NEWS.md

In fqar: Floristic Quality Assessment Tools for R

fqar 0.5.5

• Added option timeout argument to downloading and indexing functions

fqar 0.5.2 - 0.5.4

• increased stability when universalFQA fails.

• improvements to documentation and testing

fqar 0.5.1

• New database_glance() function provides summary information about species included in a specified database.

• Internal improvements to unit testing and error handling.

• Improvements to examples in documentation files

fqar 0.4.2 & 0.4.3

• Additional improvements for API failures

fqar 0.4.1

• Fixed non-ascii character in the chicago data set

• Fixed bug that caused progress bars to appear in non-interactive calls

• Improved responses to API failure

fqar 0.4.0

New features

• New transect_subplot_inventories function for extracting species data from quadrat-level data in transect inventories.

• New function transect_list_inventory for extracting multiple transect-level species inventories simultaneously.

Other improvements

• Improvements to assessment_cooccurrence and assessment_cooccurrence_summary which now treat species with the same name but different C-values as distinct.

fqar 0.3.0

New features

• New functions for extracting species information from databases: species_acronym, species_c, species_common_name, species_phys, and species_w.
• New functions extract information from databases: database_glance and database_inventory.
• New tools for analyzing species co-occurrence: assessment_cooccurrence, assessment_cooccurrence_summary, species_profile, and species_profile_plot.

Other improvements

• memoization for all download\_* functions, which generally run slowly due to limitations of the universalfqa.org website.
• all data frame produced now have syntactic column names (for instance, total_mean_c instead of Total Mean C).

fqar 0.2.1

• Major updates and better documentation
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package

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