Merge pull request #49 from Novartis/develop

amend release with corrected NEWS file

Merge pull request #45 from weberse2/issue-prep-release-190

bump release sha

Merge pull request #25 from weberse2/issue-release-1-8-2

release 1.8-2

CRAN 1.8-1

1.8-0 CRAN release

Merge pull request #20 from weberse2/issue-prep-v174

1.7.4 release submit 1

Merge pull request #17 from weberse2/issue-rel-173

1.7-3 release

Merge pull request #15 from weberse2/issue-172

1.7-2 as accepted by CRAN

Merge pull request #13 from weberse2/issue-rel-1-7-1

Release 1.7-1

Merge pull request #11 from weberse2/issue-rel-1-70

CRAN 1.7-0 accepted release