v1.1.4

RMAVIS 1.1.4 (11-09-2025)

• Modifications: NA
• Fixes:
  • Ensuring presence cover values (+) are handled correctly during the composition of floristic tables, calculation of diversity indices, and calculation of EIVs.
• New Features: NA

v1.1.3

RMAVIS 1.1.3 (29-07-2025)

• Modifications: NA
• Fixes:
  • Ensuring order of execution for NVC assignment is correct, i.e. floristic tables must be composed and not NULL before group similarity calculations.
• New Features: NA

v1.1.2

RMAVIS 1.1.2 (28-07-2025)

• Modifications: NA
• Fixes:
  • Adding UKVegTB v0.1.2 as a remote dependency in the Description file.
• New Features: NA

v1.1.1

RMAVIS 1.1.1 (28-07-2025)

• Modifications:
  • Adding argument 'factor_constancy' to RMAVIS::composeSyntopicTables which controls whether the constancy column is returned as a factor or not.
• Fixes:
  • Updating examples to reflect new bundled object column names.
  • Fixing duplicate taxa in Calthion floristic tables.
• New Features: NA

v1.1.0

RMAVIS 1.1.0 (27-07-2025)

• Modifications:
  • Changing the minimum number of plots per group for Czekanowski similarity
    calculations to 2.
  • Removing the ability to toggle the inclusion/exclusion of bryophyte taxa.
  • Tidying the names and order of the RMAVIS results .xlsx download.
  • Changing "National Reference Spaces" option in the MVA module to
    "Reference Spaces" and altering the module so that the local reference
    ordinations are also linked to this option.
  • Updating the taxonomic backbone to the use version 20250703a of the UKSI (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/uk-species-inventory-simplified-copy). This is accomplished through use of the UKVegTB package.
  • Updating the habitat correspondences to incorporate v9.5 of the JNCC habitat correspondences.
  • Separating the data entry modules into their own section "Data Entry".
  • Reducing the number of pseudo-quadrats to improve the speed of RMAVIS::similarityJaccard.
  • Re-organising bundled constants.
  • Re-creating the NVC datasets using the original MS Access database.
• Fixes:
  • Fixing the issue where plots with one taxon can't be matched using RMAVIS::similarityJaccard.
• New Features:
  • Adding a new tab - "Additional Information".
  • Adding a new object RMAVIS::broad_habitat_indicators which is used in the function RMAVIS::match_broad_habitats to identify broad habitats.
  • Expanding the contents of the NVC Lookup (now called NVC Information) tab.
  • Adding the ability to select any combination of the original, SOWG, and/or Calthion NVC communities.
  • Adding the ability to filter taxa which occur at a frequency of less than 5% from the survey data.
  • Now displaying the number of plots, the minimum, mean, and maximum species richness, the total number of species,
    and community-mean Hill-Ellenberg values for each floristic table composed from the survey data vs each NVC community floristic table.

v1.0.1

RMAVIS 1.0.1 (2024-08-08)

• Modifications: NA
• Fixes:
  • Removing superfluous file - "./app.R".
  • Ensuring all internal constants are prefixed in "surveyData_server.R".
• New Features:
  • Adding deployment helper file "./deploy.R".
  • Adding reference to published JOSS paper and updating "CITATION.cff" file.

v1.0

RMAVIS 1.0 (2024-07-02)

• Modifications:
  • Updating README to include instructions on installing a LaTeX distribution using {tinytex}.
  • Removing Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml as they are currently superfluous.
  • Bundling app files into ./inst/app
• Fixes:
  • Streamlining dependencies, see the imports listed in DESCRIPTION and packages loaded in
    ./inst/app/app.R
• New Features:
  • Adding News section.
  • Adding function to run app - RMAVIS::runApp().
  • Adding contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md.

v0.9998

RMAVIS 0.9998 (2024-05-22)

• Modifications:
  • Improving the README and including it in the home page of the app.
  • Adding ability to close modal popups by clicking outside the modal.
  • Transferring repository to NERC-CEH organisation.
  • Setting documentation iframe to 85vh.
  • Removing BRC_old and BRC_new from RMAVIS::concordance as it is currently incomplete.
  • Changing names in RMAVIS::concordance: "assignNVCName" -> "originalTaxonName"
    and "proposedSpecies" -> "rmavisTaxonName".
  • Updating JOSS paper to reflect the addition of the Alage taxa present
    in SM1.
  • Moving Options sidebar to application nav_panel only.
• Fixes:
  • Fixing issue where changing the cover scale does not trigger re-validation.
• New Features: NA

v0.9997

RMAVIS 0.9997 (2024-05-06)

• Modifications:
  • Updating minimum R version to R 4.4 to address security concerns. Note
    that R 4.4.0 does not actually fix this, see here: https://aitap.github.io/2024/05/02/unserialize.html
• Fixes: NA
• New Features: NA

v0.9996

RMAVIS 0.9996 (2024-04-30)

• Modifications:
  • Adding package dependency references to JOSS paper.
  • Removing {janitor} dependency.
  • Changing MVA option "Survey Quadrat Change" to "Trajectory".
  • Ensuring accepted species are sorted alphabetically.
  • Moving to NBN Tracheophyta and Pteridophyta child taxa for vascular plants
    to align with bryophytes and provide a single taxonomic backbone.
• Fixes:
  • Ensuring author information in DESCRIPTION file are all separated by commas.
• New Features: NA