Changes in version 1.1.3 (2019-08-01) + Introduction of the fully rank based extension (netboost(...,robust_PCs=TRUE,filter_method="spearman",method="spearman")). Changes in version 1.1.1 (2019-05-06) + Introduction of Pearson-, Spearman- and Kendall-based filtering. Changes in version 1.0.0 (2019-04-02) + Final submission changes for Bioconductor.