Changes from Version 1.4 to 1.5. * Prepared the package for R 4.0.0 (stringsAsFactors). * Removed dependencies to the orphaned bit package (will be missed!). Changes from Version 1.4 to 1.5. * Prepared the package for R 4.0.0. Changes from Version 1.4 to 1.5. * Improved test_features to prevent errors for very unbalanced confusion matrices. Changes from Version 1.3 to 1.4. * Updated vignette to make it compatibile with new ggplot2 version. Also added some references and polished the text. Changes from Version 1.2 to 1.3. * Added binarize for fast binarization of matrices. * Added calc_ed function (calculates distance between encodings). * Added calc_si function (calculates similarity index of two encodings). * Added list2matrix to easily convert list of sequences to biogram preferred matrix. * Added vignette. * Bug fixes in count_specified, degenerate and gap_ngrams. Changes from Version 1.1 to 1.2. * Added add_1grams function. * Added construct_ngrams function (iteratively construct longer n-grams). * Added ngrams2df function. * Added count_specified function (counts only selected n-grams). * Added table_ngrams function (counts of n-grams considering their class labels). * Added code_ngrams function (coding n-grams to biogram format). * Added gap_ngrams function. * Added criterion_distribution class followed with new methods: plot. * Improved position_ngrams output. Changes from Version 1.0 to 1.1 * Improved functionalities of calc_multigrams. * Improved explanation of n-gram naming convention. * Added more universal version of calc_distribution * Added feature_test class followed with new methods: print, summary, cut. * Added functions transforming n-grams to less abstruse form: decode_ngrams, position_ngrams. * Added citation.