prepare for release

.Rbuildignore

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 ^profiling$
 ^clean\.sh$
 ^test\.R$
+^benchmarks$

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: fastpos
 Type: Package
 Title: Finds the Critical Sequential Point of Stability for a Pearson Correlation
-Version: 0.5.0.9000
-Date: 2022-08-10
+Version: 0.5.1
+Date: 2022-08-15
 Authors@R: person("Johannes", "Titz", email = "johannes.titz@gmail.com",
   role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1102-5719"))
 Description: Finds the critical sample size ("critical point of stability") for a 

NEWS.md

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-# 
+# fastpos 0.5.1
 
-# 0.5.0
+* fix problem with multicore support, now correct functions are used from pbmcapply
+* add info in documentation and warning that on Windows only 1 core is used
+* add toc to readme
+
+# fastpos 0.5.0
 
 * improve multicore support, pbapply is now used to split up the calculation of points of stability; this is much faster than with futures but does not work on Windows
 * give the option to set the corridor manually via lower_limit and upper_limit, which will override precision parameters

cran-comments.md

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-This is a new release.
+This is a patch release to fix a problem in the multicore support, which was introduced in the last release (0.5.0), 5 days ago.
 
 ## Test environments
 * local Debian GNU/Linux install, R 4.2.1
 * win-builder (devel, release)
 * github actions macOS-latest (release), window-latest (release), ubuntu-latest (devel, release), ubuntu-latest (oldrel-1)
 
 ## R CMD check results
-There were no ERRORs, WARNINGs or NOTES
+There were no ERRORs or WARNINGs.
+
+There was one NOTE on win-release and win-devel: "Days since last update: 5"
+
+I am aware that packages should be updated only every couple of months. Unfortunately, a problem was introduced in the last release regarding multicore support. Version 0.5.1 fixes this problem.
 
 ## Downstream dependencies
 There are no downstream dependencies