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In mlr3misc: Helper Functions for 'mlr3'

mlr3misc 0.19.0

• feat: Added various new functions for improved error handling.
• feat: encapsulate() now returns the specific condition objects along the logs, allowing for improved error handling on the caller side.

mlr3misc 0.18.0

• feat: Added "mirai" as encapsulation method to encapsulate().

mlr3misc 0.17.0

• feat: as_callbacks() returns a list named by the callback ids now.
• feat: Added logical operators %check&&% and %check||% for check_*-functions from checkmate (moved here from mlr3pipelines).
• feta: Added helper cat_cli().
• fix: Default dicts_suggest = NULL for dictionary_get_item() and dictionary_retrieve_item() for backward compatibility.
• fix: Wrong assert in dictionary_sugar_inc_get.
• feat: Functions warningf() and stopf() now have a class argument and also add the additional class mlr3warning and mlr3error, respectively. The condition object now also includes the call.

mlr3misc 0.16.0

• fix: crate() is using the correct 'topenv' environment now.
• BREAKING CHANGE: Remove the unused 'safe' variants of dictionary getters.
• feat: dictionary_sugar_get() and corresponding functions now take a list of dictionaries as optional argument .dicts_suggest to look for suggestions if .key is not part of the dictionary.

mlr3misc 0.15.1

• refactor: Update as_callback() functions.

mlr3misc 0.15.0

• Feat: Added strip_screfs S3 generic, which removes source references from objects
• The RNG state is now copied to the callr session when using encapsulate().

mlr3misc 0.14.0

• Added argument .compile to function crate() because R disables byte-code compilation of functions when changing their enclosing environment
• Added the possibility to include prototype arguments when adding elements to a Dictionary
• Removed unused argument required_args from Dictionary class
• Disable leanification when ROXYGEN_PKG environment variable is set

mlr3misc 0.13.0

• Updated default environment for crate() to topenv() (#86).
• Added safe methods for dictionary retrieval (#83)
• fix: Fixed an important bug that caused serialized objects to be overly large when installing mlr3 with --with-keep.source (#88)

mlr3misc 0.12.0

• Added new encapsulation mode "try".
• Added functions dictionary_sugar_inc_get and dictionary_sugar_inc_mget which allow to conveniently add suffixes to dictionary ids when retrieving objects.

mlr3misc 0.11.0

• Added initial support for a callback mechanism, see as_callback().
• Added helper catn().
• Added helper set_params().
• Added assign method for get_private().
• Elements of a dictionary via dictionary_sugar_mget() are now returned named.

mlr3misc 0.10.0

• Added helper get_private().
• Added helper map_br() and map_bc().
• Added helper recycle_vectors().
• Added helpers walk(), iwalk() and pwalk().

mlr3misc 0.9.5

• Added helper deframe().

mlr3misc 0.9.4

• Added helper capitalize().
• Added helper to_decimal().
• Fixed cleanup in register_namespace_callback().

mlr3misc 0.9.3

• New (internal) helper functions: calculate_hash() and assert_ro_binding()

mlr3misc 0.9.2

• R6 objects retrieved from the dictionary are now properly cloned.

mlr3misc 0.9.1

• Fixed compilation for R versions older than 3.5.0 (#59).

mlr3misc 0.9.0

• Changed return type of reorder_vector().
• Added assertions in pmap() to avoid a segfault (#56).
• Added count_missing().

mlr3misc 0.8.0

• New function reorder_vector().
• formulate() can now quote all terms, defaulting to quote all terms on the right hand side.

mlr3misc 0.7.0

• Make more map functions work nicely with data frames and data tables.
• formulate() now supports multiple LHS terms.
• Added format_bib() and cite_bib() helpers for working with bibentires and roxygen2.

mlr3misc 0.6.0

• New argument .timeout for invoke().
• New argument .timeout for encapsulate().
• Removed cite_bib() and Rd macro \cite{} and removed orphaned package bibtex from suggests.
• New argument quietly for require_namespaces().
• New function crate() to cleanly separate a function from its environment.
• New function register_namespace_callback().

mlr3misc 0.5.0

• Added compose() function for function composition.
• Added method leanify_package() that shrinks the size of serialized R6 objects.

mlr3misc 0.4.0

• Added helper functions to assist in generating Rd documentation for 'mlr3' objects.

mlr3misc 0.3.0

• Introduced a placeholder for column name prefixes in unnest().

mlr3misc 0.2.0

• Fixed an issue with rcbind() for columns of x named y (#42).
• Fixed broken on.exit() in invoke() if both a seed and a list of options were provided.

mlr3misc 0.1.8

• New function check_packages_installed().
• New function open_help().

mlr3misc 0.1.7

• map_dtr(), imap_dtr() and pmap_dtr() now pass .idcol down to argument idcol of data.table::rbindlist().
• cite_bib() can now handle packages with multiple citation entries.
• Added argument wrap to catf(), messagef(), warningf() and stopf() to wrap the respective messages to a customizable width.
• Added with_package() helper, similar to the one in package withr.

mlr3misc 0.1.6

• cite_bib() or Rd macro \cite{} can now return the citation information of the package if key is set to "pkg::citation".
• Updated dictionary helpers.

mlr3misc 0.1.5

• Fixed error in C code discovered by UBSAN checks on CRAN.
• Added dictionary_sugar_mget().
• Renamed dictionary_sugar() to dictionary_sugar_get().
• Added function cite_bib() and Rd macro \cite{} to insert entries from bibtex files into roxygen documentation.
• unnest() now creates list columns for non atomic list elements.

mlr3misc 0.1.4

• Added argument na_rm to which_max() and which_min().
• Fixed a bug in as_short_string() for empty atomic vectors.

mlr3misc 0.1.3

• New function detect().
• New function dictionary_sugar().
• It is now asserted that the return value of Dictionary$get() is an R6 object.
• Fix some assertions in Dictionary

mlr3misc 0.1.2

• New function named_vector().
• New function keep_in_bounds().
• New function set_col_names().
• New function distinct_values().
• Added argument .key to rowwise_table().
• Additional arguments passed to Dictionary$get() and Dictionary$mget() must now be named.

mlr3misc 0.1.1

• New function encapsulate() to call functions while recording a log.
• invoke(): New arguments .opts and .seed to temporarily set options or random seeds, respectively.
• Fixed warnings about partial argument matching.

mlr3misc 0.1.0

• Initial release.

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