Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

PGRdup 0.2.3.9

OTHER NOTES:

  • Fixed CITATION.

PGRdup 0.2.3.82023-05-23

OTHER NOTES:

  • Fixed non-ascii content and replaced latin1 encoding with utf-8.

PGRdup 0.2.3.72021-02-17

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • ValidatePrimKey - Fixed xtfrm on data.frame.

VIGNETTE:

  • Removed cairo dependency.

PGRdup 0.2.3.62020-07-27

VIGNETTE:

  • Reverted to using system certificates instead of RCurl ones for fetching and displaying version history as suggested by Prof. Brian Ripley ().

PGRdup 0.2.3.52020-02-10

OTHER NOTES:

  • Removed reference to RecordLinkagepackage which was removed from CRAN.

PGRdup 0.2.3.42019-09-19

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • MergeKW - Updated regular expressions to be PCRE2 compliant.
  • read.genesys - Updated for reading of doi field.
  • DoubleMetaphone - Fixed issue with underlying C code with ‘strncpy’. Changed all specified bound depending on the length of the source argument to that of destination argument.

PGRdup 0.2.3.32018-01-13

OTHER NOTES:

  • Use of packages in Suggests (eg. microbenchmark) made conditional to avoid problems when they are not available for an OS.

PGRdup 0.2.3.22017-08-04

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • DoubleMetaphone - Fixed memory leak issues in underlying C code.

OTHER NOTES:

  • Minor corrections in vignette.
  • Added welcome message.
  • Added version history to vignette
  • Replaced all 1:nrow() and 1:length() usage in function with seq_len(nrow()) and seq_len(length()) respectively.
  • Added package to github.
  • Added package documentation website (https://aravind-j.github.io/PGRdup/) as a github page with pkgdown.
  • Added copyright to Authors@R along with original contributors for the underlying C code for DoubleMetaphone.

PGRdup 0.2.3.12017-03-15

OTHER NOTES:

  • Registered native routines in the C code for DoubleMetaphone.

PGRdup 0.2.32017-02-01

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • KWCounts - Fixed error in case of large number of exceptions and fixed bug regarding non-exact removal of keyword exceptions.
  • ProbDup - Changed code with a column vector specifying the columns having with=FALSE argument to the new preferred syntax in data.table.
  • ViewProbDup - Fixed error ‘formal argument “axis.ticks.y” matched by multiple actual arguments’.
  • ViewProbDup - Fixed bug in case when all factor names in select argument are not present in factor.db1 and/or factor.db2, the function stops. Now it gives an warning and stops only when none of the factor names in select are present in factor.db*.

OTHER NOTES:

  • Added rmarkdown to Suggests field in DESCRIPTION, as prompted by Jan Górecki.

PGRdup 0.2.2.12016-03-09

OTHER NOTES:

  • Fixed memory access error in src/fdouble_metaphone.c (Thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley)

PGRdup 0.2.22016-03-05

NEW FUNCTIONS:

  • read.genesys - Convert ‘Darwin Core - Germplasm’ zip archive to a flat file.
  • ViewProbDup - Visualize the probable duplicate sets retrieved in a ProbDup object.

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • ReconstructProbDup - Fixed bug regarding failure to retrieve db2 fields when method “c” is used.
  • ProbDup - Updated code after bugfix in stringdist package (stringdistmatrix: output was transposed when length(a)==1).

OTHER NOTES:

  • Changed the contact email addresses of four authors (including maintainer) in DESCRIPTION.
  • Updated the vignette and README.md with the details of new functions.

PGRdup 0.2.12015-07-23

NEW FUNCTIONS:

  • SplitProbDup - Split an object of class ProbDup.
  • MergeProbDup - Merges two objects of class ProbDup.
  • KWCounts - Generates keyword counts from database fields.
  • print.KWIC - Prints summary of an object of class KWIC to console.
  • print.ProbDup - Prints summary of an object of class ProbDup to console.

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

  • ProbDup - Modified the phonetic matching for better handling of strings with digits.
  • ProbDup - Fixed throwing of error when no duplicate sets are retrieved.
  • ProbDup - Fixed issue regarding memory out error when large number of exceptions are there.
  • ProbDup - Further converted code to use data.table package for greater efficiency and speed.
  • ProbDup - Fixed bug regarding inconsistent matching when method “b” is used.
  • ProbDup - Reduced the dimensions of the string matching matrices produced for greater efficiency and speed.
  • MergeKW - Modified for better handling of regex special characters.
  • ReconstructProbDup - Modified to ignore sets with counts less than 2 after reconstruction.

OTHER NOTES:

  • Edited README.md formatting.
  • Added diagram, microbenchmark and wordcloud (required for vignette) to suggests field in DESCRIPTION.
  • Added imports to functions from methods, stats and utils as R CMD check --as-cran now checks code usage (via codetools) with only the base package attached.
  • Dropped the abbreviation PGR in the title in DESCRIPTION as it is mentioned in the description text.

VIGNETTE:

  • Added vignette “An Introduction to PGRdup package”.

PGRdup 0.2.0

  • First release