Changes in version 2025-06-23                      

Added

  - A CHANGELOG.md file to track changes to the package.
  - A .Rbuildignore file to ensure a clean package build process.
  - Enabled and corrected unit tests for bmat() to ensure its
    functionality is verified.

Changed

  - Migrated all package documentation from standard roxygen2 tags to
    markdown syntax for improved readability and maintenance.
  - Modernized the DESCRIPTION file, adding a VignetteBuilder field to
    ensure vignettes build correctly and resolving R CMD check warnings.
  - "Beefed up" the README.md file with a more comprehensive overview,
    usage examples, and modern formatting.
  - Updated .gitignore with more robust, standard rules for R package
    development.
  - Updated package-level documentation to use the _PACKAGE sentinel,
    resolving a roxygen2 deprecation warning.

Fixed

  - The bmat() function now correctly evaluates matrix objects in the
    calling environment, resolving a scoping issue that caused testthat
    failures.
  - The mat() function now correctly trims whitespace from parsed
    values, ensuring proper conversion to numeric type.
  - The mat() function now correctly handles whitespace as a separator
    when sep = "".
  - Resolved a CRAN check NOTE by correcting a cross-package link in the
    matrix_rank() documentation.

                     Changes in version 2016-11-20                      

Fixed

  - Fixed a bug in mat.character() where eval = TRUE was not working
    properly.

                     Changes in version 2016-08-27                      

Changed

  - Improved printing of large matrices.
  - The mat function can now handle character strings with R expressions
    (e.g., "rnorm(10)").
  - Added a new vignette discussing the package's matrix functionality.

Removed

  - Removed dependency on the Matrix package.

                     Changes in version 2015-10-26                      

Added

  - Added dmat() for creating data frames and bmat() for creating block
    matrices.
  - Added a number of convenience functions (argmax, argmin, eye, fill,
    etc.) for users familiar with MATLAB/NumPy.

                     Changes in version 2015-06-08                      

Added

  - Initial release of ramify.
  - Added mat() function for creating matrices from character strings or
    lists.
  - Added pprint() for pretty-printing large matrices.