Issue #552 Merge main into develop

[nikosbosse]

Description

This PR closes #552.

Solves merge conflicts between main and develop.

Checklist

• My PR is based on a package issue and I have explicitly linked it.
• I have included the target issue or issues in the PR title as follows: issue-number: PR title
• I have tested my changes locally.
• I have added or updated unit tests where necessary.
• I have updated the documentation if required.
• I have built the package locally and run rebuilt docs using roxygen2.
• My code follows the established coding standards and I have run lintr::lint_package() to check for style issues introduced by my changes.
• I have added a news item linked to this PR.
• I have reviewed CI checks for this PR and addressed them as far as I am able.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Comparison is base (2ff165f) 83.71% compared to head (9871994) 83.71%.
Report is 1 commits behind head on develop.

❗ Current head 9871994 differs from pull request most recent head 6cab635. Consider uploading reports for the commit 6cab635 to get more accurate results

Additional details and impacted files

@@           Coverage Diff            @@
##           develop     #556   +/-   ##
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  Coverage    83.71%   83.71%           
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  Files           21       22    +1     
  Lines         1719     1726    +7     
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+ Hits          1439     1445    +6     
- Misses         280      281    +1     

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[sbfnk]

LGTM