PGRdup 0.2.3.9

OTHER NOTES:

• Fixed CITATION.

PGRdup 0.2.3.8

OTHER NOTES:

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

PGRdup 0.2.3.7

UPDATED FUNCTIONS:

• ValidatePrimKey - Fixed xtfrm on data.frame.

VIGNETTE:

• Removed cairo dependency.

PGRdup 0.2.3.6

VIGNETTE:

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

PGRdup 0.2.3.5

OTHER NOTES:

• Removed reference to RecordLinkagepackage which was removed from CRAN.

PGRdup 0.2.3.4

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 0.2.3.3

OTHER NOTES:

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

PGRdup 0.2.3.2

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 0.2.3.1

OTHER NOTES:

• Registered native routines in the C code for DoubleMetaphone.

PGRdup 0.2.3

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 0.2.2.1

OTHER NOTES:

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

PGRdup 0.2.2

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 0.2.1

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