NEWS

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yulab.utils 0.2.4.001

• improve chunked_array correctness/performance and API (2026-02-11, Wed)
  • fix length() for empty chunked_array
  • make [ support NA/negative/logical indices and speed up multi-extract
  • make c2() preserve chunked_array type when one side is empty
  • export as_chunked_array() and add c.chunked_array()

yulab.utils 0.2.4 (2026-02-02)

• stabilize cache TTL unit test for r-devel checks (2026-02-02, Mon)

yulab.utils 0.2.3 (2025-12-15)

• download_yulab_file (2025-12-15, Mon)
• add unit test (2025-12-08, Mon)
• Extend cache system with TTL, pruning, persistence and memoization (2025-12-08, Mon)
  • update_cache_item(item, elements, ttl=) sets per-entry expiration
  • get_cache_element(item, elements, default=, prune_expired=) supports default values and auto-pruning of expired entries
  • with_cache(item, key, compute, ttl=) computes and caches results (returns cached value on hit)
  • prune_cache_item(item) prunes expired entries; rm_cache_entry(item, key) removes a single entry
  • cache_list_items() and cache_size() list items and estimate total cache size
  • cache_save(path) and cache_load(path) serialize and restore the cache environment
• update man (2025-12-08, Mon)
• load_OrgDb() to load OrgDb object (2025-12-04, Thu)
  • move from 'GOSemSim'
• parse_ratio to parse ratio string, e.g., "1/2" (2025-12-04, Thu)
  • move from 'DOSE'
• set check_pkg as an alias of check_packages (2025-12-01, Mon)

yulab.utils 0.2.2 (2025-12-01)

• add error handling functions (2025-12-01, Mon)
  • yulab_abort()
  • yulab_warn()
  • yulab_inform()
• check input validity with detailed error messages (2025-12-01, Mon)
  • check_input()
  • check_package()
  • check_file()
  • check_range()
  • check_directory()
• quiet() to suppress messages and output from x (2025-12-01, Mon)
• add subdir parameter in install_zip and install_zip_gh (2025-09-09, Tue)
• where return the full path of a command, "" if not found (2025-09-01, Mon)
  • internally call which for OSX and Linux and where for Windows

yulab.utils 0.2.1 (2025-08-19)

• export user_dir() (2025-08-16, Sat)

yulab.utils 0.2.0 (2025-01-29)

• bug fixed in get_caller_package() (2025-01-08, Wed)

yulab.utils 0.1.9 (2025-01-07)

• c2() to concate two vectors into a 'chunked_array' object (2024-12-03, Tue)

yulab.utils 0.1.8 (2024-11-07)

• add new citation (The Innovation 2024) (2024-11-07, Thu)
• pload() now supports github package (2024-11-06, Wed)
• bug fixed in pkg_ref() (2024-08-26, Mon)

yulab.utils 0.1.7 (2024-08-26)

• has_internet() for testing internet connection (2024-08-26, Mon)
• pkg_ref() to access textVersion of package reference (2024-08-21, Wed)
• export str_detect() (20024-08-19, Mon)
• user_dir() to setup user data dir (20024-08-17, Sat)
• which_os() to return the system name
• has_bin() to check whether a command is exist in the system

yulab.utils 0.1.6 (2024-08-17)

• mydownload() for downloading online file (2024-08-17, Sat)
  • internally use 'httr2' and is 'https' friendly
• update bib_ggtree() and bib_knowledge() with all previous related publications (2024-08-12, Mon)
• remove memory caching and disable file cache by default in yread() and yread_tsv() (2024-07-27, Sat)
• bib_ggtree() and bib_knowledge() (2024-07-27, Sat)

yulab.utils 0.1.5 (2024-07-26)

• yulab_msg() for startup message of packages developed by YuLab (2024-07-26, Fri)

yulab.utils 0.1.4 (2024-01-28)

• str_extract() to extract substring using a regular expression pattern (2024--01-25, Thu)

yulab.utils 0.1.3 (2024-01-08)

• with cache ability (2023-12-27, Wed)
  • initial_cache()
  • initial_cache_item()
  • get_cache()
  • get_cache_item()
  • get_cache_element()
  • rm_cache_item()
  • rm_cache()

yulab.utils 0.1.2 (2023-12-22)

• mv translate functions to the 'fanyi' package (2023-12-14, Thu)
• tools to switch from PCRE or TRE in regular expression (2023-12-13, Wed)

yulab.utils 0.1.1 (2023-12-11)

• use normalizePath() in o() to convert file paths to canonical form (2023-10-06, Fri, #4)
• change the default parameter, ref = "master" to ref = "HEAD" in the install_zip_gh() function to use the default branch of the GitHub repo (2023-10-02, Mon)

yulab.utils 0.1.0 (2023-09-20)

• install_zip() allows both binary and source zip files (2023-09-20, Wed)
• pload() for loading package with the ability to install it if not available (2023-09-16, Sat)
• get_dependencies() and packageTitle() (2023-09-11, Mon)
• import 'fs' and 'digest' (2023-09-07, Thu)

yulab.utils 0.0.9 (2023-09-01)

• ls2df() convert list of vector to a data.frame (2023-09-01, Fri)

yulab.utils 0.0.8 (2023-08-22)

• mat2list() and combinations() (2023-08-22, Tue)
• remove default 'params' setting in yread_tsv() (2023-08-15, Tue)

yulab.utils 0.0.7 (2023-08-09)

• update check_pkg() to call rlang::check_installed() with reason set automatically (2023-08-03, Thu)
• yread() and yread_tsv() that read file with caching (2023-08-02, Wed)
• rbindlist() to rbind a list (2023-08-01, Tue)
• exec() to run system command (2023-06-19, Mon)
• scale_range() to normalize data by range (2023-06-18, Sun)

yulab.utils 0.0.6 (2022-12-20)

• mat2df() to convert matrix to a tidy data frame (2022-12-20, Tue)
• str_starts() and str_ends() (2022-07-29, Fri)

yulab.utils 0.0.5 (2022-06-30)

• get_fun_from_pkg() outputs friendly message if the pkg is not installed (2022-06-08, Wed)
• show_in_excel(), CRANpkg(), Biocpkg(), Githubpkg(), mypkg() (2021-10-13, Wed)

yulab.utils 0.0.4 (2021-10-09)

• str_wrap() (2021-10-09, Sat)

yulab.utils 0.0.3

• read.cb() (2021-08-17)

yulab.utils 0.0.2 (2021-08-16)

• o(), install_zip(), get_fun_from_pkg()

yulab.utils 0.0.1

• is.installed(), scihub_dl(), sudo_install()