Changes in version 1.4.1 (2023-05-08) - Fixed bug in getFlexFile. Changes in version 1.4.0.9000 - Same as previous version. Changes in version 1.4.0 (2022-02-10) - added functions getCPUEAge, getCPUELength, getFlexFile, getLTassessment - fixed bug in catch weights and updated documentation Changes in version 1.3-0 (2019-03-12) - Added function getIndices() to get age based indices of abundance by species, survey and year. - Made all examples 'dontrun' as taking a while due to slow response time of web server. - Added function getIndices() to get age based indices of abundance by species, survey and year. - Made all examples 'dontrun' as taking a while due to slow response time of web server Changes in version 1.2-0 (2017-01-10) - removed dependency on XML and RCurl by using text regex and download.file -> scan. If download.file fails then url() is used to make the connection. Changes in version 1.1-1 - Improved XML parsing, exploiting structure of data and that we can delete XML nodes once read. - Added function to extract catch weigthts by species and haul. Changes in version 1.1-0 - New argument 'surveys' in function getDatrasDataOverview() allows faster overviews for one or few surveys. - Improved XML parsing, so both leading and trailing white space is removed. - Improved XML parsing, so -9 and "" is converted to NA. - Improved XML parsing, so data frame columns are automatically coerced to the appropriate storage mode (character, numeric, integer). Changes in version 1.0-3 - Fixed bug where code assumed stringsAsFactors = FALSE by default. - Remove trailing white space from HHdata table entries. - Added function getDATRAS() from retired package rICES to extract multiple years and quarters. Changes in version 1.0-0 (2016-08-04) - Initial release.