Changes in version 1.2.4 (2025-09-24)                  

  - Added extra fail-safe to examples
      - Improved test coverage
      - Fix for new stringr release

                 Changes in version 1.2.2 (2025-08-19)                  

  - Added Code of Conduct
      - Improved documentation
      - Improved test coverage
      - Fixed checks such they will pass even when EPA is temporary
        offline

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2025-04-08)                  

  - Improved test coverage
      - Fixed error in units conversion

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2025-03-21)                  

  - Added data sanitisers process_ecotox_numerics(),
    as_numeric_ecotox(), process_ecotox_units(), as_unit_ecotox(),
    process_ecotox_dates() and as_date_ecotox()
      - Expanded the documentation with vignettes
      - Fixed check upon attach
      - Correction in database specifications
      - Improved test coverage
      - Tested against 2025-03-13 release of ECOTOX

                 Changes in version 1.1.1 (2024-09-20)                  

  - Added pkgdown generated website
      - Updated documentation
      - Updated database specifications for 2024-09-12 release of ECOTOX

                 Changes in version 1.0.9 (2024-01-08)                  

  - switched from the 'magrittr' pipe operator (%>%) to R's native pipe
    operator (|>)
      - switched from 'httr' to 'httr2' dependency
      - Added functions to check the local build and its version
      - Fix in database build routine
      - Fix in manual to pass CRAN checks
      - Explicit mentioning of required versions of dependencies

                 Changes in version 1.0.5 (2023-10-09)                  

  - Added verify_ssl argument to online functions in order to make it
    easier to try and avert failing certificate checks.
      - Minor fix in CAS handlers

                 Changes in version 1.0.3 (2023-08-21)                  

  - Adjustments to pass latest CRAN checks

                 Changes in version 1.0.2 (2023-06-18)                  

  - Fixes for 2023 June release of the database:
      - Handling of new fields and tables introduced in the new release.
      - Better handler unintended line-feed characters in source
        material, when building SQLite file.
      - When table primary key is not unique, update table with latest
        occurrence of the key. This is also reported to EPA.
      - Keeping track of missing tables and fields, and occurrence of
        unexpected fields while building. These are added to the build
        log file.

                 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2023-01-08)                  

  - Experimental features for online searching of ECOTOX and CompTox
      - Switched to roxygen2md for documentation and markdown format for
        NEWS
      - Added life-cycle badges
      - Some minor fixes in the SQLite building routine after the
        December 2022 release of ECOTOX

                 Changes in version 0.2.0 (2022-11-17)                  

  - Major changes:
      - Modified searching routines to make advantage of the sql parser
        and optimisers implemented in the package 'dplyr'. Performance
        (i.e. speed) of the search routines have improved considerably.
      - Added support for handling Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
        numbers.
      - Several minor adjustments and corrections to code and manual.
        These include fixes to address notes from CRAN checks.

                 Changes in version 0.1.1 (2021-10-05)                  

  - Updates to DESCRIPTION file and manual in order to comply with CRAN
    policies.
      - Function progress reports are now shown with 'message' instead
        of 'cat', such that they can be suppressed.

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - Initial release which can:
      - Download raw ECOTOX database tables from the EPA website
      - Build an SQLite database from those files
      - Search and extract data from the created local database