Changes in version 31.07.2024                      

  - 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

                     Changes in version 29.11.2025                      

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.

                     Changes in version 19.09.2025                      

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

                     Changes in version 10.03.2026                      

Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes

  - Documentation for data sets BTsubset_data and BTsubset_meta was
    improved.
  - Figures in the vignette were invisible.

                     Changes in version 10.02.2026                      

Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes

  - getLinearRegressions() now handles data from getMetrics() with
    several resamplings.
  - getMetrics() and getLinearRegressions() now work without resamplings
    allowing users to run them on their own data.
  - vignette YAML frontmatter fixed.

                     Changes in version 06.06.2025                      

  - Data update matching structure from BioTIME v2.0.

                     Changes in version 03.04.2024                      

  - Initial CRAN submission.

                 Changes in version 0.2.6 (2025-10-15)                  

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