Changes in version 3.0.2.9000                      

(version française :
https://StatCan.github.io/gensol-gseries/fr/news/index.html)

  - Minor corrections to the documentation (e.g., fixing typos).
  - Awesome Official Statistics badge (README.md, index.md and
    fr/index.md).

                 Changes in version 3.0.2 (2025-06-18)                  

(G-Series 3.0 in R)

  - Minor changes to comply with the CRAN requirements following the
    second submission process:
      - New package title (DESCRIPTION).
      - Return values added for function aliases (aliases.R).
      - Operator <<- replaced with environment specific assignments (for
        more predictive behaviour).

                        Changes in version 3.0.1                        

(G-Series 3.0 in R)

  - Bug fix in tsbalancing() to avoid altering the R session's error
    option (getOption("error")) after execution.

  - Validation of class "data.frame" input objects in (relevant) utility
    functions for coherence with the core functions.

  - Updated description of the function arguments regarding the expected
    class of input objects.

  - Minor changes to comply with the CRAN requirements following the
    initial submission process.

                        Changes in version 3.0.0                        

(G-Series 3.0 in R)

  - Initial release of G-Series in R (package gseries).

  - New functionality (stock_benchmarking()) designed for benchmarking
    stocks using a cubic spline interpolation approach.

  - Improvements to the already existing functionalities:
    
      - Benchmarking (benchmarking()):
          - new options allowing proportional benchmarking (lambda != 0)
            in presence of negative values in the input data;
          - a flat indicator series of all zeros is now allowed with
            additive benchmarking (lambda = 0).
      - Raking (tsrasking()):
          - optional alternative handling of negative values in the
            input data (same handling as tsbalancing());
          - helper function (tsraking_driver()) to simplify the
            reconciliation of several periods in a single function call.
      - Balancing (tsbalancing()):
          - customizable solving sequence (multiple attempts at solving
            the problem as opposed to a single attempt);
          - improved solution validation process with more information
            (output data frames) available to help troubleshooting
            invalid solutions;
          - optional input data validation only process (without
            attempting to solve the problem, i.e., resolve the
            discrepancies, if any).

  - New utility functions to help using the core functions, e.g.;
    
      - for producing benchmarking plots;
      - for converting reconciliation problem metadata (tsrasking() to
        tsbalancing());
      - for manipulating time series data (prepare or convert the input
        and output data objects).

                        Changes in version 2.0.0                        

(G-Series 2.0 in SAS®, contact g-series@statcan.gc.ca)

  - New GSeriesTSBalancing macro.

                        Changes in version 1.4.0                        

(G-Series 1.04 in SAS®, contact g-series@statcan.gc.ca)

  - Name change: Forillon becomes G-Series.

  - Introduction of alterability coefficients for PROC BENCHMARKING
    (when rho < 1).

  - New WITH statement for PROC BENCHMARKING.

  - New options WARNNEGRESULT|NOWARNNEGRESULT and TOLNEGRESULT= for PROC
    BENCHMARKING and PROC TSRAKING.

                        Changes in version 1.3.0                        

(Forillon 1.03 in SAS®, contact g-series@statcan.gc.ca)

  - New VAR and BY statements for PROC BENCHMARKING.

                        Changes in version 1.2.0                        

(Forillon 1.02 in SAS®, contact g-series@statcan.gc.ca)

  - Addition of PROC TSRAKING.

                        Changes in version 1.1.0                        

(Forillon 1.01 in SAS®, contact g-series@statcan.gc.ca)

  - Initial release with PROC BENCHMARKING.