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RIFanalysis 0.9.3 (2026-09-11)

Made the power-law reference test portable to R builds without long-double support by allowing the observed one-unit difference in the final decimal of the bootstrap alpha standard deviation. This change affects only the test tolerance; the statistical implementation is unchanged.
Reduced the number of bootstrap simulations in the executable rif_compute() documentation example from 50 to 10, keeping the example representative while providing sufficient margin below CRAN's requested five-second execution limit.

Added a namespace-safe, reproducible manual bootstrap engine and made it the default across the fitting and workflow APIs.
Deprecated bootstrap_engine = "poweRlaw" and engine = "poweRlaw"; these options are retained for compatibility and are planned for removal in version 1.0.0.
Standardized the Z1, Z2, and Z3 workflow arguments on save_plots and plot_dpi.
Deprecated the Z3 arguments save and dpi in favor of save_plots and plot_dpi; the aliases are planned for removal in version 1.0.0.
Updated the Z3 workflow so that plots are not saved by default (save_plots = FALSE) and renamed its plot export argument from formats to plot_formats, consistently with the Z1 and Z2 workflows.
Increased the default PNG export resolution to 600 DPI.
Added complete Excel exports for power-law analyses. When Z2 is run from prepared data, it now produces an analysis workbook for each input group containing the original data, MLE-KS estimates, bootstrap results and p-values, the combined MLE-KS/bootstrap summary, and the individual bootstrap simulations.
Extended and tested these Excel exports for datasets both with a single default type and with multiple values in the Type variable; bootstrap simulations from multi-type analyses are identified by type in the exported workbook.
Made the package vignettes self-contained by using the example datasets distributed with the package.
Normalized the multi-type example data to portable ASCII text.