NEWS

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polyglotr 1.7.4

• Fixed 301-redirect URL for QCRI in README.md: replaced qcri.org with hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri.
• Removed linguee_external_sources(), linguee_translation_examples(), and linguee_word_translation() — the upstream API (linguee-api.fly.dev) is no longer available.

polyglotr 1.7.3

• Fixed dead URL in README.md: replaced defunct mt.qcri.org/api/ with qcri.org.
• Added weekly lychee link-check CI workflow.

polyglotr 1.7.2

• All functions that use internet resources now fail gracefully with an informative message when the service is unavailable (CRAN policy compliance). Network-level errors (DNS failure, connection refused, timeout) are caught via tryCatch() and reported via message() rather than propagating as errors.
• wikipedia_get_language_names() example wrapped in \donttest{}.

polyglotr 1.7.1 (2026-01-11)

• Changed maintainer email address.

polyglotr 1.7.0 (2025-07-23)

• Adds Shiny app

polyglotr 1.6.1 (2025-07-09)

• Fixes language codes in google_translate() for Traditional and Simple Chinese

polyglotr 1.6.0 (2025-05-14)

polyglotr 1.5.2 (2024-08-23)

• Fixes encoding issue in google_translate()

polyglotr 1.5.1 (2024-07-27)

• Adds specialized function to translate long text objects
• Adds more translation models for wmcloud

polyglotr 1.5.0 (2024-05-03)

• Adds Pons dictionary method
• Adds FunTranslaion methods for morse code

polyglotr 1.4.0 (2024-02-12)

• Adds QCRI methods
• Adds Pons methods
• Adds Wikimedia Foundation methods
• Adds Google Transliteration methods

polyglotr 1.3.1 (2024-01-09)

• fixes testing issue in CRAN checks

polyglotr 1.3.0 (2023-12-06)

• fixes bug concerning special characters in google_translate()
• adds function to retrieve supported languages for Google Translate
• adds function to validate language codes
• adds package dataset for the supported languages in Google Translate

polyglotr 1.2.2 (2023-10-30)

• add batch_translate

polyglotr 1.2.1 (2023-08-08)

polyglotr 1.2.0 (2023-07-17)

• Fixes vectorization issue in google_translate()
• language_detect() function to return input language.
• google_translate_file() function to translate an entire file.
• Added vignettes.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

polyglotr 1.1.0 (2023-06-17)

• Published to CRAN