NEWS.md

In cranly: Package Directives and Collaboration Networks in CRAN

cranly 0.6.0

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 %>%.
• Added a snapshot data set (see ?crandb) for running examples and vignettes more efficiently.

cranly 0.5.4

Bug fixes

• 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 0.5.3

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 0.5.2

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 0.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed a minor bug that may return duplicated base packages.

Other improvements, updates and addition

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

cranly 0.2

Bug fixes

• handling of duplicated packages in clean_CRAN_db.
• various regex improvements.
• 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 of a package.
• summary method for cranly_dependence_tree tree objects, reporting package dependence index, parents and depth.

Other improvements, updates and addition

• 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 0.1

• First public release.

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