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SemNetCleaner 1.3.6

UPDATE: added parallel processing for large spell checks
ADD: 'textcleaner' functionality for free association response tasks (*hunspell* is used to expedite processing)
FIX: 'singularize' handling of words ending in "es"
REMOVE: dependency *miniUI* and *editData*

FIX: 'edit' error on Macs, switched to 'editData', and added *editData* dependency

UPDATE: 'textcleaner' now allows for either UK or US English spelling
FIX: 'correct.changes' did not like vectors (see GitHub Issue #4)
FIX: bug for BAD STRING option in 'textcleaner' fixed (see GitHub Issue #5)
UPDATE: new output and message for dictionary and monikers in 'textcleaner'
FIX: bug for moniker check when 'dictionary = "general"' in 'textcleaner' (see GitHub Issue #7)
UPDATE: internal adjustment for parsing multiple words with the general dictionary (speeds up process)
ADD: preprocessing data from SemNA tutorial ('open.preprocess')

ADD: function to convert cleaned data to the SNAFU library's format in Python: 'convert2snafu'
UPDATE: 'correct.changes' included within 'textcleaner' to streamline code for single function preprocessing
UPDATE: 'edit' function added within the 'correct.changes' function to allow more seamless interface
UPDATE: change tracking has been added to 'correct.changes' in the output ('$spellcheck$changes')
UPDATE: ‘textcleaner'’s help is now more helpful
UPDATE: text styling (face and color) are now adaptive to OS, software (R and RStudio), and RStudio theme

**MAJOR UPDATE**: overhauled 'textcleaner' and 'correct.changes' system to be more functionally efficient, convenient, and aesthetically intuitive
ADD: a walkthrough has been added prior to the manual spell-check in 'textcleaner'
ADD: a help option has been added to 'textcleaner'
UPDATE: error catching added to 'textcleaner' and 'correct.changes' so not all is lost (data up to error will be saved and returned)
MOVE: 'equate' and 'finalize' moved from SemNetCleaner to SemNeT
UPDATE: moved many miscellaneous functions to internals to clean up package presentation
UPDATE: cleaned up textcleaner code to be more streamlined and readable
REMOVE: lead.word data was removed because the 'rm.lead.space' function was moved to internals

diacritic characters bug fux in 'qwerty.dist'
temporary bug fix in 'correct.changes' (see code)
removed progress bar for Macs and Linux -- will work on progress bar solution at a later time
fixed diacritic character error for Macs

updates to documentation
fixed obnoxious message bug in 'textcleaner' function
changed progress bar in 'spell.check.dictionary' to display words done out of words in total (rather than percentage)
updated citation (PsyArXiv)
added vignettes for preprocessing and estimating semantic networks

'equate' now handles any number of groups ('equate.multi' is defunct and merged into 'equate')
added a group variable for the dataset 'open.animals'
removed option to save appendix dictionary to package (not allowed by CRAN policies)
added a general function to read in common types of data file extensions: 'read.data'
updated 'textcleaner' to bypass double query for adding a dictionary
bug fixes in 'textcleaner' and 'spell.check.dictionary'
updated 'singularize' and 'pluralize' rule sets
removed 'autoConverge' and 'autoDestr' functions
changed 'corr.chn' to 'correct.changes'

cleaned up examples and removed unnecessary datasets ('convmat', 'rmat', and 'trial')
updated 'spell.check.dictionary' to automate continuous string selection when continuous response length is greater than maximum continuous string length in dictionary
changed output to have quotes around words being asked to add into dictionary to decipher whether they are a string or separate words
updated ‘splitstr.check' so responses are not repeated after they’ve been corrected. Also no longer asks to split responses that are in the dictionary (splits them automatically)
updated 'word.check.wrapper' so that 10 responses are always given if the original response is not auto-corrected
added additional nested list called 'auto' to spellcheck object in 'textcleaner' and 'corr.chn' functions, which includes only the incorrect responses changed during the spell-check
fixed save dictionary bug in 'spell.check.dictionary'
added a response option called, 'CONTEXT' to the ‘word.check.wrapper' function to give greater context around a participant’s response
added third auto-correct function using 'hunspell_suggest' function to the 'word.check.wrapper' function
updated functionality of code -- improved speed of several lines in 'textcleaner' and 'spell.check.dictionary'
fixed multi-word bug in 'spell.check.dictionary'

fixed bug in 'rm.lead.space' for Linux
updated 'textcleaner' to default to 'general.dictionary' when no dictionary is specified
updated citation
algorithm for 'best.guess' was changed to Damerau-Levenshtein distance
'corr.chn' function code was cleaned up and streamlined
'animals.database' has been moved to the 'SemNetDictionaries' package. It was renamed as 'animals.dictionary'
'animals.misnomer' was removed
‘textcleaner' function code was cleaned up and streamlined. Integrated functionality with the ’SemNetDicationaries' package
'autoConverge' function code was cleaned up and streamlined

animals.database: a database for animals was added
animals.misnomer: common misnomers for animals was added
textcleaner: added database functionality, which makes the cleaning process more accurate, efficient, and reproducible
several wrapper functions added to aid textcleaning from a database

autoConverge: significantly improved interface
separated all function files into individual files
semnetcleaner (changed to textcleaner): added argument to input participants by row or column; ids now included for output; added output to show what spellcheck changed
destr: improved functionality to allow selection of separating character
randwalk: added a function to simulate random walks on the network to examine spontaenous spreading activation
bin2resp: a function to change cleaned binary response data back into character data for each participant

cosine: added cosine similarity
semnetboot: changed name to partboot and added the cosine similarity
semnetmeas: moved from NetworkToolbox
plot.partboot: a function that generates "raindrop" plots for bootstrapped data
org.plot: an organization function for plot.partboot (not for individual use)
convert2cytoscape: added a function to convert a network matrix into a sparse matrix for Cytoscape visualization
added new examples with corresponding data files

autoConverge: created an automated converge function to eliminate the manual converge process
autoDeStr: created an automated de-string function to eliminate most manual de-stringing
fine-tuned most functions
semnetboot: moved from package NetworkToolbox