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# Changelog

Source: `NEWS.md`

## tinycodet 0.7.0

CRAN release: 2026-06-08

- Removed: Removed the `misc` operators.

## tinycodet 0.6.2

CRAN release: 2026-03-05

- Safety fix: The `import_` functions will now trigger an error if called from within a package environment other than ‘tinycodet’.

## tinycodet 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2026-02-15

- Removed: The `as_*` functions have been removed.
  They are superseded by the functions of the same name in the broadcast package.

## tinycodet 0.5.8

CRAN release: 2025-09-21

- Superseded: The `as_*` functions are superseded by the functions of the same name in the ‘broadcast’ package, and will be removed from ‘tinycodet’ in a later version.
- Removed: The infix operators from the DRY category were removed.
- Behaviour change: The matrix operators now only accept a numeric (integer or double) matrix on the right hand side with the same dimensions as the left hand side.
- Performance Improvement: The logical operators are now slightly faster, as they now use R’s own NA checks
- Moved the matrix operators to the DRY category.
- Simplified the matrix operators help page.

## tinycodet 0.5.6

CRAN release: 2025-04-05

- Behaviour change: The import functions no longer import `.Primitive` or `.Internal` functions, to comply with CRAN.
- Behaviour change: `import_as()` now allows hidden (i.e. dot-prefixed) names for `alias` objects.

## tinycodet 0.5.4

CRAN release: 2025-01-09

- Performance improvement: Even more performance improvement for `stri_locate_ith()`; it now internally uses ‘C’ code instead of ‘C++’.

## tinycodet 0.5.3

CRAN release: 2024-07-21

- Behaviour change: the atomic typecasting functions now preserve names, dimensions, and dimnames (instead of all attributes), to be more in line with most of base ‘R’.
- Behaviour change: `pkgs %installed in% lib.loc` will now return `NA` for “packages” that are part of core ‘R’ (i.e. ‘base’, ‘stats’, etc.).
- Behaviour change: All decimal truth testing operators now always give `NA` when `Inf` is compared with `Inf`, or when `-Inf` is compared to `-Inf`.
- Streamlined the internal code of the decimal truth testing operators.
- Added `%s><%` and `%s<>%` as aliases for `%sget%` and `%strim%`, respectively.
- Removed some superfluous text in the import system documentation.
- Re-written one ‘C++’ script to pure ‘C’ code.
- Some of the internal ‘C’ code now support long vectors, when appropriate.
- Small speed improvement in some of the internal code.
- Added new fake packages to the special tests, to perform more thorough tests on the `pversion_` - functions.
- Added even more tests.

## tinycodet 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2024-05-07

- Feature Improvement: `help.import()` now directly evaluates the arguments under `help()` if both arguments `i` and `alias` are missing.
- Feature Improvement: re_exports in `import_as()` can now include functions from core R if necessary, except ‘base’.
- Performance Improvement: Replaced some of the internal code in the import system with ‘C++’ code via ‘Rcpp’ for some performance improvement.
- Bug fix: Fixed a (small) bug, where `help.import()` sometimes gave an unnecessary error, when searching topics of un-exported objects or non-functions via an alias object instead of searching functions directly.
- Bug fix: Fixed a (small) bug where class names were sometimes inconsistently assigned to functions and infix operators exposed by the ‘tinycodet’ import system.
- Removed Feature: Removed the `form()` function, as its use-case is too rare to justify having a whole function for it (with all the tests and maintenance that come with it). I rarely remove functions; this is an exception.
- Fixed some mistakes in the documentation.
- Added more tests.
- `help.import()` can now also be called without any arguments, just like the original `help()` function.
- Moved the atomic type casting functions to the “DRY” category.
- Cleaned up the internal code of the import system a bit.
- Added the current year to the LICENSE file.

## tinycodet 0.4.6

CRAN release: 2024-04-14

- Feature improvement: Relaxed the length restriction on argument `i` in `stri_locate_ith()`. Also improved the performance of `stri_locate_ith()`.
- Tweaked the error messages of `strfind()<-` to be a bit more informative.
- Added `as_cplx()` and `as_raw()` to the atomic typecasting functions.
- Improved the documentation here and there.
- Tweaked description text.
- Added more tests.

