Dirk Eddelbuettel: dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance

A new release of my mixed collection of things package dang package arrived
at CRAN earlier today. The dang package regroups
a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example
lsos() from a
StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!), the overbought/oversold
price band plotter from an older blog post, the market monitor
blogged about as well as the checkCRANStatus() function
tweeted about by Tim
Taylor. And more so take a look.

This release retires two functions: the social media site nobody ever
visits anymore shut down its API too, so no way to mute posts by a given
handle. Similarly, the (never official) ability by Google to supply
financial data is no more, so the function to access data this way is
gone too. But we also have two new ones: one that helps with CRAN entries for ORCiD ids, and
another little helper to re-order microbenchmark results by
summary column (defaulting to the median). Other than the usual updates
to continuous integrations, as well as a switch to Authors@R which will
result in CRAN nagging me less
about this, and another argument update.

The detailed NEWS entry follows.

Changes in version 0.0.17
(2025-12-18)

• Added new funtion reorderMicrobenchmarkResults with
  alias rmr

• Use tolower on email argument to
  checkCRANStatus

• Added new function cranORCIDs bootstrapped from two
  emails by Kurt Hornik

• Switched to using Authors@R in DESCRIPTION and added ORCIDs where
  available

• Switched to r-ci action with included bootstrap
  step; updated updated the checkout action (twice); added (commented-out)
  log accessor

• Removed googleFinanceData as the (unofficial) API
  access point no longer works

• Removed muteTweeters because the API was turned
  off

Via my CRANberries, there
is a comparison to the
previous release. For questions or comments use the the issue tracker at
the GitHub repo.

This post by Dirk
Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
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