tidytacos version 0.3.0

This is the official release of version 0.3.0 of the tidyamplicons package, now renamed to tidytacos! 🌮 🎉 🌮

This version constitutes a major update of the entire package, with many breaking changes. In addition, the package has been renamed to tidytacos (tidy TAxonomic COmpositionS). The package was originally developed by Stijn Wittouck at the Lebeer Lab, but fellow lab members Tim Van Rillaer and Wenke Smets joined the developer team. Together, we streamlined the package, created better documentation and implemented more features. For this reason, in addition to the name change, the package has been moved to the GitHub profile of the Lebeer Lab.

For people familiar with tidyamplicons: the names of some functions, arguments, tables and column names have changed. A notable example is the "abundances" table, which was renamed to "counts". Similarly, the "abundance" column name was renamed to "count". Many similar changes were implemented to make names clearer and more consistent. In addition, many redundant functions were removed. An overview of all tidytacos functions can be found here. Finally, we want to emphasize that tidytacos still follows the familiar tidy philosophy of the tidyverse and tidyamplicons, and no features have been removed.

If you find bugs or have suggestions for new features, don't hesitate to post issues!

For new users of the package, but also for people familiar with tidyamplicons, we recommend to checkout the quick start guide in our brand new wiki.

Have fun diving into your favorite microbial communities!