## tinycodet 0.4.5

CRAN release: 2024-03-02

- Slight speed improvement of `stri_locate_ith()`.
- New Features: Added the following functions to the “safer functionality” category: form(), `aes_pro()`, `with_pro()`, and `safer_partialmatch()`. Naturally, added tests for these new functions.

## tinycodet 0.4.1

CRAN release: 2024-02-17

- Added an explanation in the string overview help page, regarding the usage of vector recycling.
- Provided additional clarification in the help file for the `%row%` and `%col~%` operators.
- Simplified the internal code of the decimal (in)equality testing operators.
- Added a few more tests.
- Moved `is_wholenumber()` to the decimal truth testing section.
- Argument change: Added the `rt` argument to `strfind()<-`, and moved the `i` and `rt` arguments more to the end of the functions. The `type` argument in `strcut_brk()` can now also directly accept a list produced by `stringi::stri_opts_brkiter()`.

## tinycodet 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2024-01-11

- Clarified in the documentation that `%col~%` and `%row~%` strip attributes.
- Clarified the usage of `merge = FALSE` for pattern `charclass`, in the documentation of the `stri_locate_ith()` function.
- Clarified in the documentation that locked objects are not protected from modification by reference.
- Clarified in the documentation of ‘stringi’ pattern searching infix operators that the `p` argument can also be a character vector of length 1.
- Clarified in the `stri_locate_ith()` documentation that one should not pass the `capture_groups` argument; also clarified how to capture the `ith` group using `stri_locate_ith()`. And clarified that `stri_locate_ith()` does not support long vectors.
- Normalized the links in the “See Also” sections in the documentation.
- Renamed the “str_truth” page to “str_search”, as that makes a little more sense.
- Removed the redundant `stringi::` piece in the example code for `import_LL()`.
- The help file for the `s_pattern` functions is now actually titled “s_pattern”.
- The messages returned by `import_as()` when aliasing packages is now slightly less verbose: removed the line “Methods work like normally”, and replaced the line “Importing packages …” with “Importing packages and registering methods…”.
- The `strcut_brk()` function now includes the `tolist` argument to return a list. Moreover, the `n` argument may now also be specified (`n = -1L` by default).
- More safety checks: Improved safety against malformed conditions in the `transform_if()` function. `stri_locate_ith()` now gives a warning when an empty string or pattern is given. The `help.import()` function now gives an error if neither `topic/package` nor `i/alias` is supplied, instead of just silently doing nothing. The `%sget%` and `%strim%` operators now give an explicit error message if the arguments do not have proper lengths.
- Internal Re-write: `stri_locate_ith()` has now been partially re-written, and now includes ‘C++’ code, making it a bit faster. Also cleaned up the internal code for some other functions here and there.
- Added dependency: ‘Rcpp’ is now added as a dependency, due to the aforementioned partial re-write in ‘C++’.
- New Features: Added `%ss%` to the collection of string arithmetic operators, and added the `strfind()<-` method to the string search operators. One can now supply the `at` argument in the list of the right-hand side for the `%s{}%` operator. Supplying `at = "start"` will check if the pattern appears at the start of a string. Supplying `at = "end"` will check if the pattern appears at the end of a string.
- Optimization: Managed to optimise `stri_locate_ith()` even further. Optimised the ‘subset_if’ operators a bit more. Also optimised the `%n&%`, `%sget%`, `%strim%`, and `%=strtype%` operators a bit more.
- Argument change: The `s_pattern` functions now wrap additional arguments in a list for the user, in case of using vector arguments, preventing potential confusion.
- Argument change: The `type` argument in `stri_locate_ith_boundaries()` is now not a mandatory argument; one can now also supply it through `stri_opts_brikiter()`, to keep it more consistent with the rest of ‘stringi’.
- Tests: Improved the tests for the `s_pattern` operators. Added tests for `stri_locate_ith()` when using argument `merge = FALSE`. Added more error check tests for `help.import()`. Added tests for unequal vector sizes for the logic operators. Added tests for empty condition subsets for `transform_if()`. Added tests for the new functionalities introduced in this version. Added tests for malformed ‘stringi’ pattern searches in all relevant functions.
- Bug fix: There was a small bug where `s_coll()` worked properly when assigned to an object (as usual), but not when called directly (like nested inside a function). This is now fixed.

