A new release of the dang package arrived at CRAN a couple of hours ago, exactly eight months after the previous release. The dang package regroups a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example lsos() from a StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!), the overbought/oversold price band plotter from an older blog post, the market monitor from the last release as well the checkCRANStatus() function recently tweeted about by Tim Taylor.
This release regroups a few small edits to several functions, adds a sample function for character encoding reading and conversion using a library already used by R (hence “look Ma, no new depends”), adds a weekday helper, and a sample usage (computing rolling min/max values) of a new simple vector class added to tidyCpp (and the function and class need to get another blog post or study …), and an experimental git sha1sum and date marker (as I am not the fan of autogenerated binaries from repos as opposed to marked released meaning: we may see different binary release with the same version number).
The full NEWS entry follows.
Changes in version 0.0.14 (2021-10-17)
Updated continuous integration to run on Linux only.
Edited
checkNonAscii.cppfor readability.More robust title display in
intradayMarketMonitor.R.New C++-based function to read and convert encoding via the R-supplied
iconvlibrary, noted a potential variability.New function
wdayreturning day of the week asinteger.The signature to
as.data.tablewas standardized.A new function
rollMinMaxwas added illustrating use of theNumVecclass from tidyCpp.The
configurescript can record the last commit date and sha1 to automate timestamping builds, but not activated in this release.
checkCRANStatus()now works correctly for single-package lookups (Jordan Mark Barbone in #4).
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo.
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