cranly v0.6.0

Other improvements, updates and additions

• Methods fail gracefully with an informative message if access to CRAN mirrors is not possible or if objects with no package or author information are passed.
• Base pipe |> is now used internally instead of %>%.

cranly v0.5.4

• Fixed a bug in release_date_of, version_of, license_of, title_of, description_of, where if package = Inf the results would be unique'd before returning

cranly v0.5.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that would not allow clean_CRAN_db to work with the output of utils::available.packages
• Fixed a bug that would cause a warning about invalid factor levels in build_network

Other improvements, updates and additions

• Fixed typos in news
• Improved the computational efficiency of build_network
• Improved the variables checks in clean_CRAN_db

cranly v0.5.2

New functionality

• New extractor functions suggested_by, imported_by, dependency_of, linked_by, enhanced_by, suggesting, importing, linking_to, enhancing, maintainer_of, maintained_by, email_of, email_with, description_of, title_of, license_of, version_of, release_date_of
• Plural aliases for extractor functions (e.g. authors_of, release_dates_of and so on)
• methods for word clouds of titles, description files and author names (see ?word_cloud)
• subset.cranly_network now has a maintainer argument to subset by maintainer

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where packages with no directives were removed from the network when perspective = "package"
• Fixed extractor bugs and improved documentation
• build_network now works without explicitly supplying any arguments

Other improvements, updates and additions

• Moved to roxygen2 with rmarkdown
• Major documentation updates
• New improved codebase for extractor functions (see ?extractor-functions)
• date and published in cranly_db objects are now of class Date
• extractor functions have a new argument flat; if \code{FALSE} then a data.frame with all available information on the corresponding matches is returned
• cranly_network_objects with perspective = "package carry maintainer and maintainer email information
• New vignette on extractor functions and word clouds
• Updated DESCRIPTION file

cranly v0.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed a minor bug that may return duplicated base packages

Other improvements, updates and addition

• Improved vignettes and fixed check erorrs that resulted in archiving on 2019-01-23
• Improved documentsation
• Removed testthat from Suggests in DESCRIPTION

cranly v0.2

Bug fixes

• handling of duplicated packages in clean_CRAN_db
• various regex imporvements
• Better handling of packages with . in their names

New functionality

• clean_CRAN_db now accepts the matrix from available.packages
• new extractors for cranly_network objects: suggests, depends, linking_to, imports
• compute_dependence_tree is a recursion to compute all generations of a package (i.e. what else is installed)
• build_dependence_tree and a plot method for extracting the dependence tree fo a package
• summary method for cranly_dependence_tree tree objects, reporting package dependence index, parents and depth

Other improvements, updates and additions

• Added support for LinkingTo (thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel for raising the issue)
• Added acknowledgement to Turing Institute
• plot methods return legend and title by default

cranly v0.1

1st public release