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
, andstats.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.