Changes in version 0.2.0 (2025-02-13) - Removed dependency on the sparsevar package by incorporating the necessary functions directly. - Modified fitVAR to specifically implement elastic net penalty (penalty = "ENET") and cross validation (method = "cv"). - Changed package license from MIT to GPL-2 because GPL-2 licensed code from the sparsevar package was incorporated. - Updated documentation and attribution to reflect these changes. Changes in version 0.1.0 (2025-01-09) - Initial CRAN submission.