Changes in version 1.4 o CRAN Release version, with final submission of manuscript o Added minque for initial vc estimates o Update summary method and vignette o Add help file for `vcexample` data o Now suggests: rmarkdown and testthat o Address check issue with cpp if() statement o converted test suite to testthat to allow for numeric differences less than 1e-10 on other cran platforms Changes in version 1.0 o Original version, pre-release o Penalized Variance Component Analyses with continuous response. Creates S3 class object 'vcpen' with summary method o Vignette that demonstrates usage with linear kernel and 100 subjects