devtools - devtools 2.4.5

• check(cleanup =) was deprecated in devtools v1.11.0 (2016-04-12) and was made defunct in v2.4.4 (2022-07-20). The documentation is more clear now about recommended alternatives.

• check(check_dir = NULL) is the new default, to align with the default behaviour of the underlying rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck().

• check(cran = TRUE) sets the env var _R_CHECK_PACKAGES_USED_IGNORE_UNUSED_IMPORTS_ to FALSE, in order to surface the "Namespace in Imports field not imported from" NOTE. This only applies to R >= 4.2, due to favorable changes in the behaviour of R CMD check --as-cran (#2459).

• test_active_file() passes the package onto to testthat so it can correctly set the TESTTHAT_PKG envvar (#2470).

• test() and test_active_file() once again work with testthat itself.

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devtools - devtools 2.4.4

• install(reload = TRUE) now calls pkgload::unregister() instead of pkload::unload() (#2349). This allows the package to keep functioning if it is still in use in the R session (e.g. through event handlers).

• test() no longer calls load_all() twice. test_active_file() now calls load_all() via testthat.

• aspell_env_var() does a better job of matching R CMD check behaviour, which is only to use aspell, not hunspell or ispell (#2376).

• Installing devtools now installs pkgdown, profvis, bench, miniUI, and urlchecker, ensuring that you have everything needed for package development (#2388).

• dev_sitrep() has been updated for the calendar-based version number scheme adopted by the RStudio IDE in September 2021 (#2397, #2410).

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devtools - devtools 2.4.3

• New check_mac_release() function to check a package using the macOS builder at https://mac.r-project.org/macbuilder/submit.html (#2375)

• Jenny Bryan is now the official maintainer.

• release() and submit_cran() now record submission details using the Debian Control File format, for better machine-readability. This file has a new name, CRAN-SUBMISSION (instead of CRAN-RELEASE) and now includes package version, in addition to the full SHA and a timestamp.

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devtools - devtools 2.4.2

• check_man() now works with R versions 4.1+ (#2354)

• test_active_file() now again works on windows projects stored under the user's home directory (~) (#2355)

• document(quiet = TRUE) now works without failure on windows (#2351)

• Minor test failure on R 4.2 has been fixed.

• New Rstudio addin for run_examples() (#2358)

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devtools - devtools 2.4.1

• build_readme() now uses the path argument, as designed (#2344)

• create() no longer opens projects by default to avoid duplicate projects opened by the RStudio IDE project template (#2347, @malcolmbarrett)

• The RStudio addins now use test_active_file() and test_coverage_active_file() instead of the deprecated test_file() and test_coverage_file() (#2339)

• RStudio addins now run in interactive mode, rather than background mode (@jennybc, #2350)

• install(upgrade) now defaults to 'default' rather than 'ask'. This allows you to control the default asking behavior with the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE environment variable (#2345)

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devtools - devtools 2.4.0

Breaking changes and deprecated functions

• The check_results() function has been removed. It was not used by any CRAN package, and much better alternatives are available in the rcmdcheck package.

• pkgload::inst() is no longer re-exported (#2218).

• test_file() has been renamed to test_active_file() and test_coverage_file() has been renamed to test_coverage_active_file() to avoid a name collision with testthat::test_file(). The previous names have been soft deprecated in this release, they will be hard deprecated in the next release and eventually removed. (#2125)

Re-licensing

• devtools is now released under a MIT license (#2326)

Minor improvements and fixes

• build_readme() now supports readme files located in inst/README.Rmd, as intended (#2333)

• build_vignettes() now creates more specific .gitignore entries (@klmr, #2317)

• check() now only re-documents if you have a matching version of roxygen2 (#2263).

• change_maintainer_email() now has a check to assess whether the email is actually changed. If the email is not changed, the code now stops such that an email is not accidentally sent to the wrong recipient. (@emilsjoerup, #2073)

• run_examples(fresh = TRUE) again works without error (#2264)

• The covr and DT packages have been moved from Imports to Suggests. They are only needed when running test_coverage() and test_coverage_active_file() so now you'll be prompted to install them when needed.

