Changes in version 0.2.6 (2024-10-18)                  

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

                 Changes in version 0.2.5 (2024-07-08)                  

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)

                 Changes in version 0.2.4 (2023-03-13)                  

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

                 Changes in version 0.2.3 (2022-05-31)                  

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

                 Changes in version 0.2.2 (2021-11-30)                  

  - 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

                 Changes in version 0.1.2 (2021-10-07)                  

  - fix the WARN message from CRAN checks on the vignette

                 Changes in version 0.1.1 (2021-09-22)                  

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

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

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