Changes in Version 0.1-4 o Added YouthGratitude data from Froh, Fan, Emmons, Bono, Huebner, Watkins (2011, PA), provided by Jeff Froh and Jinyan Fan. Some approximate replication code is provided in the examples (the parts depending on lavaan are in \dontrun). Changes in Version 0.1-3 o Fully exported elementary_symmetric_functions(). (An extended C implementation is under development and will be included in future releases.) Changes in Version 0.1-2 o Support of non-integer weights in btReg.fit(). To facilitate this, summary.paircomp() gained a weights argument so that optionally the weights are aggregated instead of observations counted. o Actually pass on nlm() arguments from RaschModel.fit(). Also support iterlim = 0, i.e., set up model at pre-specified parameters. o Added StereotypeThreat data from Wicherts, Conor, Hessen (2005, JPSP), provided by Jelte M. Wicherts. Replication code is provided in the examples (the parts depending on lavaan are in \dontrun). Changes in Version 0.1-1 o New "psychotools" package containing all 'base' infrastructure previously contained in "psychotree". This is in order to provide both methods and data that can be reused by "psychotree" and the new package "psychomix" (as well as potentially further packages). o Classes: "paircomp" and associated methods. o Models: btReg.fit() and RaschModel.fit() and associated methods. o Data: Firstnames, GermanParties2009, Soundquality (previoulsy in psychotree) and VerbalAggression (new data, contained in other formatting in difR/verbal and lme4/VerbAgg).