NEWS.md

In LexisNexisTools: Working with Files from 'LexisNexis'

LexisNexisTools 0.3.7

• Fixes issue in tests

LexisNexisTools 0.3.6

• Fixes issue in tests

LexisNexisTools 0.3.5

• Fixes issue in vignette

LexisNexisTools 0.3.4

• Fixes for compliance with quanteda v3 (thank you @kbenoit)
• All images for building the vignette now live inside the package
• lnt_read_lines and lnt_read now ignore Word lock files

LexisNexisTools 0.3.3

• Updated namespacing for planned v3 modularisation of quanteda (thank you @kbenoit)

LexisNexisTools 0.3.2

• Fixed tests that caused problems on CRAN

LexisNexisTools 0.3.1

• Added support for last remaining new format (zip).
• Fixed tests for compliance with dplyr 1.0.0 (dependency through tidytext).

LexisNexisTools 0.3.0

• Added support for new formats introduced by Nexis Uni and Lexis Advance.
• Improved lnt_convert and added option for data.frame.
• Bug fixes and internal improvements.

LexisNexisTools 0.2.3

• Added support for different download formats (.RTF, .DOC, .PDF[limited]).
• Fixed problems with changes in quanteda 1.5.
• Added function retrieve BibTeX entries from LNToutput.
• Added dim() method for LNToutput class.
• Improved lnt_lookup() by adding more word boundary options.

LexisNexisTools 0.2.2

• Minor bug fixes in lnt_similarity().
• Improved way of telling users about missing packages (can now be installed directly).

LexisNexisTools 0.2.1

• Improved headline cleaning in lnt_read() (Edition is now removed from headline).
• Minor bug fixes in lnt_similarity().
• Corrected inconsistency in lnt_convert().
• Some better error messages.
• Updated tests for lnt_diff() .

LexisNexisTools 0.2.0

• Rewrote lnt_read() to be more stable (and faster) which rendered lnt_checkFiles() unnecessary (now deprecated).
• Added lnt_convert() to transform objects created by lnt_read() to formats used in popular text-as-data analysis packages.
• Enhanced lnt_similarity() which tended to crash when comparing longer texts due to memory limitations.
• Added lnt_diff() to display results from lnt_similarity() in a diff-like viewer.
• Added lnt_lookup() which can be used to check if the nexis keyword search worked properly or to apply simple dictionaries to subset the data.
• Added several methods to work with the S4 class LNToutput.
• Added vignette with basic usage.
• Enhanced documentation of of all functions.
• Started using testthat tests

LexisNexisTools documentation built on July 9, 2023, 5:16 p.m.