CHANGES IN VERSION 1.18.0
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NEW FEATURES

    o Added functionality for survival and mixed effect survival analysis.
    
    o Added new plotting functions for survival analysis.
    
    o Added support for using weights for alternative results.
    

BUG FIXES

    o Fixed issue with bubble plot where unicode characters don't show up on
      certain operating systems.
    
    o Fixed issue with bubble plot where legend was not accurately showing 
      conditions or phenotypes on the plot.


SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Vignette has been updated with new dataset showcasing more functionality
      of spicyR.
      
DEPRECATED ARGUMENTS

    o `nCores` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `cores`.
    
    o `BPPARAM` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `cores`.
    
    o `imageIDCol` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `imageID`.
    
    o `cellTypeCol` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `cellType`.
    
    o `spatialCoordCols` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `spatialCoords`.
    
    o `Rs` argument deprecated for both getPairwise() and spicy(), replaced 
    with `r`.
    
* Deprecation warnings have been added to guide users to the new argument names.

    

