
BIEN 1.1.1
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## NEW FEATURES
* Added ability to retrieve trait data citations through BIEN_metadata_citation.
* Added ability to exclude known introduced species
* Added option to return additional data pertaining to collection and identification
* Added ability to download readable citation information for trait data.
* Added a new vignette tutorial, "BIEN_tutorial", which walks users through some of the functions
* Functions that query by political name can now utilize shorthand codes from geonames.org

## OTHER NEWS
* Trait data was increased by nearly an order of magnitude
* We currently have nearly 1 million trait records (25 million if you include height and diameter data from plots)
* Trait units and names have been standardized
* Functions names containing "...shapefile" have been changed to "...spatialpolygons" to make the names more accurate
* The `shapefile` arguments have been renamed `spatialpolygons`, again for increased accuracy

##BUG FIXES
* Fixed issue with BIEN_occurrence_shapefile()
* Updated test structure to comply with standard practices
* Modified function documentation to use templates

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BIEN 1.1.0
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## NEW FEATURES

* Added BIEN_stem_family
* Added BIEN_stem_genus
* Added BIEN_ranges_list
* Can now use BIEN_occurrences_records_per_species to get a count of records for specified species
* Added BIEN_metadata_citation

## OTHER NEWS

* Added testing via "testthat" package
* Made .BIEN_sql an internal function
* Updated BIEN_trait functions to use new agg_traits schema
* Added many more traits to the database.
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BIEN 1.0.0
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## NEW FEATURES

* released to CRAN