NEWS.md

In multicastR: A Companion to the Multi-CAST Collection

multicastR news

2.0.0 [released 21-02-22]

• removed dependency on the data.table package
• functions multicast, mc_metadata, mc_referents, and mc_clauses have been fully rewritten to output data.frames instead of data.tables
• the version index (as retrieved by function mc_index) now includes the number of corpora in each version of the collection instead of an explicit list of corpora and has a slightly reshuffled column order
• removed the mc_table function for its lack of practical utility
• removed a number of previously hidden functions for file conversion; these will be made available in the future as a standalone package available from the Multi-CAST website
• consequently, multicastR no longer imports a number of packages (stringi, curl, xml2, XML, xtable, gsubfn) used by these functions

1.3.0 [released 19-08-30]

• the reflex column in multicastR tables has been renamed to isnref
• function mc_referents now takes an optional argument vkey to select specific versions of the lists of referents
• function mc_metadata now takes an optional argument vkey to select specific versions of the metadata
• updated repository links
• updated documentation
• removed the legacy.colnames argument from function multicast
• removed function mcindex (use mc_index instead)
• removed function mc_count_clauses (use mc_clauses instead)

1.2.0 [released 19-07-30]

• new function mc_metadata: download a table containing all corpus metadata from the repository
• new function mc_referents: download a bundled list of all discourse referents (as annotated with the RefIND scheme, Schiborr et al. 2018) from the repository
• new function mc_clauses: replaces function mc_count_clauses
• function mc_count_clauses is now deprecated
• fixed an issue with mc_clauses (and mc_count_clauses) when bytext = TRUE

1.1.0 [released 19-05-12]

• the file column in multicastR tables has been renamed to text
• the word column in multicastR tables has been renamed to gword
• for backwards compatibility, the multicast function now has a legacy.colnames argument that, if set to TRUE, outputs tables with the old column names; this option will be removed in the future
• new function mc_count_clauses (WIP): produces a table containing the number of clause units in each corpus or text
• new function mc_table (WIP): tabulate counts of GRAID symbols
• new function mc_index: replaces function mcindex
• function mcindex is now deprecated
• updated repository links
• repository files now have the file extension TSV (rather than TXT)
• updated description
• updated citation

1.0.1 [released 18-09-29]

• updated repository links

1.0.0 [released 18-06-13]

• initial publication

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