update news and cran comments, contirbuting file tweak

Author: sckott

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -23,8 +23,4 @@ Check out our [discussion forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org) if you think your
 
 ### Prefer to Email? 
 
-Email the person listed as maintainer in the `DESCRIPTION` file of this repo.
-
-Though note that private discussions over email don't help others - of course email is totally warranted if it's a sensitive problem of any kind.
-
-### Thanks for contributing!
+Private discussions over email don't help others - of course email is totally warranted if it's a sensitive problem of any kind.

NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+microdemic 0.5.0
+================
+
+### NEW FEATURES
+
+* new author Christopher Baker (#13)
+* docs website at https://docs.ropensci.org/microdemic
+
+### MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
+
+* all functions now pass along detailed error messages; before we were erroring but just giving the http status code and generic message; as part of this fix now importing httpcode pkg (#7) (#12) (#14)
+* use fake API key on travis to avoid test suite error (#11)
+* internals of `ma_search()` have changed a bit; get in touch if you have any questions about this function
+
+### BUG FIXES
+
+* fix to internal function `invabs2abs()` within `ma_abstract()`: the inverted index returned from Microsoft can have missing values and we were incorrectly inserting NA's into those spots resulting in NA's in abstracts (#8) (#9)
+
 microdemic 0.4.0
 ================
 

cran-comments.md

@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
 ## Test environments
 
-* local OS X install, R 3.5.1 Patched
-* ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.5.1
+* local OS X install, R 3.6.2 Patched
+* ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.6.2
 * win-builder (devel and release)
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
-0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
-
-License components with restrictions and base license permitting such:
-  MIT + file LICENSE
-File 'LICENSE':
-  YEAR: 2018
-  COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Scott Chamberlain
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 0 notes
 
 ## Reverse dependencies
 
@@ -21,7 +15,7 @@ found. Summary at <https://github.com/ropensci/microdemic/tree/master/revdep>
 
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-This version improves output of one function to ease use, and adds vcr for HTTP request caching in the test suite.
+This version fixes a bug, has better error messages, adds a new author.
 
 Thanks!
 Scott Chamberlain