NEWS

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PointedSDMs 2.1.4 (2025-08-29)

Changes and fixes since previous version:

• startSpecies update: speciesEnvironment may now take the options: 'community' which estimates a community and species-specific effects, "stack" which estimates species-specific effects or 'shared' which estimates community effects.
• Updates to reflect changes in inlabru.
• Bug fixes across multiple functions.
• Addition of new functions such as assignCovariate and nearestValue to assist with aligning covariate information and observation data.