CHANGES IN VERSION 0.54.0 ------------------------- NEW FEATURES o Add longForm() S4 generic. See https://github.com/waldronlab/MultiAssayExperiment/issues/333 for some context. o Add paste2() S4 generic, with methods defined for ordinary vectors and arrays. Also add add_prefix() and add_suffix(), two simple wrappers around paste2() provided for convenience and code readability. o Define setequal() S4 generic with generics::setequal as default method. SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES o Add CRAN package generics to Depends field. The default methods for S4 generics union(), intersect(), and setdiff() now are generics::union(), generics::intersect(), and generics::setdiff(), respectively. See '?BiocGenerics::setops' for more information. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.52.0 ------------------------- NEW FEATURES o Define the OutOfMemoryObject class (VIRTUAL class with no slots). o Add S4 generic containsOutOfMemoryData() and implement various methods. See '?containsOutOfMemoryData' for the details. o Add S4 generic saveRDS() and a default method that is just a thin wrapper around base::saveRDS() that issues a warning if the object to serialize contains out-of-memory data.