textutils – Utilities for Handling Strings and Text

0.1-0

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0100

First release. The main purpose of the package is to provide generic functions: toHTML and toText.

0.1-1

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200

new function 'TeXunits'

0.1-10

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0100

'toHTML.data.frame' gains a new argument 'eol'

0.1-11

Wed, 1 May 2019 00:00:00 +0200

fix 'HTMLencode' (thanks to Jacqueline Nolis for reporting the error); the function also gains a new argument 'use.iconv'
new function 'here'

0.1-2

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200

TeXunits: both 'from' and 'to' can be vectors of length > 1

0.1-3

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0100

new function 'HTMLdecode'

0.1-4

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0100

new function 'spaces'

0.1-5

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

functions 'char2num' and 'expstr' are removed (for the latter, use 'strexp' instead)

0.1-6

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

CRAN release

0.1-7

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0200

small update in vignette

0.1-8

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0200

new method 'toHTML.data.frame'

0.1-9

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200

new function 'fill_in'
new function 'title_case'
new function 'TeXencode'

0.2-0

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0100

fix 'here': argument 'trim' was ignored for character vectors
function 'HTMLdecode' now also decodes decimal and hexadecimal character references, controlled by new arguments 'named', 'hex' and 'decimal'
function 'HTMLencode' gains an argument 'encode.only', to restrict characters to be encoded

0.2-1

Thu, 1 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200

fix handling of "¬" in 'HTMLdecode' (thanks to Fangzhou Xie for reporting the error)
toHTML.data.frame: fix handling of single-row dataframes
toHTML.data.frame: new argument 'col.names', with default TRUE. If FALSE, column names of data frame are ignored. Also, 'row.names' may now be either logical (as before) or a string, which is then used as column name.
'toText' gains a method for data frames

0.2-2

Sat, 3 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

"legacy" named character references without a trailing semicolon, such as ¬ or <, are now properly handled, for instance HTMLdecode("¶llel is good") ## "¶llel is good" HTMLdecode("∥ is good") All references listed at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html#named-character-references are supported.

0.3-0

Tue, 6 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

new function "insert", for inserting elements into a vector

0.3-1

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

"HTMLencode" now translates non-breaking spaces into " ". Before, it used " ", which is valid but (apparently) less supported.

0.3-2

Sat, 1 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200

minor documentation updates
there is an additionat git repository at https://git.sr.ht/~enricoschumann/textutils

0.4-1

Mon, 1 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200

new function "HTMLrm", which removes HTML tags
"toHTML" gains an argument "td.id"; if TRUE, "td"-elements get id attributes
the data-frame method of "toHTML" gains an argument "replace.NA", for automatically replacing NAs

0.4-2

Tue, 1 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

add a character method for "toText", which for named vectors pastes names and values, e.g. toText(c(NAME = "Lisa")) becomes NAME:Lisa
"HTMLrm" gains an argument "tag.replace", which is used when replacing tags like '' and ''; default is "", which matches the current behaviour
"toHTML" for data.frames: "col.names" may be a character vector, just like for "row.names"

0.4-3

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100

fix URL in vignette