version 1.2 - fixed all CRAN check NOTES of old version 1.0 - new argument 'tot' for functions EST, MSE, RMSE; if TRUE, estimates for totals instead of means are returned - benchmarking function 'bench' has been generalized to handle both soft and hard constraints - fSAE.Area now uses a one-column matrix of 1s as a default covariate matrix X - cAIC is now computed even if CV=FALSE (now the default), using a more memory-efficient computation of the trace of the hat matrix - multivariate integration wrapper around 'integrate' is now a separate function - updated plot.sae method and removed dependency on package arm - added several unit tests, using package testthat - improvements to documentation and error/diagnostic messages - small bug fixes and code improvements version 1.0 - initial CRAN release