• Switched to fs for all file system functions (#2331, @malcolmbarrett)

• Now uses testthat 3.0.0 to power test(), test_active_file(), test_coverage(), and test_coverage_active_file(). The major difference is that test_active_file() now generates a compact summary that takes up less space on the console.

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devtools - devtools 2.3.2

• Fix for compatibility with withr 2.3.0

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devtools - devtools 2.3.1

• run_examples() arguments run and test are deprecated in favor of the (hopefully) more clear run_dontrun and run_donttest (pkgload/#107).

• Previously deprecated functions dr_devtools() and dr_github() have been removed.

• Documentation has been synced with remotes 2.2.0

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devtools - devtools 2.3.0

• build() now errors with a more informative error message when passed an invalid pkg. (#2177)

• New build_rmd() can build any .Rmd file in a clean session.

• dev_sitrep() now works correctly when R is out of date (#2204)

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devtools - devtools 2.2.2

• install_dev_deps() now passes formal args onto remotes::install_deps() (@t-gibson, #2166)

• spell_check() now checks if spelling is installed and prompts users to
  install it if not (@mikemahoney218, #2172)

• submit_cran() now returns a more informative error when the CRAN submission portal is down (#1958)

• check() gains a vignettes argument, to more easily disable checks for vignettes (#2165).

• check_win_*() function now resets the email to the original email after execution (@muschellij2, #2152).

• check() now sets NOT_CRAN=true by default, as was originally intended (#2135).

• install_deps() now supports options("devtools.ellipsis_action") as well (#2169)

• test() now takes stop_on_failure as a formal argument (FALSE by default) instead of in .... Its value is still passed to testthat::test_dir as before (@infotroph, #2129).

• test() and test_coverage_file() gain a export_all argument, which controls if all functions in a package are automatically exported (#1201).

• dev_sitrep() now works if run outside a package directory (#2127).

• release() now works if the package root is not in the working directory.

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devtools - devtools 2.2.1

• test() now sets the collation order to C before running, which matches the behavior of tests when run with R CMD check (#2121)

• New options("devtools.ellipsis_action") option added to control the action of ellipsis in devtools. This should be one of

  • rlang::abort - to emit an error if arguments are unused
  • rlang::warn - to emit a warning if arguments are unused
  • rlang::inform - to emit a message if arguments are unused
  • rlang::signal - to emit a message if arguments are unused Using rlang::signal will produce no output unless the custom condition is caught, so it is the best way to retain backwards compatibility with devtools behavior prior to 2.2.0. The default behavior was also changed to issue a warning rather than an error if any arguments are unused, as there are some cases where devtools does not need to install the package, so unused arguments are false positives (#2109).

• install() now throws an error when it fails, as intended (#2120)

• install() now again reloads and re-attaches packages if they were previously loaded (#2111).

• release() no longer calls the deprecated dr_devtools() (#2105)

• test() now explicitly passes stop_on_failure = FALSE to testthat::test_dir() (@jameslamb, #2099)

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devtools - devtools 2.2.0

New Features

• create() added back, the RStudio IDE uses create() in the create packages dialog, so removing it in version 2.1.0 broke old versions of the IDE.

• New dev_sitrep() function to return information about your development environment and diagnose common problems. The former functions dr_devtools() and dr_github() have been deprecated. (#1970)

• All functions taking ... now use the ellipsis package. This catches errors when arguments are misspelled or incorrectly specified (#2016)

Minor improvements and fixes

• build_vignettes() now correctly installs the vignette builder if it is not already installed (#2089).

• dev_sitrep() now uses the same endpoint to detect the current RStudio version as the IDE (#2050).

• document() gains a quiet parameter, to silence output and check() now passes its quiet argument to it (#1986).

• Add the DT package as a dependency, so that test_coverage() and test_coverage_file() work without having to install additional packages (#2085).

