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 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