Changes in version 0.5.6 (2025-08-20)                  

  - Added option timeout argument to downloading and indexing functions.

  - Bug fixes in memosation

                 Changes in version 0.5.4 (2024-10-06)                  

  - increased stability when universalFQA fails.

  - improvements to documentation and testing

                 Changes in version 0.5.1 (2024-01-11)                  

  - 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

                 Changes in version 0.4.3 (2023-10-09)                  

  - Additional improvements for API failures

                 Changes in version 0.4.1 (2023-08-28)                  

  - 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

                 Changes in version 0.4.0 (2023-08-15)                  

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.

                 Changes in version 0.3.0 (2023-01-21)                  

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).

                 Changes in version 0.2.1 (2022-08-23)                  

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