Changes in version 0.5.0 (2020-07-07)                  

  - Skip tests that used vegetarian package, which was off CRAN.
  - hill_phylo has an argument return_dt now, so that users can decide
    whether to return the Phylogenetic Hill numbers Dt, default is
    FALSE.

  - hill_phylo set of functions are now much faster after getting rid of
    ade4::newick2phylog().
  - Replaced all . in arguments with _ to standardize styles.
  - hill_phylo_parti_pairwise now calculate the node/tips by site matrix
    first to speed things up.
  - Added progress bar to all hill_xxx_parti_pairwise functions with
    .progress argument, which can be set to FALSE to turn it off.

                        Changes in version 0.3.0                        

  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  - hill_func and hill_func_parti no longer standardize distance matrix
    to have max value of 1 by default.
      - set stand_dij = TRUE if want to do so.
  - hill_func_parti function now reports site similarity instead of
    dissimilarity, to be consistent with the hill_taxa_parti functions.
    Make sure to change your interpretations.
  - Added hill_phylo functions.