NEWS

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ngramr 1.10.0 (2025-01-10)

• NOTE: this is a major release and removes some functionality
• Update for new corpuses
• Remove the add_count option (no data provided by Google)
• Remove drop_corpus (Google no longer supports the :corpus operator for the current corpus)

ngramr 1.9.1-1.9.3

• Fix package after more changes to the Google Ngram Viewer website

ngramr 1.9.0 (2022-10-07)

• Fix package after latest changes to the Google Ngram Viewer website

ngramr 1.8.3 (2022-09-25)

• Improved error handling

ngramr 1.8.2 (2022-09-20)

• Suppress testing of all examples that make internet calls (fail gracefully)

ngramr 1.8.1 (2022-09-18)

• Handle offline state
• Skip testing if offline

ngramr 1.8.0 (2022-09-17)

• Incremented version to reflect that 1.7.7 was a major release
• Rolled back use of |> for compatibility with earlier versions of R

ngramr 1.7.7 (2022-09-10)

• Update for changes in ngram viewer website
• New corpus names (e.g. eng_2019 changed to en_2019)

ngramr 1.7.6

• Drop use of lifecycle badges
• Add markdown format NEWS file

ngramr 1.7.5 (2022-01-08)

• Tidied fromJSON call
• Started to use lifecycle in documentation (ngrami)

ngramr 1.7.4 (2021-05-13)

• Imposed version dependency for dplyr to ensure relocate available

ngramr 1.7.3

• Updated documentation to provide details of return values

ngramr 1.7.2 (2020-08-24)

• Change download code to use 'url' to ensure code works behind a proxy server
• Addressed CRAN submission requirements

ngramr 1.7.1

• Change year_start default to 1800 in documentation

ngramr 1.7.0

• Comprehensive refactor of underlying code
• More robust error/warning handling
• Dropped the "tag" argument from ngram functions

ngramr 1.6.5

• Fix case_sensitive attribute

ngramr 1.6.4

• Fix error in corpus count dataset

ngramr 1.6.0

• Update to address issue (#26) resulting from change in the format of Google Ngram Viewer webpage

ngramr 1.5.0

• Incorporated pull changes #22, @seancarmody
• Make wildcard searches expand to all terms
• Error out on server answer "Please try again later." 1a655f3
• Fix setting default corpus. 0b22dc4
• scale functions: do not explicitly set name, allow overwrite. 3a21061
• Allow passing through additional parameters to ngram_single. ac6b1cc
• For wildcard searches, drop the cumulated (All) column
• Added travis-ci testing

ngramr 1.4.5 (2014-08-31)

• Fixed problems with (some) advanced operators

ngramr 1.4.4

• Removed debugging from ngrami

ngramr 1.4.3 (2014-02-01)

• Fixed the Pulser bug

ngramr 1.4.2 (2013-12-31)

• Fix accented character encoding problem on Windows

ngramr 1.4.1

• Improve ssl handling (refer Hadley's comment here: http://www.statsravingmad.com/blog/statistics/a-tiny-rcurl-headache/)

ngramr 1.4.0 (2013-10-20)

Google has switched to SSL for the N-gram viewer and the format of the web-pages has changed. This means that earlier versions of the package are completely broken. This release fixes this major problem.

ngramr 1.3.2

• Add README.md to .Rbuildignore to remove from CRAN

ngramr 1.3.1

• Fix count for n-grams with n>1, including a "fudge" for 2012 corpuses

ngramr 1.3.0 (2013-08-04)

• Add option to display long-form corpus name
• Warn about smoothing >0 for geoms other than "line"
• Tidy documentation for print.ngram
• ngram and ngrami return S3 class "ngram"
• Format print for ngram objects
• ggram can take either a list of phrases or an ngram object

ngramr 1.2.4

• Add option to relabel y-axis
• Add word counts option to ngram
• Change ggplot2 and scales from Requires to Suggests

ngramr 1.2.3

• Prevent use of complex operators in case insensitive searches
• Warn about character substitution

ngramr 1.2.2 (2013-07-23)

• CRAN release version
• More efficient handling of escaped Unicode (thanks Hadley http://stackoverflow.com/a/17787736/1543437)
• Fix package checking problems associated with plyr

ngramr 1.2.1

• Tidy Google theme

ngramr 1.2.0

• First semi-official release. All future development moved to the 'develop' branch.
• Allow case insensitive plotting with ggram
• Avoid reshape/reshape2 conflicts (thanks to Francois Briatte)
• Pass arbitrary geoms to ggram
• New function ngramw to return results in "wide" format
• Removed wide option from ggram and ggrami
• Better handling of legends when ignore_case = TRUE
• Error trapping long phrase lists
• Google theme option

ngramr 1.1

• Added plot wrapper ggram
• Detect invalid corpus names

ngramr 1.0

• Initial release of the ngramr package