Changes in version 1.50.0                        

  - The provided data objects have been resaved with a more efficient
    compression ("xz"), enabling a 10-15% reduction of the size taken up
    by the whole package - this change should not present any visible
    change to the end-user, as the objects are identical once loaded

                       Changes in version 1.42.0                        

  - Role of maintainer taken over by Federico Marini
  - Refreshing the codebase, introducing roxygen-based documentation and
    applying styler for consistent spacing, as well as using Github
    Actions for CI/CD