Dear all, this message is to inform the community about the activity in our function package repository. During the month of September 2026, one package was updated and a new one was introduced. The new package is "nic_gig", by Mary Mertzanidou and Theodore Panagiotidis. This package is used jointly with the "gig" addon (univariate GARCH models), and lets you plot the "News Impact Curve" for a GARCH model and a GJR model. The updated package is "BreitungCandelonTest" (for frequency-wise Granger causality tests), by Sven Schreiber, which is mostly a bugfix. As usual, download and enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------