packagefinder 0.3.1

Bug fix

Bug fixed that prevented intallation of the package on certain Linux distributions.

packagefinder 0.3.0

Major changes

• New RStudio add-in as a graphical interface to packagefinder

Minor changes

• New logical argument clipboard for function findPackage() to copy search results to the clipboard
• Argument silent will now lead to no ouputs whatsoever
• Search index is created the first time packagefinder is used and then re-used in later calls

packagefinder 0.2.1

Bug fixes

• Version check at startup removed as this was causing problems on some systems
• Availability of ‘browser’ display option limited to Windows-based systems because it caused trouble on Linux-/Unix-based systems

packagefinder 0.2.0

Major changes

• search terms can consist of full queries like “meta AND regression”
• New display mode “browser” to view results in web browser
• findPackage() can return search results as dataframe

packagefinder 0.1.5

Minor changes

• New function fp() as short alias for findPackage().
• New argument advanced.ranking (default: TRUE) in function findPackage() enables a more sophisticated ranking of search results that takes into account the relative frequencies of the different search terms across the packages and the length of the matches relative to the text they were found in.

packagefinder 0.1.1

Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixed that occurred when checking details of a non-existing package.

packagefinder 0.1.0

With version 0.1.0 the features of packagefinder have been significantly enhanced.

Major changes

• New function exploreFields() allows the user to search for packages by looking into specific fields of the package’s information from CRAN.

• New function packageDetails() shows detailed information for any CRAN package.

• New function whatsNew() shows packages recently uploaded to CRAN.

• New function lastResults() reproduces the results of the users’ last package search with findPackage().

Minor changes

• packagefinder functions now use colored output in the RStudio console (feature only available when using RStudio).

• Startup message on loading the package reminds the user briefly of how to use packagefinder.

• Download column in search results is made invisible if search index does not include download figures.

• Function findPackage() now supports an argument ‘only.top’ to limit the number of search results presented (default: 15).

• Function findPackage()‘s argument ’index’ has been moved to third place in the order of arguments (since this optional argument is often left out when calling findPackage()).

• Function go() now supports “details” as value for argument ‘where.to’ (shows details of the package); this value is the new default for ‘where.to’.

• The option “cran” in function go()‘s argument ’where.to’ has been renamed to “website” in order to make it more general (as in many cases, the website is actually a GitHub page or custom website)

• Function findPackage() now supports an argument ‘silent’ (default: FALSE); it controls if details of the user’s search request are printed as part of the search results.

• Function go()‘s argument ’package’ can now also be the package’s name as a string (instead of the ‘GO’ index number presented in the search results).

• Function buildIndex() now incorporates a significant larger number of CRAN fields into the search index than before, to enable functionalities provided by packageDetails() and exploreFields().

• Package tools (>= 3.4.0) is now required to make sure function CRAN__package__db() is available to packagefinder (GitHub issue #3, @SteffenMoritz).

• README.md has been significantly expanded to provide a comprehensive introduction to working with the packagefinder package.

Bug fixes

• Publishing date of the CRAN packages was not retrieved correctly. Fixed.