Merge in Perry fixes to NEWS.

Author: paciorek

packages/nimble/inst/NEWS.md

@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@
   better mixing when parameter are on different scales or the initial
   proposal scale is too large (PR #1492).
 
-- Improve Laplace/AGHQ approximation in various ways, including use of
-  nlminb for both inner and outer optimization (for better
-  optimization performance), improving messaging and output naming,
-  returning the log-likelihood and degrees of freedom for model selection
-  calculations, and unifying control of optimization method and
-  control at the build stage and through `updateSettings` (PR #1496).
+- Improve Laplace/AGHQ implementation in various ways, including use 
+  of nlminb for both inner and outer optimization (for better
+  optimization performance), improved messaging and output naming,
+  returning the log-likelihood and degrees of freedom for model 
+  selection calculations, and unified control of optimization method and
+  other controls at either the build stage or through the `updateSettings` 
+  method (PR #1496).
 
-- Add BOBYQA as an optimization method available through `nimOptim`
-  (PR #1496).
+- Add BOBYQA as an optimization method available through `nimOptim`, 
+  registered via `nimOptimMethod` (PR #1496).
 
 - Prevent use of nimbleFunction method names and nimbleFunction
   names that conflict with names in the nimble language (DSL) (PRs #1517
@@ -48,12 +49,12 @@
 
 ## BUG FIXES
 
-- Fix bug in caching values in `sampler_CRP` when maximum number of 
-  clusters exceeded that would cause incorrect sampling (albeit with the
-  user having been warned that they should increase the maximum number
+- Fix bug in caching values in `sampler_CRP` when maximum number of
+  clusters is exceeded, which would have caused incorrect sampling (albeit 
+  with the user having been warned that they should increase the maximum number
   of clusters) (PR #1513).
 
-- Fix issue preventing use of nimbleList elements in with `nimCat` (PR
+- Fix issue preventing use of nimbleList elements in `nimCat` (PR
   #1518).
 
 - Prevent adaptation interval of one for various block samplers for
@@ -69,11 +70,10 @@
   which are partially observed (whose elements are partially but not
   entirely data) (PR #1489).
 
-- Turn of the use of `--preclean` during C++ compilation when
+- Turn off the use of `--preclean` during C++ compilation when
   `nimbleExternalCall` is invoked to avoid removing .o files that
   might have been created by `Rcpp` (PR #1520).
 
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