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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  • Superseded: The as_* functions are superseded by the functions of the same name in the ‘broadcast’ package, and will be removed from ‘tinycodet’ in a later version.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

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

tinycodet 0.1.0.1

  • Corrected the LICENSE file.

tinycodet 0.1

  • Initial release.