Bump version, add News file to track changes

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: plant
 Title: A package for modelling forest trait ecology and evolution
-Version: 1.0.0
+Version: 1.1.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Daniel", "Falster", , "[email protected]", c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Richard", "FitzJohn", , "", c("aut")))

NEWS.md

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+## Plant 1.1.0  Release Notes
+
+v1.1.0 was released on 2/02/2018
+
+### Major Changes
+
+- Now compiles and runs on Windows machines (requires R 3.3.0 or newer)
+- Further details on installation 
+- Enable assembly_parameters to accept more named arguments 
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+- Add Appveyor for build tests on Windows machines
+- Update tests to use latest version of testthat
+- Remove package traitecoevo/callr, previously used to make system calls  
+- Makefile: Add roxygen and RcppR6 to compile target 
+- roxygen & Rcpp updates
+- Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.
+
+A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Gihtub: [v1.0.0...v1.1.0](https://github.com/traitecoevo/plant/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)
+
+____________________________________________________________________________________
+
+## Plant 1.0.0 Release Notes
+
+v1.0.0 was released on 23/02/2016
+
+This version corresponds to the paper describing the package:
+
+Falster, DS, RG FitzJohn, Å Brännström, U Dieckmann, M Westoby (2016) plant: A package for modelling forest trait ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 136-146, doi: [10.1111/2041-210X.12525](http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12525)
+
+A full account of changes from the previous version is available on Gihtub: [v0.2.2...v1.0.0](https://github.com/traitecoevo/plant/compare/v0.2.2...v1.0.0)
+
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+
+## Plant 0.2.2 Release Notes
+
+v0.2.2 was released on 1/06/2015
+
+Draft paper about package submitted to Methods in Ecology & Evolution.
+
+### Major changes
+
+First stable release of advanced implementation of plant
+
+