NEWS

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hillR 0.5.0 (2020-07-07)

• Skip tests that used vegetarian package, which was off CRAN.
• hill_phylo has an argument return_dt now, so that users can decide whether to return the Phylogenetic Hill numbers Dt, default is FALSE.

• hill_phylo set of functions are now much faster after getting rid of ade4::newick2phylog().
• Replaced all . in arguments with _ to standardize styles.
• hill_phylo_parti_pairwise now calculate the node/tips by site matrix first to speed things up.
• Added progress bar to all hill_xxx_parti_pairwise functions with .progress argument, which can be set to FALSE to turn it off.

hillR 0.3.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• hill_func and hill_func_parti no longer standardize distance matrix to have max value of 1 by default.
  • set stand_dij = TRUE if want to do so.
• hill_func_parti function now reports site similarity instead of dissimilarity, to be consistent with the hill_taxa_parti functions. Make sure to change your interpretations.
• Added hill_phylo functions.