NEWS

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bRacatus 1.1.1

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Adapted all functions plotting maps to deal with the sf problem of 'edge crosses edge'

bRacatus 1.1.0

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Adapted all functions using the spatial packages rgdal, rgeos, and maptools to work without these dependencies.

bRacatus 1.0.11 (2022-12-21)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Functions getOcc and signalCalculation now fail gracefully if the internet connection to the database is unavailable.

bRacatus 1.0.10

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Changed authors e-mail, and cleaned code to avoid lines with more than 80 characters.

bRacatus 1.0.9 (2022-09-16)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed bug in function glonafRegions, that were producing errors due to a change in the GIFT database.

bRacatus 1.0.8 (2022-08-10)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed bug in functions rangeMap and biogeoStatus, that were producing errors when no alien range was provided.

bRacatus 1.0.7 (2021-12-08)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed the problem in that was preventing the vignette from being built and causing some tests to fail.

bRacatus 1.0.6 (2021-11-09)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Changed the error message in the functions that use internet resources to an informative message, according to requirements made by CRAN.

bRacatus 1.0.5 (2021-10-21)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• function glonafRegions included in the package to automatically retrieve data from GloNAF database.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fix in the function countryChecklist to allow plotting of the results by function plotRefReg.

bRacatus 1.0.4 (2021-05-28)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Changed the "closeAllConnections()" in signalCalculation function to closing only the connections that were open, according to instructions received from CRAN staff.
  • Fixed bug reported by user in accuracy function.

bRacatus 1.0.3 (2021-04-18)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Function giftRegion, which caused the tests to fail, is now working.

bRacatus 1.0.2 (2021-01-15)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed bugs reported by users

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Edited citations

bRacatus 1.0.1 (2020-12-11)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Reformulated code according to comments from CRAN staff
  • Made the changes suggested by reviewers

bRacatus 1.0.0 (2020-10-13)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added a README.md
  • Added vignette
  • Added NEWS.md
  • Added Travis integration
  • Adapted code to good practice

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Added citation
  • Added CRAN comments
  • Added travis badge to README
  • reformatted code