Merge pull request #17 from nanxstats/news

Update news for v0.2.0

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: ssw
 Title: Striped Smith-Waterman Algorithm for Sequence Alignment using SIMD
-Version: 0.1.1
+Version: 0.2.0
 Authors@R: c(
-    person("Nan", "Xiao", email = "me@nanx.me", role = c("aut", "cre"),
+    person("Nan", "Xiao", email = "me@nanx.me", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0250-5673"))
     )
 Description: Provides an R interface for 'SSW' (Striped Smith-Waterman)

NEWS.md

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+# ssw 0.2.0
+
+## Improvements
+
+- Add helper function `install_ssw_py()` for easy installation of Python
+  package dependency following best practices (#9).
+- Use consistent symbol name `ssw_py` for the imported Python package (#10).
+- Update reticulate wrapper to work with ssw-py >= 1.0.0 (#11).
+- Qualify namespaces explicitly when calling external functions (#15).
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Run code examples and vignette code chunks conditionally (#5).
+- Use GitHub Actions workflows to run `R CMD check` and to build pkgdown site (#6).
+- Update installation sections in `README.md` (#12).
+- Rewrite function reference documentation to improve clarity (#14).
+
 # ssw 0.1.1
 
-Added two arguments `match_score` and `mismatch_penalty` for scoring the matches and mismatches ([#1](https://github.com/nanxstats/ssw-r/issues/1)).
+- Added two arguments `match_score` and `mismatch_penalty` for scoring the matches and mismatches (#1).
 
 # ssw 0.1.0
 
-First version. Implements `align()` and `force_align()`.
+- First version. Implements `align()` and `force_align()`.