change text printed to console and updated NEWS

now skipping time consuming tests on CRAN, fixed bug with url in vign…

…ette, updated version number

prepare new release 1.9-2

Merge pull request #182 from ShimmerEngineering/ASM-351

To parse European date format

version number and date updated

Added function file to repository that helps to check that version nu…

…mber and release date are correct. This eases the package release process

fixed non-canonical URL to package vignette and incremented version n…

…umber

url to jap paper fixed in vignette

new version number

url to jap paper fixed in vignette