Update description and news.md

Author: mahendra-mariadassou

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: PLNmodels
 Title: Poisson Lognormal Models
-Version: 1.2.0
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Julien", "Chiquet", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "[email protected]",
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3629-3429")),
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ License: GPL (>= 3)
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
-Depends: R (>= 3.4)
+Depends: R (>= 3.6)
 LazyData: true
 biocViews:
 Imports: 

NEWS.md

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+# Current version
+
+* fix use of native pipe to ensure compatibility with R 3.6 (merge PR #125, fix #124)
+
 # PLNmodels 1.2.0 (2024-03-05)
 
 * new feature: ZIPLN (PLN with zero inflation) for standard PLN and PLN Network