[BioC] Recent changes to Bioconductor packages

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21 Feb 2004: limma 1.5.1.
- now passes R cmd check for R >= 1.7.1 including R1.9.0dev
- removed package argument from calls to .C and .Fortran loess hooks in modreg
  package.
- edited package dependencies in DESCRIPTION file.
- dimnames and length methods for RGList, MAList and MArrayLM objects
- bug fix in duplicateCorrelation() which was not finding the M matrix when
  object was not an MArrayLM
- new argument 'resort.by' for toptable() and topTable()
- changes to loessFit() to avoid errors with small numbers of observations
- argument 'path' added to readSpotTypes() and readTargets()
- check in duplicateCorrelation() for correlation less than -1
- more expository comments added to 2.Classes.Rd
- duplicateCorrelation now uses randomizedBlockFit from the statmod package
  instead of gls from the nlme package.  This results in a several-fold
  increase in speed for duplicateCorrelation and dupcor.series.
- dupcor.series now deprecated
- getLayout() now has option to guess spacing between duplicate spots
- new function blockDiag() to form block diagonal matrices
- fix bug in imageplot() which caused overprinting of plots when using
  par(mfrow)
- new function poolVar to Welch-style pooling of sample variances with
  unequal variances
- new functions usersguideURL() and .First.lib() to implement limma
  entry in Windows drop-down Vignettes menu
- bug fix for write.fit() (was failing when adjust p-values with
  multiple contrasts)
- updates to references as linear modelling paper now accepted for
  publication