RELEASE NOTES 

		spatstat 1.6-3

	 	12 April 2005


OVERVIEW

	There is one new function and a few improvements to
	existing functions. 

COMPATIBILITY

	This version should be completely compatible
	with the previous version 1.6-2.
	
NEW FUNCTIONS

	crossdist
		calculates the matrix of distances
		from each point in a point pattern X
		to each point in a pattern Y.

IMPROVEMENTS/ENHANCEMENTS

	1. Kmulti() now runs about 5 times faster.
	This also affects alltypes(..., fun="K").

	2. The functions pairdist() and nndist() are now generic.
	They have methods for point patterns (objects of class "ppp")
	and a default method (for vectors of x, y coordinates).

BUGS

	[1] update.ppm ignored the argument use.gam.
	Fixed.

	[2] anova.ppm did not always handle the uniform Poisson model
	correctly. Fixed, we think.

INTERNAL CHANGES

	The following changes should have no effect on the user:

	1. ppm() and update.ppm() now have an additional argument
	called 'forcefit'.

	2. predict.ppm and fitted.ppm have been modified internally.