NEWS

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fanyi 0.1.1 (2026-02-04)

• fixed API key passing in chat_request() and .deepseek_query_messages(): allow passing api_key directly without needing to set via set_translate_option() (2026-01-26, Mon)
• restore ChatGLM compatibility: revert to pre-0.1.0 implementation to fix JSON parsing errors with glm-4.7 model (2026-02-14, Fri)

fanyi 0.1.0 (2026-01-18)

• chat_request() to chat with LLM (DeepSeek, QWen, ChatGLM) (2026-01-18, Sat)
• update qwen_translate() to use standard request instead of SSE (2026-01-18, Sat)
• polish documentation (2026-01-18, Sat)

fanyi 0.0.9 (2025-12-17)

• support QWen and DeepSeek (2025-12-17, Wed, #39, #47)

fanyi 0.0.8 (2025-08-28)

• update citation information (2024-08-21, Wed)
• fixed issue of 'chatglm' (2024-08-07, Wed)
• update ydict() as youdao change its content. (2024-05-30, Thu)

fanyi 0.0.7 (2024-04-14)

• add claims in the DESCRIPTION that this package is not affiliated with any of the online translators and we take no responsibility (2024-04-14, Sun)
• fanyi_has_appkey() to test whether the appkey has set (2024-02-12, Mon)
  • can be used in conditional examples
• add version dependency: R >= 4.2.0 and ggfun >= 0.1.3 (2024-01-18, Thu)
• remove quote marks in chatglm_translate() output (2024-01-10, Wed)

fanyi 0.0.6 (2024-01-09)

• chatglm_translate() to support 'chatglm' translation (2024-01-07, Sun, #18)
• tencent_translate() to support 'tencent' translation (2024-01-06, Sat, #17)
• caiyun_translate() to support 'caiyun' translation (2024-01-05, Fri, #16)
• name2sci() to convert species common name to scientific name (2023-12-31, Sun)
• ydict() to support youdao dictionary (2023-12-29, Fri)
• update gene_summary() to use cache utilities provided by 'yulab.utils' (2023-12-28, Thu)
• 'httr2' migration (2023-12-28, Thu, #11, #12)
• hold on a second and try again if no result obtained. (2023-12-27, Wed)
• internal function to query translate text now output as online translator response and use a S3 method get_translate_text to extract the translated text
• volcengine_translate() to support 'huoshan' engine (2023-12-25, Mon, #8)
• search_gene() as we believe symbol2entrez() is not restricted to search symbols (2023-12-25, Mon)
• add citation info (2023-12-24, Sun)
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.21.572729
• fixed #4 issue when multiple words translated into identical target (2023-12-22, Fri)
  • e.g., 'esophageal carcinoma' and 'esophageal cancer' are translated into one identical Chinese word
  • now the translated word will be labeled with original words to differentiate
• get_summary() and translators with cache (2023-12-21, Thu)
• youdao_translate() supports using youdao translate service (2023-12-20, Wed, #2)
• gene_summary() to query gene summary and symbol2entrez() to convert ID, both using NCBI Gene database (2023-12-19, Tue)
• translate_ggplot() allows translating axis labels of a ggplot (2023-12-19, Tue)
• bing_translate() supports using bing translate service (2023-12-19, Tue, #1)
• introduce 'source' parameter in get_translate_appkey() (2023-12-17, Sun)
• set_translate_option() supports storing multiple appid and key for different translators (although currently only 'baidu' is supported) (2023-12-16, Sat)

fanyi 0.0.5 (2023-12-15)

• translate() which is a generic interface and would expand to allow using other translators (2023-12-14, Thu)
• set_translate_option() allows users to use their own appid and key and it is a must now (2023-12-13, Wed)
• cn2en() and cn2en() to translate between English and Chinese (2023-12-12, Tue)
• baidu_translate() to translate sentences (2023-12-11, Mon)