NEWS

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covfefe 1.0.0 (2026-01-26)

Major Release - Political Linguistics Toolkit

New Features

• Political Linguistics Museum (museum.R)

  • museum_list(), museum_lookup(), museum_random()
  • museum_by_person(), museum_by_year(), museum_by_type()
  • 13 curated digital gaffes from 1992-2025

• Keyboard Geometry Engine (keyboard.R)

  • qwerty_distance(), qwerty_adjacent(), is_keyboard_adjacent()
  • adjacent_key_typo(), keyboard_mash()
  • Full QWERTY layout with adjacency data

• Phonetic Engine (phonetic.R)

  • soundex(), phonetic_distance()
  • phonetic_shift(), vowel_shift()
  • get_phonetic_group()

• Syllable Engine (syllable.R)

  • syllabify(), syllable_count()
  • onset_nucleus_coda(), syllable_swap()

• Word Blending Engine (blend.R)

  • blend_words(), detect_blend(), blend_score()

• Text Corruption Simulator (corrupt.R)

  • corrupt_text() with modes: keyboard, phonetic, double, truncate, swap, omit
  • garble_sentence()

• Detection & Analysis (detect.R)

  • detect_typo_type(), suggest_corrections()
  • analyze_gaffe()

Infrastructure

• Precomputed data: gaffes.rda, qwerty_layout.rda, qwerty_adjacency.rda, phonetic rules
• Full test coverage with testthat 3e
• Modular file structure

covfefe 0.2.0

• Fixed covfefySpeech() to write output to tempdir() instead of working directory, resolving CRAN NOTE about non-standard files in check directory.
• Updated DESCRIPTION to use Authors@R format.
• Replaced deprecated Travis CI with GitHub Actions multi-platform CI.
• Added comprehensive tests for covfefySentence() and covfefySpeech().
• Updated to roxygen2 7.3.3 with selective imports (@importFrom).
• Added Encoding: UTF-8 to DESCRIPTION.

covfefe 0.1.0 (2017-06-06)

• Initial CRAN release.
• Added covfefy() to transform individual words.
• Added covfefySentence() to transform sentences.
• Added covfefySpeech() to transform full speeches/texts.