Changes in version 1.6.5                        

  - Fixed bugs in getSAGGraphs
  - Added new argument assessmentKey to getListStocks()

icesSAG 1.6.4 (2025-06-19)

  - added custom plot capability to getSAGGraphs

icesSAG 1.6.3 (2025-05-03)

  - fixed bug in getSAGGraphs
  - remove dependency on icesVocab

icesSAG 1.6.2 (2025-04-30)

  - Upload stock function updated and working.
  - icesDatsu is used in uploadStock() to check file format and validate
    the data before upload.

icesSAG 1.5.0 (2024-10-24)

  - Update all functions to point to new API.
  - Remove token authentication, and move to JWT tokens via icesConnect.
  - Introduce the use of caching for some functions to reduce API
    requests.
  - export GET and POST request functions.
  - Depreciate redundant graph functions (e.g. YSSBR).
  - New functions to set package options: sag_use_token() and
    sag_messages().
  - Link messages package option to quiet argument in get requests.
  - GetListStocks now accepts a stock and modifiedAfter arguments for
    additional server side filtering.
  - Remove file upload capability.

icesSAG 1.4.1 (2023-05-11)

  - bug fix for stockInfo() and documentation.

icesSAG 1.4.0 (2022-02-17)

  - add new function getCustomColumns().

icesSAG 1.3-8 (2019-10-29)

  - Display warning if stock name contains – and not -, and quietly fix.

icesSAG 1.3-7 (2019-05-14)

  - Allow upload to contiue if errors found by DATSU - gives warning,
    not error.
  - Add function to parse stock status table values due to change in web
    service XML data structure.
  - Fix name in upload format specification CatchLandingsUnits.

icesSAG 1.3-6 (2019-03-13)

  - Fixed bug in parsing of XML tables. Function now reads the WSDL data
    that is included as an internal data set (list of variable names)
  - Set all examples to dontrun
  - code now checked against lintr for consistent style

icesSAG 1.3-5 (2018-06-08)

  - added function getStockSourceData() to download the XML file that
    was origionally uploaded.

icesSAG 1.3-4 (2018-05-01)

  - added function getLatestStockAdviceList()
  - export print methods for sag.list and sag.data.frame for fishdata
    and fishinfo objects used to upload data.
  - improved personal access token logic
  - improved help documentation
  - Added StockCategory, Purpose, ModelType, ModelName to upload
    functions
  - Added filter for assessment Purpose in getSAG()
  - fixed bugs arising from changes to xml2 package
  - fixed bug arsing from change in ICES Datsu web service

icesSAG 1.3-2 (2017-05-06)

  - User sets SAG database access token in a ~/.Renviron_SG file.
  - Addressed non CRAN compliant behaviour: user must create .Renviron
    file themselves.

icesSAG 1.3-1 (2017-05-04)

  - Improved createSAGxml() internal data validation.

icesSAG 1.3-0 (2017-04-05)

  - Added function uploadStock() to upload data to SAG database via
    uploadXMLFile(). The functions readSAGxml() and createSAGxml()
    convert data to and from SAG XML upload format.
  - Added functions stockInfo() and stockFishdata() to prepare data for
    upload. Uploads require user access tokens, available from the main
    SAG website.
  - Added function getStockStatusValues() to get stock status table, and
    getYSBRSummaryTable() to get yield and SSB per recruit.
  - Added functions getSAGSettings() and setSAGSettings() to get and set
    graph settings. The function getSAGTypeGraphs() lists the SAG graph
    types.
  - Renamed findKey() to findAssessmentKey().

icesSAG 1.2-1 (2017-03-24)

  - Hotfix release to match changes in the underlying web service,
    regarding assessment keys.

icesSAG 1.2-0 (2016-12-05)

  - Added functions get*Graph() to fetch standard graph images, with a
    corresponding plot() method. The convenience function getSAGGraphs()
    fetches four commonly used graphs.
  - Added argument 'regex' to findKey().
  - Fixed bug in getSAG() when different column names appear in stock
    summaries and combine = TRUE.
  - Removed dependency on RCurl and XML by using base functions to
    download and parse data.

icesSAG 1.1-0 (2016-10-29)

  - Added function findKey() to look up a unique stock list key.
  - Added function getSAG() to import summary results and reference
    points, without finding a lookup key first.
  - Changed argument in functions getSummaryTable() and
    getFishStockReferencepoints() from 'year' to 'key'.
  - Improved XML parsing, so both leading and trailing white space is
    removed.
  - Improved XML parsing, so "" and "NA" is converted to NA.
  - Improved XML parsing, so data frame columns are automatically
    coerced to the appropriate storage mode (character, numeric,
    integer).

icesSAG 1.0-0 (2016-08-09)

  - Initial release, with functions getListStocks(), getSummaryTable(),
    and getFishStockReferencePoints().