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Source: NEWS.md

BioTIMEr 0.3.0 - 29.11.2025

CRAN release: 2025-11-28

Major Improvement

  • The package now uses data.table in the background for major speed and memory usage improvements. Resampling the whole BioTIME database used to take > 1 hour and now takes < 1 minute.
  • methods: gridding and resampling functions now handle data.frame, data.table and tibble objects with dedicated functions.
  • getAlphaMetrics and getBetaMetrics are faster and use 100x less memory.

New Features

  • In the resampling function:

    • new argument summarise, TRUE by default keeps previous behaviour.

      If TRUE, the abundance and/or biomass is summed per rarefyID while if FALSE the abundance and/or biomass will be summed per rarefyID/SAMPLE_DESC and gives more columns.

  • In the getAlphaMetrics and getBetaMetrics functions:

  • data.frames containing several resamplings are accepted

    If the provided data contain several resamplings, metrics will be computed per resampling, per assemblageID, per year.

  • In the getLinearRegressions function:

    • removed the divType argument.

      The function now reads the class of the objects produced by getAlphaMetrics and getBetaMetrics and computes the expected metrics.

Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes

  • In the themeBioTIME function:

    • argument lp is soft deprecated in favour of legend.position
    • argument fontSize is soft deprecated in favour of font.size
    • argument colx is soft deprecated in favour of axis.colour
    • argument coly is soft deprecated in favour of strip.background
    • the order of the arguments did not change.

BioTIMEr 0.2.6

CRAN release: 2025-10-15

  • Patch. test modification to adapt to vegan update 2.7-2

BioTIMEr 0.2.5 - 19.09.2025

CRAN release: 2025-09-19

  • Patch. all testthat snapshot tests are now skipped on CRAN and CI.

BioTIMEr 0.2.4 - 06.06.2025

CRAN release: 2025-06-06

  • Data update matching structure from BioTIME v2.0.

BioTIMEr 0.2.3 - 31.07.2024

CRAN release: 2024-07-31

  • Update of the vignette for clarity
  • FIX of the Mac M1 specific issue happening in package dggridR
  • FIX in resampling() to sample without replacement
  • FIX in getLinearRegressions() to correct result dimensions and metric order

BioTIMEr 0.2.2 - 03.04.2024

CRAN release: 2024-04-03

  • Initial CRAN submission.