changes in version 1.5.2 (2014-08-16)                  

NEW FEATURES

  - full field profile under gaussian beam illumination (reflection and
    transmission)

  - new functions multilayerfull and multilayer_field calculating
    internal field for a given incident field

USER VISIBLE CHANGES:

  - slight changes to the interface of field_profile

LOW LEVEL:

  - rewrote the gaussian beam code to use multilayer matrix transfer
    method

  - link to cubature at c++ level to perform the gaussian beam
    integration

                  Changes in version 1.5 (2013-12-16)                   

USER VISIBLE CHANGES:

  - initial version of gaussian beam calculations (single layer,
    incomplete)

  - removed demos (see wiki instead)

  - more consistent variable names and output

  - angles are in radians, distances in nanometres

BUG FIX:

  - (Rcpp::)function namespace issues with some c++ compilers

LOW LEVEL:

  - tests

  - vignettes moved to vignettes/

planar 1.3.1

BUG FIX:

  - fixed missing prefactor in transmission coefficient when incident /
    outgoing media were not vacuum

                         Changes in version 1.3                         

USER VISIBLE CHANGES:

  - cleanup function names

  - depends on dielectric (0.2.2)

NEW FUNCTIONALITY:

  - added gaussian module for gaussian beam calculations

DOCUMENTATION:

  - vignettes using knitr

  - cleanup wiki and demos

                        Changes in version 1.2.5                        

DOCUMENTATION:

  - wiki added

  - cleanup demos

INTERNAL CHANGES:

  - misc updates to clean up package

USER VISIBLE CHANGES:

  - units are in nm

                 Changes in version 1.2.4 (2012-09-19)                  

BUG FIX:

  - ggplot2 compatibility

                        Changes in version 1.2.3                        

BUG FIX:

  - fixed demos

                 Changes in version 1.2.2 (2012-07-04)                  

BUG FIX:

  - fixed demos, vignette, and misc code arguments

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2012-05-15)                  

BUG FIX:

  - fixed bugs for ggplot2-0.9.1

                  Changes in version 1.2 (2012-03-05)                   

BUG FIX:

  - fixed bugs for ggplot2-0.9.0

                  Changes in version 1.1 (2011-07-30)                   

BUG FIX:

  - revert to plain ascii text

                  Changes in version 1.0 (2011-07-27)                   

  - Initial CRAN release