NEWS.md

In charlatan: Make Fake Data

charlatan 0.5.1

NEW FEATURES

• added a SSN number generation process for en_US, addition by Neal Furtz (@nfultz)
• Changed maintainer of the package to RMHogervorst

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed a failing test on r-devel

charlatan 0.5.0

NEW FEATURES

• InternetProvider adds new methods ipv4 and ipv6 via the new suggested package ipaddress (#112) thanks @davidchall
• AddressProvider and JobsProvider gain new langugage locale nl_NL (#118) (#119) thanks @markbaas

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fixed typo in docs (#117) thanks @j450h1

charlatan 0.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• gains new vignette "Contributing to charlatan" - given that it can be complicated to contribute, this vignette should make the process easier (#49) (#84)
• InternetProvider gains new method slug (#67)
• MiscProvider gains two new methods boolean and null_boolean (#70)
• es_PE locale support added to PhoneNumberProvider (#108)
• en_NZ locale support added to AddressProvider, InternetProvider, and PersonProvider (#109)
• main vignette gains examples on using the MissingDataProvider thanks to @KKulma (#110)
• PhoneNumberProvider gains support for locales: dk_DK, en_NZ, id_ID, th_TH, and tw_GH (#100)
• each R6 provider gains new method allowed_locales() - the exported character vector of allowed locales for each provider has moved inside of the R6 class in $private because there's no reason for the user to modify allowed locales - allowed_locales() reads this vector for each provider

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• convert all documentation to the new R6 support in roxygen2

charlatan 0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• ch_job() and JobsProvider gains da_DK locale support (#94) from @MartinMSPedersen

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fixes for PersonProvider for locale fr_FR: fix accents; avoid awkward french names; now can do double first names; removed some duplicate names (#35) (#83) from @kylevoyto
• remove leading and trailing whitespace in JobsProvider and PersonProvider where found; and remove some blank suffixes for fa_IR PersonProvider (#88) (#91) from @kylevoyto
• standardization of locale names to always be xx_XX where first two letters are lowercase and second two are uppercase (#90) from @kylevoyto
• change locale for Danish/Denmark from dk_DK to da_DK to comply with ISO-3166 (#93) from @MartinMSPedersen
• fix Danish phone number formats to match phone numbers actually used there (#93) from @MartinMSPedersen
• remove duplicates and sort names across PersonProvider for various locales (#96) from @MartinMSPedersen
• mention similar packages (#72)

charlatan 0.2.2

BUG FIXES

• run examples conditionally if packages installed for packages in Suggests: iptools and stringi (#82)

charlatan 0.2.0

NEW FEATURES

• new package author: https://github.com/kylevoyto
• gains ElementsProvider and associated methods ch_element_element() and ch_element_symbol() for getting element names and symbols (#55)
• gains InternetProvider with many methods, including for domain names, urls (and their parts), emails, tld's, etc. (#66)
• gains MiscProvider with methods for getting locale names and locale codes (#69)
• gains UserAgentProvider for user agent strings (#57)
• gains FileProvider with methods for mime type, file extension, file names and paths (#59)
• gains LoremProvider with methods for words, sentences and paragraphs (#58)
• JobProvider gains Finnish locale (#79)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• mention usage in the wild in README (#54)
• change behavior when a locale doesn't have a data type from erroring to a zero length string (#64)
• switch to markdown docs (#68)
• fix PersonProvider for locale en_GB - we were ignoring probabilities of different names (#63) (#75)
• fix ColorProvider: generate only the 216 colors in safe web colors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors) - and fix method for generating hex colors (#18) (#42) (#76)
• fix to have safe_color_name within ColorProvider be sensitive to locale (#17) (#77)
• packages stringi and iptools moved from Imports to Suggests - not required for package use now unless a few specific methods used (#71)
• AddressProvider gains methods street_name, street_address, postcode, and address. in addition, various fixes to AddressProvider (#62) (#80)

charlatan 0.1.0

NEW FEATURES

• Released to CRAN.

charlatan documentation built on Sept. 13, 2023, 5:08 p.m.