Changes in version 1.6 (2025-11-26)                   

    o   Replace Author with Authors@R in DESCRIPTION and drop Maintainer field

                  Changes in version 1.5 (2020-08-03)                   

    o   Adapt to changes of ff / bit. Use ff >= 4.0.0 and bit >= 4.0.0

                 Changes in version 1.4.1 (2018-01-25)                  

    o   Copy .sqlite db to temp folder and chmod for complying to R CMD check

                  Changes in version 1.4 (2018-01-17)                   

    o   Added argument odbcDriverConnect.args as requested in issue #2

    o   Changed argument fetch to dbFetch in read.dbi.ffdf and read.jdbc.ffdf

    o   Copy .sqlite db to temp folder for complying to R CMD check

                  Changes in version 1.3 (2015-05-18)                   

    o   Added factorise

    o   Added write.dbi.ffdf, write.odbc.ffdf and write.jdbc.ffdf

    o   Changes regarding CRAN checks - import ff and import chunk from bit

    o   Small changes in examples in the manuals

                  Changes in version 1.2 (2013-01-05)                   

    o   Added function read.jdbc.ffdf to read in data from an RJDBC channel into an ffdf object. This can be used to import data from Hive into an ffdf

    o   Added RJDBC as a suggested package

                  Changes in version 1.1 (2012-05-20)                   

    o   Added function read.odbc.ffdf to read in data from an ODBC channel into an ffdf object

    o   Packages DBI, RODBC and zoo are now Suggested packages instead of Required

                  Changes in version 1.0 (2012-04-03)                   

    o   Initial package providing functions matchmerge, recoder, naLOCFPlusone, renameColumns, read.dbi.ffdf