• check_man() now succeeds when tools::undoc() returns empty results (#1944).

• check_win_*() functions gain a email argument, so temporarily change the email the check results will be sent to (#1723).

• install() now explicitly unloads packages before trying to install a new version (#2094).

• All install_*() functions now attach build tools to the PATH, which makes them work on Windows when RTools is not on the default PATH (#2093).

• test_coverage_file() now works when there is not a 1 to 1 correspondence between test and source files (#2011).

• release() now works again when pkg is not the current working directory (#1974).

• release() now works without error when options("repos") is unnamed (#1956).

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devtools - devtools v2.1.0

New Features

• testthat and roxygen2 are now added to Imports rather than Suggests, so they are automatically installed when you install devtools.

Deprecated functions now removed

• create(), create_description(), setup() use_appveyor(), use_build_ignore(), use_code_of_conduct(), use_coverage(), use_cran_badge(), use_cran_comments(), use_data(), use_data_raw(), use_dev_version(), use_git(), use_git_hook(), use_github(), use_github_links(), use_gpl3_license(), use_mit_license(), use_news_md(), use_package(), use_package_doc(), use_rcpp(), use_readme_md(), use_readme_rmd(), use_revdep(), use_rstudio(), use_test(), use_testthat(), use_travis(), use_vignette(), have been removed after being deprecated in previous releases. Use the versions in the usethis package directly.

• check_cran(), revdep_check(), revdep_check_print_problems(), revdep_check_reset(), revdep_check_resume(), revdep_check_save_summary(), revdep_email() have been removed after being deprecated in prevous releases. It is recommended to use the revdepcheck package instead.

• system_check(), system_output() have been removed after being deprecated in previous releases. It is recommend to use the processx package instead.

• build_win() has been removed, after being deprecated in previous releases.

• yesno() as used in release() now has clearer synonyms for "yes" (@mattmalin, #1993)

Minor improvements and fixes

• check_rhub gains a new argument build_args for arguments passed to R CMD build. ... is now passed to rhub::check_for_cran() (@gaborcsardi, @maelle, #2041)

• build_manual() now fails if the manual fails to build. (#2056)

• test_file() and test_coverage_file() now work with C and C++ files in the src/ directory as well.

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Published by jimhester over 6 years ago

devtools - devtools v1.13.6

• Compatibility for git2r versions 0.22.0+
• Fix test errors related to GitHub SSLv1 changes with git2r versions =< 0.21.0.

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devtools - devtools v2.0.0

Devtools 2.0.0 is a major release that contains work from the past year and a half, since the major devtools release (1.13.0).

This release splits the functionality in devtools into a number of smaller packages which are simpler to develop and also easier for other packages to depend on. In particular the following packages have been spun off in what we are calling the 'conscious uncoupling' of devtools.

• remotes: Installing packages (i.e. install_github()).
• pkgbuild: Building binary packages (including checking if build tools are available) (i.e. build()).
• pkgload: Simulating package loading (i.e. load_all()).
• rcmdcheck: Running R CMD check and reporting the results (i.e. check()).
• revdepcheck: Running R CMD check on all reverse dependencies, and figuring out what's changed since the last CRAN release (i.e. revdep_check()).
• sessioninfo: R session info (i.e. session_info()).
• usethis: Automating package setup (i.e. use_test()).

devtools will remain the main package developers will interact with when writing R packages; it will just rely on these other packages internally for most of the functionality.

Breaking changes

There have been a number of breaking changes in this release, while this will cause some short term pain for users it will result in a easier to understand API in the future, so we feel the tradeoff is worthwhile.

• devtools::install() arguments have been changed as follows.

  • local -> build
  • force_deps -> force
  • upgrade_dependencies -> upgrade
  • threads -> Removed, but you can use Ncpus, which is passed by ... to install.packages()
  • metadata -> Removed
  • out_dir -> Removed
  • skip_if_log_exists -> Removed

• check() argument check_version has been renamed to remote to better describe what tests are disabled (#1811)

• get_path(), set_path(), add_path() and on_path() have been removed, this functionality is available with withr::with_path() (#1796).

