diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f3679db..dd463cb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: SpatialFeatures
 Title: Entropy-based subcellular and supercellular features for molecule-resolved spatial omics datasets
-Version: 0.0.5
+Version: 0.99.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Shila", "Ghazanfar", email = "shazanfar@gmail.com",
     role = c("aut", "cre", "ctb"),comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7861-6997")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b433121..c04487a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# SpatialFeatures v0.0.5 (2024-09-19)
+# SpatialFeatures v0.99.0 (2024-09-19)
 + Submitted to Bioconductor.
diff --git a/R/EntropyMatrix_utils.R b/R/EntropyMatrix_utils.R
index f5bbaba..7d8635b 100644
--- a/R/EntropyMatrix_utils.R
+++ b/R/EntropyMatrix_utils.R
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #'
 #' @importFrom terra t diff
 #' @return A matrix of annuli polygon counts.
-annuli_counts = function(mat) {
+annuli_counts <- function(mat) {
   fac <- sub("_[0-9]+$", "", colnames(mat))
   tmat <- terra::t(mat)
   tmat_split <- split.data.frame(tmat, fac)
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ calculate_entropy <- function(p) {
 #'
 #' @param counts a vector of integers
 #' @return the proportion
-countsprop = function(counts) {
+countsprop <- function(counts) {
   total <- sum(counts)
   if (total == 0) {
     return(rep(0, length(counts)))
diff --git a/R/EntropySingleCellExperiment_utils.R b/R/EntropySingleCellExperiment_utils.R
index 706d3ce..c968522 100644
--- a/R/EntropySingleCellExperiment_utils.R
+++ b/R/EntropySingleCellExperiment_utils.R
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #' features (default FALSE)
 #' @return if concatenateFeatures == TRUE, A single data frame,
 #' otherwise a list containing data frames
-make_assay_data = function(df_list, concatenateFeatures = FALSE) {
+make_assay_data <- function(df_list, concatenateFeatures = FALSE) {
 
   assay_data_list <- lapply(names(df_list), function(assayName) {
     df <- df_list[[assayName]]
diff --git a/R/loadBoundaries.R b/R/loadBoundaries.R
index a6f861a..535c3ef 100644
--- a/R/loadBoundaries.R
+++ b/R/loadBoundaries.R
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
 #' me
 loadBoundaries <- function(me,...) {
 
-  featureData = GenerateFeatureData(me, ...)
+  featureData <- GenerateFeatureData(me, ...)
 
   featureData <- lapply(featureData,
                         function(x) {x$segment_id <- x$area_id; return(x)})
 
-  bds_list = lapply(featureData, MoleculeExperiment::dataframeToMEList,
+  bds_list <- lapply(featureData, MoleculeExperiment::dataframeToMEList,
                     dfType = "boundaries", assayName = "cell",
                     sampleCol = "sample_id", factorCol = "area_id",
                     xCol = "x_section", yCol = "y_section",