genius v2.2.3

As illustrated in PR #55, all functionality of genius had been broken due to the changes with genius

This patch release

• brings back full functionality of the package;
• utilizes pivot_wider() instead of spread();
• removes readr as a dependency;
• utilizes session() instead of html_session() from {rvest} since it has been superceded.

genius v2.2.2

May 9th, 2020

• genius was taken off of CRAN due to my failure to address failing examples. Thank you to the CRAN team for providing thorough explanation and forewarning. Thank you @Nicolas-Gallo for bringing this to my attention. This release closes issue #48.
• The removal of genius from CRAN has had downstream consequences. Failure to update has led to the removal of spotifyr from CRAN as well due to the inclusion of genius in its Imports. This release will make it possible to publish spotifyr to CRANA again addressing spotifyr issue #112.
• add_genius()’s type argument took two values "album" and "lyrics". This is logically inconsistent as we are specifying track titles not the lyrics. This is an attempt to create more continuity between the data that is returned from genius_lyrics() and genius_album(). I’ve introduced the argument value "track" which is to be preferred over "lyrics". "lyrics" will remain a valid option to type for reverse compatability.
• Version bumped to 2.2.2.

genius v2.2.1

Dec 16th, 2019

• Created a Code of Conduct
• Changed license from GPL-2 to MIT

Dec 15th, 2019

• add_genius() now unnests lyrics prior to joining. This ought to reduce the number of errors.
• updates to tidyr::unnest() broke functions in many situations. Thank you to @eoppe1022 for pointing out tidyr::unnest_legacy(). The legacy version will be used internally for now.
• Thank you to @chris-billingham for noting issues with the info = "title" and info = "all" arguments of genius_album() and fixing these whilst also adding album_name into the output from genius_album(..., info = "all").
• Belated thank you to @eoppe1022 for help with prep_info() in earlier releases. Evan has been added as a contributor.

Nov 27th, 2019

• Thank you to @mine-cetinkaya-rundel for noting changes to tidyr::unnest() producing unwanted warnings in add_genius(). This has been fixed.

genius v2.2.0

May 5th, 2019

• New package version was submitted to CRAN.
• Interactive tutorial is now available in the package.
  • Run learnr::run_tutorial("genius_tutorial", "genius") to access the tutorial.

May 4th, 2019

• New functionality was added to genius. The function calc_self_sim() enables the user to create a self-similarity matrix. The default output is a tidy data-frame that is ready for plotting. Additional arguments can be used to remove stop words. Stop word functionality is accessed via the tidytext package.
• add_genius() has been modified to be able to accept a column for the type. This will enable you to mix both single songs with entire albums. The type_group column has been renamed to title to be more coherent. This is a potentially breaking change to existing code.
  • Changes to add_genius() were checked for spotifyr reverse dependencies. Results returned 0 errors. All should be good.

genius v2.1.0

April 28th, 2019

• Issue 27 has been fixed. Thank you to @manadamoth for bringing the issue to attention. genius_album() would fail when it encountered a url with missing lyrics. The solution was to create a safe version of the genius_url() function that is called from genius_album() instead of genius_url() directly. This means that the function will continue to work if a single track url doesn’t. Those tracks will have any empty tibble (so after unnesting within genius_album() it returns a row of NAs).
  • I am still trying to figure out how to customize the warning message from purrr::possibly(), if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know via issue or twitter (@josiahparry).

genius v2.0.0

April 10th, 2019

The name of this package has been changed from geniusR to genius due to a name conflict on CRAN.

This update makes some drastic changes to the base genius_url() function. It closes two long lasting pull requests #4, and #12.

Big thanks to @natebarr64 for his pull request #20 that fixed issue #4. This PR also created a new feature.

@natebarr64 create the argument info = "features" which will identify the song element and artist for that element if they are available. You can use this for genius_url(), genius_lyrics(), and genius_album().