Merge branch 'master' into 'master'

src/@dates/colon.m

src/@dates/dates.m

src/@dates/subsref.m

src/@dseries/dgrowth.m

src/@dseries/dgrowth_.m

src/@dseries/dseries.m

src/@dseries/hdiff_.m

src/@dseries/hgrowth_.m

src/@dseries/mdiff_.m

src/@dseries/mgrowth_.m

src/@dseries/qdiff_.m

src/@dseries/qgrowth_.m

src/@dseries/subsref.m

src/@dseries/ydiff_.m

src/@dseries/ygrowth_.m

src/initialize_dseries_class.m

src/mdbnomics2dseries/mdbnomics2dseries.m

src/utilities/convert/convert_mdbnomics.m

src/utilities/convert/date2string.m

src/utilities/convert/freq2string.m