NEWS

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fritools 4.6.0.9000

• FIXME

fritools 4.6.0 (2026-02-18)

• Added convert_umlauts_to_utf8().
• Added convert_to_power_of_ten() and convert_from_power_of_ten(), df_to_powers_of_ten() and df_from_powers_of_ten().
• split_code_file() now also keeps headers.

fritools 4.5.0 (2025-05-12)

• Added escape_non_ascii().
• Added is_scalar().
• Added is_convertible2numeric().
• Added is_true().
• Added file_string().

fritools 4.4.0 (2024-12-16)

• Added char2factor().
• Added rownames2col().
• Added pause()
• Added string2words().
• Added get_session_string().
• Added runsed().
• Added tests for relative_difference().
• Harden testing for FVA against upper case user names.

fritools 4.3.0 (2024-01-26)

• Added get_german_umlauts().

fritools 4.2.0 (2023-11-18)

• Added Sloboda's growth function: sloboda().

fritools 4.1.1 (2023-08-15)

• Fixed CRAN notes on Escaped LaTeX specials.

fritools 4.1.0 (2023-06-12)

• Renamed the package to fritools.
• Add rename_package().
• We do not check on the number of columns anymore since utils::read.table() seems do get the columns right anyways. However it manages.
• find_files(): changed default to argument pattern from ".*\\.[RrSs]$|.*\\.[RrSs]nw$" to NULL.
• Hardened find_files() against failing patterns on windows.
• is_running_on_fvafrcu_machines() now has value bwi for argument type. This is TRUE for the nfi notebook only.
• Add function grep_file().

fritools 4.0.0

• Got rid of suggested packages packager and rasciidoc.
• Switched from RUnit to tinytest. Excluded RUnit tests from tarball due to CRAN requirement. I can still find them in (https://gitlab.com/fvafrcu/fritools/-/tree/master/inst/runit_tests).

fritools 3.7.0 (2022-08-11)

• Changed argument order for find_files() from names, path, pattern to path, pattern, names for convenience.
• Added relative_difference(), a convenience wrapper to base::all.equal()
• Added column_sums(), a convenience wrapper to base::colSums().

fritools 3.6.0 (2022-08-05)

• split_code_file() now works with files with hidden functions (i.e. function whose names start with a period).
• Under unix, clipboard_path() now prints the path as file.path to the console.
• Added count_groups(), a specialized wrapper to stats::aggregate(), gives results similar to dplyr::count().

fritools 3.5.1 (2022-07-14)

• view() now normalizes the path first in order to deal with blanks in the path.
• Added example to vignette.
• Linted exhaustively.

fritools 3.5.0 (2022-05-20)

• Added delete_trailing_blank_lines().
• view() now uses base::shQuote() under Unix.

fritools 3.4.0 (2022-04-26)

• Made vim() warn instead of throw when called non-interactively.
• touch() now digests paths to several files. Replaced argument path by ... but the ui did not change.
• vim() now digests paths to several files. Replaced argument file by ... but the ui did not change.
• file_save() now digests paths to several files. Replaced argument x by ... but the ui did not change.
• file_copy() now digests paths to several files.
• Added delete_trailing_whitespace().
• Added develop_test().
• Added wipe_tempdir().
• Added 'clipboard_path()` to help me with paths under Windows.
• view() now tries to use program only if it is installed.
• is_files_current() now warns, if any file is newer than Sys.time().

fritools 3.3.0 (2022-03-22)

• Added view() as an unix equivalent to shell.exec().
• Added vim() as a wrapper to file.edit().
• Added file_copy() to force copying while backing up.
• Added file_save() to create backup copies for files.
• Added appropriate error messages to fromto() and allowing for NA in its arguments from and to to read from first item and to last item.

fritools 3.2.0 (2022-03-09)

• Added function round_half_away_from_zero() that implements commercial rounding.
• Added function str2num() to convert string representations of (potentially German) numbers.

fritools 3.1.0 (2022-01-03)

• Added a global option to pass .GlobalEnv as default environment to wipe_clean().
• Added calls to Sys.sleep(1) to unit testing to ensure that the files' time stamps are correct.

fritools 3.0.0 (2021-12-14)

Major changes

• Added function check_ascii_file() to check for number of lines and fields of an ascii file. This is used to now check whether files read via read_csv() are read completely. Otherwise an error is thrown. bulk_read_csv() now knows an argument stop_on_error to stop reading if one of the files in the bulk fails to be read.

