NEWS

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gson 0.2.0 (2026-07-01)

• expand regression tests for empty memberships, duplicate mappings, missing metadata, multi-species metadata, and invalid container access (2026-06-30, Tue)
• add schema_version to the GSON object and JSON representation to support future file schema evolution (2026-06-30, Tue)
• add container helpers for GSON objects, including as.data.frame(), length(), names(), [[, and write.gmt() (2026-06-30, Tue)
• add validate_gson() to check the core GSON data contract and optional mapping table consistency (2026-06-30, Tue)
• add README documentation describing GSON as a gene set collection container with creation, GSON IO, GMT, and enrichment examples (2026-06-30, Tue)
• fix read.gson()/write.gson() round-tripping of missing optional fields and preserve gsid2gene character columns (2026-06-30, Tue)
• normalize the first two columns of GSON mapping tables in gson() and add input validation (2026-06-30, Tue)
• make gsonList() robust to GSON objects without gsname and add testthat regression tests (2026-06-30, Tue)
• introduce new slot 'urlpattern' for generating URL of selected gene set (2023-08-16, Wed)
• use yulab.utils::yread() to read GMT file and gson file (2023-08-16, Wed)

gson 0.1.0 (2023-03-07)

• fixed read.gson() by setting the default values (if empty) to NULL (to make it compatible with 'clusterProfiler') (2023-03-03, Mon)
• set gsname="WikiPathways" in read.gmt.wp(output = "gson") (2022-09-23, Fri)

gson 0.0.9 (2022-09-06)

• gsonList function to construct GSONList object and corresponding print method implemented (2022-09-06, Tue)

gson 0.0.8 (2022-08-20)

• remove iconv in write.gson as it may return NA (2022-08-20, Sat)

gson 0.0.7 (2022-08-09)

• add keytype slot for read.gson() and write.gson(). (2022-08-5, Wed)
• add keytype slot for GSON object. (2022-07-13, Wed)