version 0.9.12 01 2024 * CRAN policy cleaning * cwm for community weighted means version 0.9.11.4 Dec 2022 * dies gracefully now if GermanSL server is down * improvements in parcing with taxname.abbr and taxname.removeAuthors version 0.9.10 Dec 2021 - Aug 2022 * taxname.removeAuthors version 0.9.9 Dec 2020 * changed default reference list to GermanSL 1.5 * new function rename.species to switch between taxon id numbers, scientific names and shortletters version 0.9.8 May 2020 * bugs in taxval * removed tree view in child because of orphaned gtkwidgets package version 0.9.7 November 2019 * default GermanSL version changed to 1.4 * tv.readXML changed from XML to xml2 for faster access of huge Turboveg XML files version 0.9.6 March 2019 * better encoding support version 0.9.4 and 5 Oktober 2018 * default directory for GermanSl download changed to concur with CRAN rules * problems with CRAN package checks version 0.9.3 Oktober 2018 * bug fixes * improved taxval version 0.9.2 Oktober 2017 * Bug in taxval when adapting taxonomy with maxtaxlevel * New server address for https://www.vegetweb.de restful API version 0.9.1 August 2017 * Vignette adapted to GermhanSL 1.3.4 * Bug in tv.veg ignoring refl in taxval=TRUE corrected version 0.9 July 2016 * Vignette adapted to GermanSL 1.3.4 * option maxtaxlevel in function taxval now defaults to 'AGG' * added server option to vegetweb functions version 0.8.7 February 2016 * Metadata handling has been changed in Turboveg 2 from tvwin.set to tvwin.dbf version 0.8.6 November 2015 * fixed test incompatibility with GermanSL 1.3.1 version 0.8.5 September 2015 * new functions vw.survey, vw.site and vw.veg to retrieve data from https://www.vegetweb.de. That means we need two new packages jsonlite and httr to access the webservices * new function isc ("indicate site conditions") for mean, median or mode of indicator values or niche levels, function meanTraits is now deprecated version 0.8 September 2015 * function taxval rewritten to allow interactive mode. * options "concept" and "uncertain" removed to simplify the code. * support for GermanSL version 1.3 version 0.7 June 2015 * renamed option "verbose" in function tax to "detailed" * further improvements of tv.write version 0.6.9 Mar 2015 * improved tv.write * adaptations for data evaluation for https://www.vegetweb.de import version 0.6.9 Mar 2015 * added support for Turboveg dictionaries * fixed NA output for tax(y, strict=TRUE) * CRAN policy maintenance version 0.6.7 Oct 2014 * enhanced tv.write function version 0.6.6 Jan 2014 * faster tax function * child and parent now also possible with synonyms * inconsistencies in taxval for regional monotypic taxa fixed * result of taxval will now be written on hard disk by default * Turboveg 2 replaces 100% cover values by "9x", workaround by tv.coverperc implemented version 0.6.5 Nov-2013 * taxname.simplify will eliminate non-stable taxon name parts version 0.6.3 Aug-2013 * improved function print.syntab * improved taxval concerning monotypic taxa * improved locale support version 0.6.2 08-Feb-2013 * Column names of taxonomic dataframes and output from tax() are now changed to Taxon Concept Scheme (TCS) standard, no matter from what source version 0.5.9 17-Nov-2012 * a first prototype to use ESVeg formatted XML vegetation data * function meanTraits calculates mean trait values e.g. (weighted) mean Ellenberg indicator values * minor bug in taxval version 0.5.7 Okt 2012 * function childs now also with synonyms version 0.5.6 22-Mar-2012 * bug in taxval concerning the coarsening of taxonomic levels * slightly improved encoding of vernacular names version 0.5.4 16-Jan-2012 * columns stat and p.value added in syntab if using multipatt * improved function parents version 0.5.3 Jan 2012 * bug in syntab if using cluster vector without levels * function reShape.veg makes observation data frame from vegetation matrix * bug in tv.refl choosing sometimes the wrong automatic reference list version 0.5.1 Okt 2011 * Profiling: Performance of tv.veg, tax and taxval has been improved (a run of tv.veg('elbaue') was around 10 sec and is now 3 sec version 0.5 Okt 2011 * VegetWeb access has been excluded due to installation problems of RMySQl on Windows OS. The code can be reloaded from the internet (see vignette) version 0.4 Sept 2011 * major improvements and bugfixes * new function syn to find the name swarm of a species * new function comb.taxa to manually manipulate species in vegetation frames * updated vignette version 0.3.2 July 2011 * bugs in childs and parents version 0.3.1 June 2011 * bugs concerning the build-in datasets * function tax enhanced * simple abundance transformations included in tv.veg version 0.3 May 2011 * directory permission of extdata changed * Access to the German National Vegetation database "VegetWeb" (http://www.floraweb.de/vegetation) through new functions vw.obs, vw.site and vw.veg (alpha stage!) * New tv.write function to write Turboveg databases * the taxonomic reference list GermanSL has been outsourced, to be downloaded from http://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/germansl.html, if needed * child and parent relationships through new functions child() and parents() * aggregation of taxa in taxval is now possible through all taxonomic ranks, see vignette version 0.2.1 November 2010 * bug in taxval due to changed default syn value in tax corrected * new option pa in tv.coverperc to produce presence/absence vegetation data version 0.2 Sept 2010 * function freqtab replaced by the more powerful function syntab (with optional usage of function multipatt (package indicspecies)) * Turbowin root path (tv_home) is now stored as global R option, see options('tv_home') and investigated during package loading * possible character conversion between encodings for tv.site version 0.1.5 March 2010 * function tv.compRefl rewritten * default values in taxval changed * GermanSL updated to version 1.1.3 version 0.1.1 November 2009 * updated vignette * function metainfo is now called tv.metainfo version 0.1 November 2009 * First CRAN version