NEWS

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palettephines 0.1.3 (2026-04-24)

Documentation and Standards

• Enhanced Scientific Grounding: Added canonical links to biological reference monographs for the BBCH-scale and Reef Health Index.
• Acronym Expansion: Expanded all technical acronyms in the package description to ensure clarity for non-domain experts.
• Formal Return Values: Added @return tags to all exported functions, detailing output class and the biological meaning of the resulting data/graphics.

Internal Improvements

• State Mapping: Improved cite_phines() to provide more descriptive character strings combining common names and scientific codes.
• Namespace Safety: Updated all examples and vignettes to respect user graphical parameters (par) by ensuring they are captured and reset after use.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved length mismatch errors in spatial data processing workflows.
• Updated internal metadata to align perfectly with the latest agricultural maturity stages.