NEWS.md

In kanjistat: A Statistical Framework for the Analysis of Japanese Kanji Characters

kanjistat 0.14.1 (2024-05-30)

Bug fixes

• Some unit tests were performed conditionally on the availability of package spatstat.data rather than kanjistat.data, which led to errors in the CRAN checks whenever spatstat.data was available but kanjistat.data was not. Fixed.

kanjistat 0.14.0 (2024-05-29)

New features

• New function convert_kanji for universal conversion between kanji formats.

• New function sedist for computing the stroke edit distance by Lars Yencken.

kanjistat 0.13.2 (2024-05-24)

Bug fixes

• Properly set up integration of the new non-CRAN kanjistat.data package.

kanjistat 0.13.1 (2024-05-17)

Bug fixes

• compare_neighborhoods gave obscure errors when stroke edit distances involved kanji with index > 2133. Fixed by returning an explicit error if the key kanji has such an index and setting the corresponding return value to NA if any of the closest kanji in the kanji distance has such an index.

kanjistat 0.13.0 (2024-05-10)

Breaking changes

• Function kanjidist with approx = "pc" or approx = "pcweighted" now runs only for kanjivec objects generated with kanjistat 0.13.0 or newer.

New features

• The structure of kanjivec objects has been extended. Each strokes in the stroketree component now has an additional attribute "beziermat" which describes the Bézier curves of the stroke in a standardized 2 x (1+3n) matrix format (n = number of curves). The new structure is fully backward compatible. Whether a given kanjivec object kan follows the new structure can be tested by attr(kan, "kanjistat_version") >= 0.13.0. The kvecjoyo dataset on https://github.com/dschuhmacher/kanjistat.data has been updated accordingly.

• New function compare_neighborhoods, which currently compares stroke edit distances and kanji distances in a dstrokedit neighborhood of a given kanji and optionally extends the comparison to nearest neighbors in the kanji distance. This function is still somewhat experimental.

• kanjidist and kanjidistmat have a new parameter minor_warnings which toggles any warnings that can be ignored by most users. These warnings usually point to issues in the underlying kanjivec data or the kanjidist computation that are currently addressed by workarounds.

Enhancements

• kanjidist with approx = "pc" or approx = "pcweighted" runs considerably faster with the new kanjivec objects, because the inefficient (multiple) parsing of d attributes from previous versions is now avoided.

Bug fixes

• Producing the point cloud representations produced an error for some individual kanjivec objects. Fixed in the internal functions. Both kanjivec with non-default parameter bezier_discr and kanjidist with approx = "pc" or approx = "pcweighted" should run now in all cases without problems (tested for Jouyou kanji).

kanjistat 0.12.0 (2024-05-02)

• kanjistat depends on R (>= 4.1) and transport (>= 0.15) now.

New features

• Function kanjidist has a new argument approx, which specifies how the strokes are to be approximated for computing component distances. The three options "grid", "pc" or "pcweighted" work in any combination with the three options for the type argument (which now strictly specifies the type of distance used for the components).

• Function kanjivec has a new argument bezier_discr, which may be any of "svgparser", "eqtimed" and "eqspaced", specifing, for the discretization of the strokes in the stroketree component, which code is used and according to which strategy the points are placed.

• Data set pooled_similarity contains the human similarity judgements of kanji from Yencken and Baldwin (2008).

Enhancements

• point cloud approximations ("pc" and "pcweighted") use (approximately) equispaced points on the Bézier curves now.

• Various speed improvements to options "pc" and "pcweighted".

Bugs

• Using kanjidist for compo_seg_depth1 >= 5 returned an error. Fixed.

kanjistat 0.11.0 (2024-02-17)

• Lennart Finke is now a co-author.

New features

• Function kanjidist accepts two new type arguments "pc" and "pcweighted" for computing component distances based on (weighted) point clouds rather than bitmap images.

• Data sets dstrokedit and dyehli added with stroke edit and Yeh-Li (bag-of-radicals) distances between Jouyou kanji and (usually a bit more than) their closest ten neighbors. Based on the PhD thesis by Lars Yencken (2010).

User visible changes

• Previously, function kanjimat cut off part of the kanji under the default setting marging = 0 on Windows. The algorithm for setting the effective margin in the bitmap representation has been improved.

kanjistat 0.10.0 (2024-01-01)

New feature

• Function read_kanjidic2, which reads a KANJIDIC2 file and converts it to a list. All kanji information in the original file is retained, but the structure is simplified.

Documentation

• Add contribution guidelines.

kanjistat 0.9.0 (2023-05-20)

New feature

• Add function cjk_escape, which replaces CJK characters by their Unicode escape sequences in files.

Documentation

• Improve the main package vignette and make it more versatile.

kanjistat 0.8.0 (2023-05-06)

Documentation

• More extensive readme file and main package vignette.

• Add package website using pkgdown.

Improvements

• Increase functionality for plotkanji. This function now plots several kanji in possibly different fonts. A parameter filename was added for devices that plot to a file.

Minor bug fixes

• Add print.kanjivec() to package exports.

kanjistat 0.7.0 (2023-04-07)

• First public release.

kanjistat documentation built on June 22, 2024, 10:35 a.m.