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beepr 2.0 (2024-07-06)

'beep_on_error' rethrows the error after beeping. This is a breaking change from 1.3.
Fixed a bug that resulted in R crashing when calling 'beep()' multiple times in a short time frame. (#26)
Removed the dependency on 'stringr'. (#42)
Allowed 'beep(-1)' or 'beep("none")' to result in no sound being played. (#29)
Fixed a bug where the download sound-option did not work on Windows. (#41)
Changed the Linux sound player priority order to aplay -> paplay -> vlc. (#39)

Fixed a bug that made it impossible to play files with spaces on Linux.
Added a new function beep_on_error that only beeps if an expression results in an error. (Courtesy of @dobbleobble).

Removed the previously deprecated 'ping' function.
Fixed incompatibility with 'stringr' 1.0.0
Added support for playing urls like beep("http://www.kessels.com/catsounds/cat1.wav"). Currently "beep" can only handle http urls, https is not supported.
Added "sword" sound inspired by the presentation by Yihui Xie at UseR! 2014 (https://github.com/yihui/knitr-talks/tree/master/useR2014)

beep() throws a warning instead of an error if no working audio interface is found. The rationale for this is that it would be worse if a long analysis was aborted due to the notification system failing rather than to not throw a proper error.
Changed the name of the package from 'pingr' to 'beepr'.
Renamed 'ping()' to 'beep()'.

Added the possibility to use 'paplay' to play audio on Linux.
Changed the priority for which audio program is used first on Linux. 'paplay' and 'aplay' is now tried first and VLC is used as the last resort.
It is now possible to play any wav-file using 'ping("my_wav_fil.wav")'