# rethnicity 0.2.6

## update readme

* beautify startup message (entirely rewrite with `cli`)
* add citation info at package startup
* check the input to be character vector only, not dataframe

# rethnicity 0.2.5

## fix CRAN WARN

* WARN created by the change of C++20 standard (GCC-14): specify C++17 for now
* update arxiv doi link as well

## sunsetting `rethnicity` in favor of `rethnicity2` 

* `frugally-deep` has dropped support for RNN-based networks 
* `rethnicity2` will be transformer-based (should also improve performance)

# rethnicity 0.2.4

* startup message can be suppressed
* update README: it is recommended to use `pak` for installation


# rethnicity 0.2.3

* update dependency on RcppThread >= 2.1.3 to fix the compilation error
* update metadata of package

# rethnicity 0.2.2

* add `predict_lastname()` and `predict_fullname()` functions as lower-level interfaces
* they also allow for customized models
* add another vignette on how to run inference on the customized models
* change the License from MIT to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 to prohibit commercial uses
* modify the startup messages to notify users to use the package wisely
* remove docs/ folder, since we are using github actions to automate the process

# rethnicity 0.1.2

* fix the WARN message from CRAN checks on the vignette

# rethnicity 0.1.1

* fixed the include path problem and suppressing warning problem
* add `cran-comments.md` into `.Rbuildignore`
* modify the DESCRIPTION file as requested

# rethnicity 0.1.0

* first submission of the package
* provide `predict_ethnicity()` function to predict the ethnicity from names
