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 Package: VineCopula
 Type: Package
 Title: Statistical Inference of Vine Copulas
-Version: 2.5.1
+Version: 2.5.2
 Description: Provides tools for the statistical analysis of regular vine copula 
     models, see Aas et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2007.02.001> and 
     Dissman et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2012.08.010>.
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+VineCopula 2.5.0
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+* add `RVineCDF()` function for cumulative distribution of vine copulas models (#97).
+
 VineCopula 2.5.1
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