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searcher 0.1.0

Features

Documentation

Package Website

  • Enhanced _pkgdown.yml with a more organized structure and improved navigation
    • Set the theme to use Bootstrap 5’s Flatly theme for a modern look
  • Added categorized function reference sections for better discoverability

Function Documentation

  • Reorganized search functions into separate help pages by category:
    • Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.)
    • AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)
    • Community sites (StackOverflow, Twitter, etc.)
    • Code repositories (GitHub, BitBucket, etc.)
  • Implemented @family tags to group related functions in the “See also” section
  • Added more specific, relevant examples for each function
  • Added brief descriptions of each AI service’s strengths and characteristics

Deprecations

searcher 0.0.7

CRAN release: 2024-02-04

Features

searcher 0.0.6

CRAN release: 2021-07-24

Features

Bug Fixes

  • Modified URLs to search engines to pass CRAN checks.
  • Removed documentation URLs to Ecosia search engine as they return 404: Not Found.

Deployment

searcher 0.0.5

CRAN release: 2020-02-06

Features

  • Added search portal:
  • Added ability to set default package actions. (#7, #20)
    • searcher.launch_delay controls how long the user remains in R prior to the browser opening. Default is 0.5 seconds.
    • searcher.use_rstudio_viewer specifies whether RStudio’s viewer pane should open the link instead of a web browser. Default is FALSE until RStudio’s sandbox issue is resolved.
    • searcher.default_keyword: Suffix keyword to focus search results between either "base" or "tidyverse". Default is "base".
  • Added option to launch RStudio’s Viewer pane to display search results.

Breaking Changes

  • Function factory or a closure approach-based approach is now used to create search portal functions search_*() through searcher().
  • searcher() function has lost the ability to specify rlang to address an unevaluated promise issue.

Fixes

  • Addressed internal vignette index name being used as the title.

Deployment

searcher 0.0.4

CRAN release: 2019-07-05

Features

  • Added search portal:
    • search_rstudio_community() or search_rscom(): Searches on RStudio Community. (#13, #17)
  • Added vignette on search patterns (#18).

Changes

  • Renamed search portal:
  • Update the README overview for the project. (#16)

Deployment

  • Improved TravisCI testing deployments by testing across an array and using all CPUs allotted to build the container. (#16)
  • Modify thresholding for code coverage rejections. (#16)

searcher 0.0.3

CRAN release: 2018-07-01

Features

  • Added search portal:
    • search_ixquick(): Searches with ixquick. (#8, #6)

Changes

  • Append r programming to major search engines by default (#11, #10)
  • Add ixquick as a valid engine to search_site(). (#8, #6)
  • Included link to repository and bug tracker to DESCRIPTION.

searcher 0.0.2

CRAN release: 2018-01-16

Features

UX

  • Created a browse_url() that checks to see if it is in interactive mode before trying to open a web browser 0.5 seconds after call.