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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.5.2
				Released 4 April 2026
				
				
-- Fixed bug in `tclust` that duplicates some sequence pair distances when clustering threshold is small.
-- Fixed URLs in `stats.BOLD.R`, `search.BOLD.R`, `read.BOLD.R` to use https.

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.5.1
				Released 29 April 2025
				
				
-- Fixed CRAN refman links - package anchors for all Rd \link{} targets added
-- Improved DESCRIPTION and CITATION

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.5.0
				Released 15 February 2018
				
				
-- Moved from R-Forge (https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/spider/).
-- Now at Github (https://github.com/boopsboops/spider).
-- Package maintainer now Rupert A. Collins.
-- Now using Roxygen documentation (Rd source now in R functions).
-- Fixes to broken man pages.
-- Imported package functions now explicitly called using 'importFrom' and automatically added to namespace.
-- Added the testthat infrastructure.
-- Functions `read.BOLD`, `search.BOLD`, and `stats.BOLD` have been deprecated in favour of using the better functions in the rOpenSci 'bold' package.
-- Function `read.GB` has been deprecated in favour of using the better functions in the 'rentrez', 'traits', and 'ape' packages.

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.4-2
				Released 13 May 2017
				
				
-- Extra options added to heatmapSpp. Option of showing the data on the heatmap now available.
-- Bug fix for seqStat

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.4-1
				Released 5 July 2016
				
				
-- External functions imported in NAMESPACE
-- Minor change to nucDiag help file

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.4-0
				Released 20 June 2016
				
				
-- Bugs in heatmapSpp and plot.ordinDNA fixed
-- New option "names" added for bestCloseMatch and threshID
-- New functions: rnucDiag, blockAlignment, and minInDist

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.3-0
				Released 25 December 2013
				

-- read.GB: Space removed from around the pipe in the default naming scheme.
-- chaoHaplo: 95% confidence interval calculated around the estimated number of haplotypes.
-- New functions: cgraph, ordinDNA and plot.ordinDNA
-- namespace issues resolved

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.2-0
				Released 17 November 2012
				

-- Functions added: heatmapSpp
-- read.BOLD: Function completely rewritten to compensate for BOLD deprecating their eFetch system

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-5
				Released 11 October 2012
				

-- monophyly: Code changed from calling the ape C routine "bipartition" directly, to using prop.part()
-- monophylyBoot: Code changed from calling the ape C routine "bipartition" directly, to using prop.part()
-- tree.comp: Code changed from calling the ape C routine "bipartition" directly, to using prop.part()

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-4
				Released 17 June 2012
				

-- sarkar: The addition of a dataset containing the dummy sequences published in Sarkar et al to illustrate the different categories of diagnostic nucleotides.

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-3
				Released 29 March 2012
				

-- rankSlidWin: bug fixed that caused an error when multiple names were given to "criteria"

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-2
				Released 10 March 2012
				

-- read.GB: modified to work with eFetch version 2.0 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/)
-- read.BOLD: help file updated
-- search.BOLD: Modified to work with BOLDsystems v 3.0
-- Functions added: stats.BOLD

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-1
				Released 27 November 2011
				

-- tiporder: "labels" option added to toggle between returning the labels (when "labels"=TRUE), or returning the indices (when "labels"=FALSE).

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                                SPIDER VERSION 1.1-0
				Released 6 November 2011

-- Initial release onto CRAN
-- No known issues

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