RMAVIS v1.0 - 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

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RMAVIS v1.0 - 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

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RMAVIS v1.0 - 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

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RMAVIS v1.0 - 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.

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RMAVIS v1.0 - 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.

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RMAVIS v1.0 - 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.

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