## tinycodet 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2023-12-11

- Expanded the import system documentation. Also tweaked the documentation of `import_as()` to be make it slightly clearer.
- Expanded the documentation of the `decimal_truth` operators.
- `import_as()` now does not allow more than 10 packages to be loaded under a single alias, to prevent abusive usage of `import_as()`.
- The import system now has a few more tiny safety checks, including checks for widely known meta-packages (such as “fastverse”).
- The `pkg_get_deps()` function now also has the `shared_tidy` argument to ignore the shared ‘tidyverse’ libraries (‘rlang’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘cli’, ‘glue’, and ‘withr’). Also changed the default values of the `recom`, and `rstudioapi` arguments.
- Added the `pkg_get_deps_minimal()` function. Also changed the default arguments of `pkg_get_deps()`.
- Changed the error message for wrong extension specifications: replaced “actual reverse-dependencies” into “actual extensions”.
- Changed the usage of the word “load” to “import” in the import system documentation, to avoid confusion with the concept of loading a package.
- Added the `pversion_` functions to help in checking package versions.
- Removed the “versions” attribute from alias objects, in favour of the aforementioned `pversion_` functions.
- Argument name change: in the `import_as()` function, changed argument name `loadorder` to `import_order`, to avoid confusion with the concept of loading a package.
- Tests: Added more tests.
- Optimization: Minor optimizations for the `import_*` functions and for `transform_if()`.
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug in `pkg_get_deps()` where it didn’t properly ignore all the recommended R-packages when `recom = FALSE`.

## tinycodet 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2023-11-25

- Small tweak to the pdf manual.
- Replaced the incorrect uses of the word “class” with “type” in the atomic type casting help file.
- Improved the performance of `stri_join_mat()`, and produced better examples in both help file and website.
- Fixed incorrect regex usage in one of the examples.

## tinycodet 0.2

CRAN release: 2023-11-01

- Removed or changed “a few functions” in the title, description, introduction help page, and website, as ‘tinycodet’ actually turned out to be somewhat larger than anticipated.
- Fixed the latex issue in the pdf file generation for users using R version < 4.2.0 with the Mac OS.
- Changed the `@name` and `@rdname` parameters of the tinycodet overview help files, such that they get on the top of the pdf file.
- Removed the sentence “Note that only the recommended R-packages actually installed in your system are taken into consideration” in the `pkgs` help file, as this is no longer applicable (the list of recommended R packages is hard coded).
- Expanded the ‘tinycodet_import’ help page with more info.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.6

CRAN release: 2023-10-12

- Replaced usage of `installed.packages()` in the `%installed in%` operator with `find.package()`. Also added the sentence “As pkgs %installed in% lib.loc does not even load a package, the user can safely use it without fearing any unwanted side-effects.” to the help page.
- Replaced usage of `installed.packages()` with a manually specified character vector in the R scripts/functions “internal_functions.R”, “import_misc.R”, “import_inops.R”, “x.import.R”.
- Replaced “” with “” in help page “tinycodet_import”, and set condition for examples.
- Re-implemented the fake packages, but this time preventing false positives using a tip from Duncan Murdoch.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.5

- The fake packages will now only be tested on my GitHub page, and not in the package folder itself, to prevent false positives from CRAN checks.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.4

- Removed the last sentence in the Description of the DESCRIPTION file, which contained the word “vectorized”, because both “vectorised” AND “vectorized” cause CRAN checks to complain.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.3

- Changed all the spellings of the word “vectorised”, to “vectorized”, despite the clear Language field.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.2

- Corrected the ‘Authors@R’ field in the DESCRIPTION file.
- Added ‘Language: en-gb’ to the DESCRIPTION file.
- Removed the “Maintainer” field, as it can be auto-generated from ‘Authors@R’.

## tinycodet 0.1.0.1

- Corrected the LICENSE file.

## tinycodet 0.1

- Initial release.