spider v1.5.0

Status

Released 15 February 2018 and available on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=spider.

Admin changes

• Package maintainer now Rupert A. Collins.
• Project fully migrated to GitHub (from r-forge).
• Updated package infrastructure to use devtools, roxygen2, Travis-CI etc.
• Man pages fixed.

Functionality

• 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.

Note

• Source code for previous versions can be found at our old repository hosted at r-forge.