Version 0.5-1:
  - maintenance release to comply with maintainer information format required by CRAN
  - fix incorrect gender of package author and maintainer
  - added a few utility functions: qw(), rowVector(), colVector(), corpora.palette(), alpha.col()
  - minor documentation fixes and updated URLs

Version 0.5:
  - consolidated and revised example data sets included in the package
  - various small, but convenient utility functions added 
  - maintainer information updated

Version 0.4-9:
  - transitory version in which data sets and utility functions for the SIGIL course had been moved into a separate package
  - since the new SIGIL package wasn't accepted by CRAN, the data sets have been moved back into corpora
  - intended re-design of corpora package was cancelled
  - in future, it will be used to collect miscellaneous utility functions for analyzing corpus frequency data

Version 0.4-3:
  - interim release to ensure compatiblity with stricter CRAN checks
  - added data set with Biber register features for all BNC texts (from Gasthaus 2007)
  - some minor corrections

Version 0.4-1:
  - large simulated census data set for examples and illustrations in the SIGIL course
  - simulated type-token statistics from English Wikipedia (based on Wackypedia corpus)
  - convenience function for random samples of rows from a data frame (sample.df)

Version 0.4-0:
  - re-launch of the corpora package on R-Forge
  - first version 0.4-0 has only minor changes over previous release 0.3-2