• The lang argument to spell_check() was removed, for compatibility with spelling v1.1. (#1715)

• The previously deprecated with_ functions have now been removed. The functionality has been moved to the withr package.

• RCMD(), clean_source(), eval_clean() and evalq_clean() have been removed. These functions never worked terribly well, and have been replaced by the much better functions in callr.

• build_win() has been renamed to check_win_release(), check_win_devel(), and check_win_oldrelease() (#1598).

Deprecated functions

• Infrastructure functions (use_*) now use the implementations in usethis and the versions in devtools are deprecated. If you use these from a package you should switch your package to depend on usethis directly instead.

• The revdep_check_* functions have been deprecated in favor of the revdepcheck package.

• system_check() and system_output() have been deprecated in factor of the processx package.

Major changes

• All install_*() functions are now re-exported from remotes rather than being defined in devtools

• devtools now depends on roxygen2 6.1.0: this considerably simplifies devtools::document() and makes it more consistent with roxygen2::roxygenise().

• test_file() function added to test one or more files from a package (#1755).

• test_coverage() function added to provide a helper to compute test coverage using covr (#1628).

• test_file() and test_coverage_file() now have RStudio addins (#1650)

• test_file_coverage() function added to show the test coverage of one or more files from a package. (#1755).

• session_info() now uses the implementation in the sessioninfo package. Packages using devtools::session_info() are encouraged to switch to using sessioninfo::session_info() instead.

• package_info() function now re-exported from the sessioninfo package.

• check() now uses rcmdcheck to run and parse R CMD check output (#1153).

• Code related to simulating package loading has been pulled out into a separate package, pkgload. The following functions have been moved to pkgload without a shim: clean_dll(), compile_dll(), dev_example(), dev_help(), dev_meta(), find_topic(), imports_env(), inst(), load_code(), load_dll(), ns_env(), parse_ns_file(), pkg_env(). These functions are primarily for internal use.

  load_all() and unload() have been moved to pkgload, but devtools provides shims since these are commonly used.

• find_rtools(), setup_rtools(), has_devel(), compiler_flags(), build() and with_debug() have moved to the new pkgbuild package. build() and with_debug() are re-exported by devtools

• The spell_check() code has been moved into the new spelling package and has thereby gained support for vignettes and package wordlists. The devtools function now wraps spelling::spell_check_package().

Minor improvements and fixes

• check_win_*() now build the package with manual = TRUE by default (#1890).

• check() output now works more nicely with recent changes to rcmdcheck (#1874).

• reload() now reloads loaded but not attached packages as well as attached ones.

• Executed styler::style_pkg() to update code style (#1851, @amundsenjunior).

• save_all() helper function wraps rstudioapi::documentSaveAll() calls (#1850, @amundsenjunior).

• check() now allows users to run without --timings (#1655)

• update_packages() better documented to advertise it can be used to update packages installed by any of the install_* functions.

• check() gains a incoming option to toggle the CRAN incoming checks.

• build_vignette() gains a keep_md option to allow keeping the intermediate markdown output (#1726)

• remote_sha.github() now correctly looks up SHA in private repositories (#1827, @renozao).

• devtools use_*() functions now temporarily set the active usethis project if given a pkg argument that is not the current directory. This provides backwards compatibility with previous behavior (#1823).

• Vignettes are now built in a separate process, and the package is installed before building the vignettes (#1822)

• build_readme() added to build the README.md from a README.Rmd (#1762)

• build_vignettes() now has a clean and upgrade arguments, to control cleaning of intermediate files and upgrading vignette dependencies respectively. (#1770).

• release() gains an additional question ensuring you updated codemeta.json if one exists (#1774, #1754)

• test() now sets useFancyQuotes = FALSE to better mimic the environment tests are run under with R CMD check (#1735).

