Changes in version 0.1.0 (2026-10-28)                  

New Features

  - Initial CRAN release
  - Full support for DELTA character list files
  - Full support for DELTA item description files
  - Support for DELTA specifications files
  - Rcpp-based C++ integration for high performance
  - Comprehensive R interface with data frames and lists
  - Search and matching functionality for taxonomic identification

Data Import

  - load_delta() - Load DELTA files into R
  - Support for both required (chars, items) and optional (specs) files

Data Exploration

  - characters_df() - View character definitions as data frame
  - items_df() - View item information as data frame
  - get_item() - Retrieve complete item data

Search and Analysis

  - find_matching_items() - Find items matching character values
  - item_matches() - Test if an item matches specific values

Utility Functions

  - parse_attribute() - Parse DELTA attribute strings
  - strip_comments() - Remove DELTA comments
  - delta_char_types() - Get character type constants

Example Data

  - Viola (Viola spp.) dataset
  - Grass (Poaceae) dataset

Acknowledgements

Based on the tDelta C++ library by Denis Ziegler, part of the Free DELTA
project.