Changes in version 2.0.6                        

Bug fixes

  - Correction to fractional_cover function to avoid some sites
    returning no data when called individually rather than in a set of
    surveys.

                 Changes in version 2.0.5 (2023-11-17)                  

Bug fixes

  - Updated extraction process for large veg.PI table to avoid rows
    dropping out.

                        Changes in version 2.0.0                        

Breaking changes

  - Default data download in get_ausplots now only includes $site.info
    table (and not vegetation point intercept - $veg.PI - nor vegetation
    vouchers - $veg.vouch as per previous default) due to increasing
    size of the dataset. Users can still select to extract vegetation
    point-intercept or vouchers as well as all the other modules
    available in ausplotsR. All downloaded data objects include a data
    $citation.

  - Consistent implementation of logical arguments in functions, meaning
    some existing calls using character strings as selections will no
    longer work.

New features and data

  - New and improved name standardisation fields according to the
    Australian Plant Census and Australian Plant Name Index. Original
    herbarium determinations remain available.

  - Filter site downloads in get_ausplots based on unique site/visit
    codes as well as partial code match/wildcard feature. Previously,
    only the site_location_name code could be used to filter by text
    match.

  - Improved handling and interpretation of revisit data:
    
      - Survey visit dates are now presented as R-readable dates in the
        $visit_date column and the sites table is appended with revisit
        numbers for each plot (i.e., 1, 2, 3 and so on) to simplify
        identification of revisits and their chronological order in
        column $visit_number.
      - Visualisation of vegetation change (species composition,
        diversity or input community indices) along a sequence of visits
        to a plot with new function ausplots_trajectory.

  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

Minor improvements

  - Updated basal area calculations where per species values are
    requested in 'basal_area' to better reflect whole site species means
    (sum of species means = site mean).

Bug fixes

  - Corrected plot order in ausplots_visual. Some plots and sets of
    visits had missing calculations that upset order and formatting of
    plots. This has been corrected.

  - Various minor corrections to avoid nuisance messages.

Installation

  - Package tested for compatibility with R v4 as it was originally
    built in v3.

  - Adjustments to required package imports.