NEWS

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rdracor 1.1.0

• all functions that request 'DraCor' API now fail gracefully: if the API is not available (no internet connection, the server is down or does not respond, error status, data that cannot be parsed), they show an informative message and return NULL instead of throwing an error
• added time limits for requests to 'DraCor' API: options rdracor.connect_timeout (30 s) and rdracor.timeout (600 s), see ?dracor_api
• added dracor_api_available() to check whether 'DraCor' API is available
• fixed dracor_api_info() failing if 'DraCor' API is not available
• get_dracor() requests the list of corpora once instead of twice
• examples are run only if 'DraCor' API is available
• tests that need 'DraCor' API are not run on CRAN; added tests for the behaviour of the functions without 'DraCor' API
• fixed tei_to_df() and get_text_df() losing the speaker (who) of verse lines wrapped in <lg>; lines with several speakers keep all their ids; tei_to_df() no longer modifies the document passed to it
• fixed plot() for cooccur_igraph and relations_igraph objects ignoring igraph arguments passed by the user (e.g. vertex.color, vertex.size); gender_colors can be given in any order; edge_size_scale = NULL works
• fixed plot() for relations_igraph objects not drawing vertices: colours were taken from the character attribute gender, which 'DraCor' API v1.1.0 renamed to sex (dracor-org/dracor-api#319)
• get_play_metadata(full_metadata = TRUE) uses only the metadata columns returned by the API and no longer returns normalizedGenre twice
• set_dracor_api_url() validates its argument and removes a trailing slash
• dracor_sparql() uses the host of the current 'DraCor' API URL
• argument validation errors (e.g. a missing play name) are no longer reported as connection problems
• TLS certificates are verified for all requests
• fixed citation("rdracor"): full list of authors of the 'DraCor' paper and DOI; added a citation for the package
• fixed typos in documentation; documented the format of gender_colors
• fixed plot() for cooccur_igraph objects failing or warning when a metric is 0 for every character (e.g. betweenness in a two-character play) or the play has no co-occurrences; unknown relation types are drawn in grey
• several authors of a play are separated with "; " in the attributes of network objects
• get_dracor() downloads each corpus once even if its name is repeated and no longer returns the duplicated column yearNormalizedMeta
• the updated column of get_dracor_meta() takes the UTC offset of 'DraCor' API timestamps into account
• invalid play or corpus arguments give a clear error message
• requests to 'DraCor' API identify the package with a User-Agent header

rdracor 1.0.6 (2025-09-29)

• updated requests for all "gender" to "sex" properties with respect to recent 'DraCor' API changes

rdracor 1.0.5 (2025-08-27)

• fixed bug with creating igraph objects with get_net_*_igraph() functions caused by 'DraCor' API changes

rdracor 1.0.4 (2024-09-26)

• updated deprecated functions imported from {igraph}
• Added progress bar to get_dracor()
• updated tests
• fixed bug with getting corpora with plays without authors (e.g., AmDraCor) using get_dracor()

rdracor 1.0.3 (2024-04-03)

• updated the packaged to changes in 'Dracor' API
• updated tests
• removed cyrillic letters from example plots

rdracor 0.7.7

• fixed get_play_metadata() not working with full_metadata = TRUE if 'DraCor' API URL was modified with set_dracor_api_url()

rdracor 0.7.6 (2023-10-22)

• Updated tests

rdracor 0.7.5

• Fixed URL from ReadMe

rdracor 0.7.4

• Fixed URL from ReadMe
• Added option to return simple igraph object for get_net_*_igraph() functions
• Added option to change 'DraCor' API URL

rdracor 0.7.3

• Fixed error with outdated certificate

rdracor 0.7.2 (2023-01-23)

• Fixed DESCRIPTION file
• Fixed spelling
• Updated plot.dracor_meta() function (fixed changing par() options)
• Added missing Rd-tags from documentation
• Updated Readme
• Updated parameters for get_text_chr_*() functions

rdracor 0.7.1

• Changed hyphens to en-dash in summary.dracor()
• Updated Readme
• Fixed invalid URLs
• Deleted extra files
• Added donttest for examples with >5s
• Updated the package Title to title case

rdracor 0.7.0

• Initial version of the package