NEWS

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searcher 0.0.7 (2024-02-04)

Features

• Added search portals:
  • search_grep(): Searches on grep.app. (#35, #37)
  • search_qwant(): Searches on Qwant. (#36)

searcher 0.0.6 (2021-07-24)

Features

• Added search portals:
  • search_ecosia(): Searches on Ecosia. (#31, #32)
  • search_rseek(): Searches on rseek. (#32, thanks @rossellhayes!)

Bug Fixes

• Modified URLs to search engines to pass CRAN checks.
• Removed documentation URLs to Ecosia search engine as they return 404: Not Found.

Deployment

• Updated GitHub Actions for R workflows (#34).
• Added pkgdown website (#34).

searcher 0.0.5 (2020-02-06)

Features

• Added search portal:
  • search_twitter(): Searches on Twitter. (#19, #30)
• Added ability to set default package actions. (#7, #20)
  • searcher.launch_delay controls how long the user remains in R prior to the browser opening. Default is 0.5 seconds.
  • searcher.use_rstudio_viewer specifies whether RStudio's viewer pane should open the link instead of a web browser. Default is FALSE until RStudio's sandbox issue is resolved.
  • searcher.default_keyword: Suffix keyword to focus search results between either "base" or "tidyverse". Default is "base".
• Added option to launch RStudio's Viewer pane to display search results.
  • Note: This feature requires a patch per rstudio/rstudio#2252. (#21, #22)

Breaking Changes

• Function factory or a closure approach-based approach is now used to create search portal functions search_*() through searcher().
• searcher() function has lost the ability to specify rlang to address an unevaluated promise issue.

Fixes

• Addressed internal vignette index name being used as the title.

Deployment

• Switched from using TravisCI to using GitHub Actions for R. (#25, #27)
• Improved code coverage of unit tests (#29)

searcher 0.0.4 (2019-07-05)

Features

• Added search portal:
  • search_rstudio_community() or search_rscom(): Searches on RStudio Community. (#13, #17)
• Added vignette on search patterns (#18).

Changes

• Renamed search portal:
  • Changed search_ixquick() to search_startpage() due to the merging of ixquick into startpage. (#15)
• Update the README overview for the project. (#16)

Deployment

• Improved TravisCI testing deployments by testing across an array and using all CPUs allotted to build the container. (#16)
• Modify thresholding for code coverage rejections. (#16)

searcher 0.0.3 (2018-07-01)

Features

• Added search portal:
  • search_ixquick(): Searches with ixquick. (#8, #6)

Changes

• Append r programming to major search engines by default (#11, #10)
• Add ixquick as a valid engine to search_site(). (#8, #6)
• Included link to repository and bug tracker to DESCRIPTION.

searcher 0.0.2 (2018-01-16)

Features

• Added search portal functions
  • search_site(): Looks up search portal and then searches with it.
  • search_google(): Searches with Google
  • search_bing(): Searches with Bing
  • search_duckduckgo() or search_ddg(): Searches with DuckDuckGo
  • search_github() or search_gh(): Searches issues on GitHub
  • search_bitbucket() or search_bb(): Searches issues on BitBucket
  • search_stackoverflow() or search_so(): Searches questions on StackOverflow
• Add function generator searcher() to create function objects that can be used as error handlers in option(error = ) and task call-backs.

UX

• Created a browse_url() that checks to see if it is in interactive mode before trying to open a web browser 0.5 seconds after call.