reporting: add xTicks argument
reporting: fix if statement for changes in dynDates/dates class
 Add a second output argument to CheckPath nonzero iff the routine creates a new directory.
Fixed bug.
Renamed tests/run_unitary_tests.m script to avoid conflict with matlab/utilities/tests/run_unitary_tests.m function.
Fix bug in method disp of dseries.
Fix treatment of error conditions in bytecode.
reporting: bug fix: avoid underscores altogether
reporting: bug fix: Windows can't handle windows-style file separators in latex
Added @dseries/abs method. Returns the absolute value of a dseries object.
Added @dates/ne method. Overloads the ~= operator.
Merge pull request #565 from JohannesPfeifer/master

Initialize stock1_filter_step_ahead to prevent crash in Octave
Reduced the dimension of the problem in the unitary test for cycle_reduction and logarithmic_reduction routines.
Renamed tests/ep/linear.mod as tests/ep/linearmodel.mod to avoid conflict with matlab's system identification toolbox.
Bug fix (max function not yet implemented for dseries objects).
Fix bug introduced in 8b1e76a1bfcca7908ad78efebde6dfb1480da4cd.

The unitary tests file was renamed, but his output file wasn't.
Fix test/Makefile.am following 8f8bfe6c.
Update README.md
Remove spurious executable permission
Minor fix to release announcement.