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@tonyfischetti tonyfischetti released this 05 May 19:29
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v1.6
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(straight from the NEWS.md file)

new features

  1. Wrote a translation layer to translate more human-readable aliases
    of every WorldCat SRU search index to their formal name. The
    worldcat_api_search function now uses this by default. You can still use
    the formal names, and even mix codes in the same query. The function
    documentation has been updated to reflect these new aliases.

  2. A vignette on how to use the WorldCat search API is now available
    with a ton of very useful information.

  3. Added dt_na_breakdown function.

bug fixes

  1. print.progress conditional now works for Location and Search API functions

  2. Fixed a bug where if the number of search results was an exact multiple
    of 100, the search api function wouldn't return anything

improvements

  1. WorldCat API functions will now error if no WSKEY is provided
    (either with options("libbib.wskey"=...) or explicitly
    in the formal parameters

  2. WorldCat Search function now tolerant of newlines and multiple
    spaces. Now long queries can be look neat!

  3. More of the diagnostic output now uses message instead of print or cat

  4. If no Search API results are returned, the function prints the any
    diagnostic message returned from the Search API
    (things like Query syntax operators and unsupported indexes)

  5. get_clean_names and dt_set_clean_names will now never produce
    duplicate column names

  6. dt_keep_cols will warn user if a supplied column name doesn't
    exist in the supplied data.table

  7. dt_add_to_col_names will, by default, error if any of the new
    names create any duplicate column names (not setting the new
    names). If TRUE, all the column names are made unique,
    potentially renaming excluded column names that were not supposed
    to be changed.

  8. Added option in dt_counts_and_percents (and dt_na_breakdown)
    to specify a big.mark which will be used to separate every
    three digits of the count. If FALSE (the default) the count
    will remain and integer.

small breaking changes

  1. marc_008_get_info no longer returns the original publication
    date by default

  2. excluding "questionable dates" in marc_008_get_info just NAs
    character position 6="q", now

  3. The print.api.responses parameter in the Classify API functions has
    been changed to debug to be more consistent with the other API functions.

  4. num_total column in search results has been renamed the (more descriptive)
    total_wc_results

  5. By default, get_clean_names and dt_set_clean_names will convert
    all upper case characters to lower case. This can be overidden with
    by setting the lower parameter (in both) to FALSE.

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