dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:14:00 CDT

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 blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.