Sat, 02 Dec 2023

dang 0.0.16: New Features, Some Maintenance

A new release of my mixed collection of things package dang package arrived at CRAN a little while ago. 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 blogged about as well as the checkCRANStatus() function tweeted about by Tim Taylor. And more so take a look.

This release brings a number of updates, including a rather nice improvement to the market monitor making updates buttery smooth and not flickering (with big thanks to Paul Murrell who calmly pointed out once again … that base R does of course have the functionality I was seeking) as well as three new functions (!!) and then a little maintenance on the -Wformat print format string issue that kept ‘everybody’ busy this week.

The NEWS entry follows.

Changes in version 0.0.16 (2023-12-02)

• Added new function str.language() based on post by Bill Dunlap

• Added new argument sleep in intradayMarketMonitor

• Switched to dev.hold() and dev.flush() in intradayMarketMonitor with thanks to Paul Murrell

• Updated continued integration setup, twice, and package badges

• Added new function shadowedPackages

• Added new function limitDataTableCores

• Updated two error() calls to updated tidyCpp signature to not tickle -Wformat warnings under R-devel

• Updated two URL to please link checks in R-devel

• Switch two tests for variable of variable to is.* and inherits(), respectively

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Fri, 29 Oct 2021

dang 0.0.15: Small Correction

A bug-fix release of the dang package arrived at CRAN a little while ago. 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 tweeted about by Tim Taylor.

This release corrects a small mistake wrapping extern "C" { ... } around code that is not actually C but C++ … which g++ kept silent about yet clang++ complains about, correctly. So CRAN asked me to correct this, which this version does.

The NEWS entry follows.

Changes in version 0.0.15 (2021-10-26)

• Corrected scope of 'extern "C"' declaration to the actually C-callable function (noticed by clang++, change requested by CRAN)

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Sun, 17 Oct 2021

dang 0.0.14: Several Updates

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.cpp for readability.

• More robust title display in intradayMarketMonitor.R.

• New C++-based function to read and convert encoding via the R-supplied iconv library, noted a potential variability.

• New function wday returning day of the week as integer.

• The signature to as.data.table was standardized.

• A new function rollMinMax was added illustrating use of the NumVec class from tidyCpp.

• The configure script 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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Wed, 17 Feb 2021

dang 0.0.13: New intradayMarketMonitor

A new release of the dang package got to CRAN earlier today, a few months since the last relase. The dang package regroups a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example lsos() from a StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!) is one, this overbought/oversold price band plotter from an older blog post is another.

This release adds one function I tweeted about one month ago. It takes a function Josh Ulrich originally tweeted about in November with a reference to this gist. I refactored this into a proper functions and polished a few edges: the data now properly rolls off after a fixed delay (of two days), should work with other symbols (though we both focused on ^GSPC as a free (!!) real-time SP500 index (albeit only during trading hours), properly gaps between trading days and more. You can simply invoke it via

dang::intradayMarketMonitor()

and a chart just like the one here will grow (though there is no “state”: if you stop it, or reboot, or … the plot starts from scratch).

The short NEWS entry follows.

Changes in version 0.0.13 (2021-02-17)

• New function intradayMarketMonitor based on an earlier gist-posted snippet by Josh Ulrich.

• The CI setup was generalized as a test for 'r-ci' and is used essentially unchanged with three different providers.

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Wed, 14 Oct 2020

dang 0.0.12: Two new functions

A new release of the dang package is now on CRAN, roughly one year after the last 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 (!!) is one, this overbought/oversold price band plotter from an older blog post is another. More recently added were helpers for data.table to xts conversion and a git repo root finder.

This release adds two functions. One was mentioned just days ago in a tweet by Nathan and is a reworked version of something Colin tweeted about a few weeks ago: a little data wrangling off the kewl rtweet to find maximally spammy accounts per search topic. In other words those who include more than ‘N’ hashtags for given search term. The other is something I, if memory serves, picked up a while back on one of the lists: a base R function to identify non-ASCII characters in a file. It is a C function that is not directly exported by and hence no accessible, so we put it here (with credits, of course). I mentioned it yesterday when announcing tidyCpp as I this C function was the starting point for the new tidyCpp wrapper around some C API of R functions.

The (very short) NEWS entry follows.

Changes in version 0.0.12 (2020-10-14)

• New functions muteTweets and checkPackageAsciiCode.

• Updated CI setup.

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Thu, 24 Oct 2019

dang 0.0.11: Small improvements

A new release of what may be my most minor package, dang, is now on CRAN. The dang package regroups a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example lsos() from a StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!) is one, this overbought/oversold price band plotter from an older blog post is another. More recently added were helpers for data.table to xts conversion and a git repo root finder.

Some of these functions (like lsos()) where hanging in my .Rprofile, other just lived in scripts so some years ago I started to collect them in a package, and as of February this is now on CRAN too for reasons that are truly too bizarre to go about. It’s a weak and feeble variant of the old Torvalds line about backups and ftp sites …

As I didn’t blog about the 0.0.10 release, the NEWS entry for both follows:

Changes in version 0.0.11 (2019-10-24)

• New functions getGitRoot, inGit and isConnected.

• Improved function as.data.table.xts.

Changes in version 0.0.10 (2019-02-10)

• Initial CRAN release. See ChangeLog for earlier changes.

Courtesy of 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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