NEWS.md

In cemigo114/GoogleAPI: R Functions to Perform and Display Google Trends Queries

gtrendsR 1.3.5

• Now able to specify for which Google products the request is performed using the gprop parameter (#112). Possible values are froogle for Google shopping, new for Google news, youtube for Youtube videos and images for Google images.

• Now able to query using Google categories ?gtrends (#89).

• Returned data is now tidy (#110). The trend object now contains keyword, hits and location header (head(sport_trend$trend)).

• Fixing a bug where overriding countries variable was breaking package's functionalities (#109).

gtrendsR 1.3.4

• Fixing login issue due to backend changes made by Google (#103). Thanks to @MrLoh for initial implementation and suggestions.

• Fixing crash occuring when monthly data was returned (#81).

• gtrends() will throw a warning if data is returned monthly (#80).

• gtrends() is now correctly detecting when quota limit is reached (#90).

gtrendsR 1.3.3

• A ggplot2 object can now be returned for further customization. plot(gtrends("NHL")) + ggtitle("NHL trend") + theme(legend.position="none")

• Support for hourly and daily data (#67). For example, it is now possible to have hourly data for the last seven days with gtrends("nhl", geo = "CA", res = "7d"). Use ?gtrends for more information about the time resolution supported by the package.

• Support for categorties (#46). Ex.: gtrends("NHL", geo = "US", cat = "0-20") will search only in the sport category.

• Some countries (ex: Hong Kong) were missing from the list (#69).

• Various typos and documentation work.

gtrendsR 1.3.2

• Added support for sub-countries (#25). Ex.: gtrends("NHL", geo = "CA-QC") will return trends data for Québec province in Canada. The list of supported sub-countries can be obtained via data(countries).

• Data parsing should work for any data returned by Google Trends (i.e. countries independent).

• Better support for queries using keywords in different languages (#50, #57). Ex.: gtrends("蘋果", geo = "TW")

• Now able to specify up to five countries (#53) via gtrends("NHL", geo = c("CA", "US"))

• Fixing issue #51 allowing UK-based queries via geo = "GB"

gtrendsR 1.3.1

• Fixing issue #34 where connection verification was not done properly.
• Now able to use more latin character in query. For example: gtrends("montréal").
• Can now deal with data returned other than in English language.

gtrendsR 1.3.0

• First version of gtrendsR

cemigo114/GoogleAPI documentation built on July 18, 2020, 6:06 p.m.