Minor changes

• set_path() now adds reading and writing times to the path. So we can compare reading times with modification times on disk.
• Added argument force to get_path() to enable unit testing.

fritools 2.5.0 (2021-12-07)

• Added argument differences_only to function compare_vectors().
• Added function is_path.
• Added function fromto.
• Added function find_missing_see_also and find_missing_family.
• Function set_path now sets a path attribute which itself has a file time modification date attribute.

fritools 2.4.0 (2021-11-15)

• Added argument select to function find_files(). This allows us to select files by their attributes, like file size.
• Changed argument default for recursive for find_files() from TRUE to FALSE.

fritools 2.3.0 (2021-09-27)

• Added functions is_files_current() and is_difftime_less().
• Added function is_valid_primary_key() from wehamr.
• Function convert_umlauts_to_ascii() now converts rownames, too.

fritools 2.2.1 (2021-07-31)

• Fixed function convert_umlauts_to_tex().
• Fixed unit test that threw an error when running unit test on CRAN M1mac.

fritools 2.2.0 (2021-07-26)

• Added functions to read an write (bulks of) CSV files.
• Added csv2csv(), which converts German to standard CSV.

fritools 2.1.0 (2021-07-14)

• Added convert_umlauts_to_ascii().
• Added file_last_modified().
• Added is_cran(), a copy of fda::CRAN().
• touch() now creates directories as needed.
• get_path() and set_path() now throw errors, if a path to get is not set or if a path to set is already set and argument overwrite is not TRUE.

fritools 2.0.0 (2021-05-31)

Major changes

• search_files() now throws an error if no matches are found.

Minor changes

• Added function search_rows().
• Added function is_success().
• Added function convert_umlauts_to_tex().

fritools 1.4.0 (2021-03-20)

• Added function split_code_file().
• Added function weighted_variance().
• Added function tapply() to fix the base version which will not digest data.frames as input.

fritools 1.3.0 (2021-02-17)

• Extended is_running_on_fvafrcu_machines() to catch a new machine.
• Added function with_dir() as this is often the only function I import from package withr making withr a dependency.
• Added function get_boolean_envvar(), get_run_r_tests() is now a wrapper to that.
• Added function is_of_length_zero().
• Added function get_unique_string().
• Added function is_r_cmd_check().
• Added function run_r_tests_for_known_hosts().
• Added functions get_path() and set_path().
• The matrix returned by compare_vectors now has named rows.

fritools 1.2.0 (2021-01-27)

• Skipping tests for search_files() if R has not at least version 4.0.0.
• Added function r_cmd_install() as a quick alternative to devtools::install(). devtools calling callr, calling processx::run seemed too bloated for such a simple task.
• Added function compare_vectors() which returns a side-by-side comparison of two vectors.
• Updated test_helper to recognize machines running at the Forest Research Institute of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

fritools 1.1.0 (2021-01-20)

• Fixed buggy regular expression in is_running_on_gitlab_com()
• Added get_options, set_options, is_force; call_conditionally, call_safe; is_installed, is_r_package_installed; is_false, is_null_or_true; search_files, find_files, summary.filesearch and strip_off_attributes from package packager.

fritools 1.0.0 (2021-01-11)

• Got the compilation of utilities from
  • rasciidoc/R/utils.R: *
  • packager/R/is_version_sufficient.R: *
  • rasciidoc/R/is_version_sufficient.R: *
  • document/R/test_helpers.R: *
  • fakemake/R/tools.R: *
  • cleanr/R/utils.R: *
  • bundeswaldinventur/R/utils.R: golden_ratio()
  • cuutils/R/utils.R: *
  • cuutils/R/?.R: ?
  • packager/R/package_version.R