NEWS

cranly 0.6.0 (2022-08-26)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 \code{FALSE} 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.

Improved vignettes and fixed check errors that resulted in archiving on 2019-01-23.
Improved documentation.
Removed testthat from Suggests in DESCRIPTION.

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.

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.