Changes in version 1.2.0                        

New features

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	Add initial Zarr support for reading and writing .zarr stores

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	Allow manually setting chunk size for HDF5 writes

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	Add auto-chunking for HDF5 writes to improve performance

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	Optimise sparse matrix reading performance by avoiding
	Matrix::sparseMatrix and constructing objects manually

Bug fixes

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	Handle unnamed SingleCellExperiment assays in as_AnnData() by
	automatically assigning names with a warning

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	Improve warnings when items fail to convert between objects and
	add new warnings and checks

Documentation

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	Updates to vignettes

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	Fix broken links

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	Update author details

Testing

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	Add a benchmarking system to monitor function performance

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	Improvements to roundtrip tests

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	Improvements to HDF5 tests

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	Improvements to GitHub Actions CI

                        Changes in version 1.0.0                        

Introducing anndataR!

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	anndataR brings the AnnData object to R. It enables native
	reading and writing of H5AD files and conversion to/from
	SingleCellExperiment and Seurat objects.

Features

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	An R6 class to work with AnnData objects in R (either in-memory
	or on-disk)

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	Natively read/write H5AD files without needing a Python
	environment

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	Convert to/from SingleCellExperiment objects

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	Convert to/from Seurat objects