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@@ -34,57 +34,41 @@ To use the R s2dverification functions, open an R session and load the package w
 ```r
 library(s2dverification)
 ``` 
+ or, if you want to avoid collision of s2dverification function names with function names of other R packages in use in your session, with the command
+
+```r
+requireNamespace('s2dverification', quiet = TRUE)
+```
+
+If you use the second option, you must call the functions in the package as 
+
+```r
+s2dverification::FunctionName() instead of FunctionName()
+```
+
+You can check the list of functions in the package with the command
+
+```r
+help(package = s2dverification)
+```
+After the package is loaded, you can check information of a function with the command
+
+```r
+?FunctionName
+```
+
+You'll see a quick description of the aim of the function, the input arguments, the output variables and contact references in case of questions.
+
+To learn how to use these functions you can start by giving a look at the examples in the documentation pages of each function. For more advanced examples of usage you can run the scripts under the directory 'doc' of the s2dverification package ('inst/doc' in the raw GIT repository). Few arguments need to be specified as explained in the headers inside:
+
+```r
+  plot_timeseries.R
+  plot_maps.R
+```
+
+
 #### [Change log] (change_log)
-\^Version name \^Date \^New features \| \|CFU\_tools \|????-??-?? \| \|
-\|s2dverification 2.0 \|2013-08-02\| · Use of the standard R package
-structure.\\\\ · Use of the google\'s R style guide.\\\\ · Functions
-that involved RClim set of funcions have been kept apartfrom the package
-(AnimVsLTime, BlueRed, PlotMap, ProjMap) as well as the authors.\\\\ ·
-New functions have been added: Alpha, EnoNew, Filter, FitAcfCoef,
-FitAutocor, GenSeries, Spectrum.\\\\ · Extended help. \|
-\|\*s2dverification 2.1 \|2014-01-23 \| · Demo scripts
-\'plot\_timeseries.R\' and \'plot\_maps.R\' available in the
-\'inst/doc\' directory in the s2dverification repository.\\\\ ·
-Documentation on how to specify the grids and masks to the function
-Load() has been added to its help page, code and package manual. \|
-\|\*s2dverification 2.1.1 \|2014-06-27 \| · Important bugfixes in
-Clim(), and other bugfixes in Season(), Smoothing() and
-Plot2VarsVsLTime().\\\\ · Bugs with the new version of CDO have been
-fixed.\\\\ · Package is under licence GPLv3.\\\\ · Example datasets and
-code for each function have been added. \| \|s2dverification 2.1.2
-\|2014-07-09 \| · Bugfix in CDO calls. \| \|s2dverification 2.2.0
-\|2014-12-16 \| · ACC provides confidence intervals obtained with
-bootstrap method\\\\ · Function to plot ACC score\\\\ · Function to plot
-variables on a polar stereographic projection\\\\ · Possibility of
-loading observations only\\\\ · Possibility to load more ice
-variables\\\\ · Adjustable significance level in the Corr function\\\\ ·
-Adjustable number size in ColorBar \| \|s2dverification 2.3.0
-\|2015-03-02 \| · Configuration file mechanism to specify new dataset or
-variable paths, grids, etc.\\\\ · New parameters in Load() to specify
-maximum and minimum values.\\\\ · New supported dataset formats. See
-\'?Load\' in R after loading s2dverification for more information.\\\\ ·
-More efficient memory usage in Load() and usage of multiple parallel
-processes (faster).\\\\ · NetCDF4 + OPeNDAP support \| \|s2dverification
-2.3.1 \|2015-03-09 \| · Loading observations only fixed\\\\ · Loading
-only one leadtime fixed\\\\ · Loading a 2D variable when the first
-observation was not stored in file-per-dataset format fixed\\\\ ·
-Parameter \'ncores\' changed to \'nprocs\'\\\\ · Improvements in
-configuration file mechanism and documentation \| \|s2dverification
-2.3.2 \|2015-04-23 \| · New CRPS() function to compute the continuous
-ranked probability score for ensemble forecasts.\\\\ · New ProbBins()
-function to compute probabilistic information of a forecast relative to
-a threshold or a quantile.\\\\ · Load() stops and warns if the masks
-provided are not in the correct grid.\\\\ · Load() didn\'t apply, as
-expected, the same masks in observations as in experiments when
-possible. Now fixed.\\\\ · Enhancement in Clim() documentation.\\\\ ·
-Enhancements in Load() and configuration file documentation.\\\\ ·
-HadSLP dataset is now loadable \| \|\*s2dverification 2.4.0 \|2015-07-27
-\| · Option to draw rectangles in PlotEquiMap()\\\\ · Motification of
-Corr() to accomodate ranked correlation\\\\ · Added the possibility to
-load
-
-
-*This release is also available on CRAN
+
 #### [User manual] (user_manual)
 The user manual can be downloaded from [CRAN]([pdf] (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s2dverification/s2dverification.pdf)).