• test() no longer passes encoding argument to testthat::test_dir() (#1776)

• install_url() can now install package binaries on windows (#1765)

• Fix skipping when installing from a full SHA (#1624)

• add pkgdown::build_site() wrapper (@kiwiroy, #1777)

• add pkgdown site (https://devtools.r-lib.org) (#1779, @jayhesselberth)

• install_version() can now install current version of CRAN package on Windows and macOS (@jdblischak, #1730)

• The CRAN-RELEASE file is now added to .Rbuildignore (#1711)

• check() and check_built() now have an error_on argument to specify if they should throw an error on check failures. When run non-interactively this is set to "warnings" unless specified.

• check() now sets _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_ instead of _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_on R versions which support the former option (#1271, #1276, #1702).

• Now use cli package to draw rules - they are more aesthetically pleasing and the correct width in the RStudio build pane (#1627).

• release() has been tweaked to reflect modern submission workflow and to ask questions rather than running code for you (#1632).

• document(), load_all(), check(), build() and test() now automatically save open files when they are run inside the RStudio IDE. (#1576)

• New check_rhub() function to check packages using https://builder.r-hub.io/.

• run_examples was mistakenly passing show to pkgload::run_example, causing it to fail (@amcdavid, #1449)

• New build_manual() function that produces pdf manual for the package (@twolodzko, #1238).

• If you use git release() now generates a file called CRAN-RELEASE that reminds you to tag the commit that you submitted to CRAN (#1198).

• release() once again looks for additional release questions in the correct environment (#1434).

• submit_cran() now checks that you're ready to submit, since this is a potentially expensive operation (#1228)

• check() defaults to running document() only if you have used roxygen previously (#1437).

• Signal an error if commas are missing in between remote entries (#1511, @ianmcook).

• build_vignettes() gains a quiet argument (#1543).

• source_gist() works once more when there is only a single file in the gist (#1266).

• In order to not run test helpers in document(), the helpers argument of  load_all() is set to FALSE (@nbenn, #1669)

• The my_unzip() function is now able to use the utils::unzip fallback when R is compiled from source with no unzip package present (@theGreatWhiteShark, #1678)

• If the foghorn package is installed, release() displays the results of the CRAN checks (#1672, @fmichonneau).

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devtools - devtools v2.0.1

This is a minor release mainly fixing bugs which snuck through in the devtools 2.0.0 release.

• install() now correctly passes the upgrade parameter to remotes::install_deps() (@Paxanator, #1898).

• install_deps() now again works from any directory within a package (#1905)

• Add a RStudio addin for test_coverage().

• All tests which use remote resources are now skipped on CRAN, to avoid spurious failures

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devtools - devtools v2.0.2

• Two tests are not skipped when run on CRAN, as they fail due to an outdated pandoc and restrictions on writing to the package library respectively.

• load_all() now accepts 'package' objects, regaining previous behavior in devtools prior to 2.0.0 (#1923)

• test(), test_coverage() and test_coverage_file() now set the TESTTHAT_PKG environment variable, so it is more consistent with running the tests during R CMD check (testthat#787).

• check() now replaces existing environment variables rather than appending them (#1914).

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Published by jimhester almost 7 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.13.5

• Fix two test errors related to GitHub rate limiting and mocking base functions.

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Published by jimhester about 8 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.13.4

• Fix test errors for upcoming testthat release.

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Published by jimhester over 8 years ago

devtools - Devtools v1.13.3

• Workaround a change in how Rcpp::compileAttributes() stores the symbol names that broke devtools tests.

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devtools - Devtools v1.13.2

Workaround a regression in Rcpp::compileAttributes(). Add trimws() implementation for R 3.1 support.

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devtools - Devtools v1.13.1

• Bugfix for installing from git remote and not passing git2r credentials (@james-atkins, #1498)

• Fix test() compatibility with testthat versions 1.0.2 (#1503).

• Fix install_version(), install_bitbucket(), install_local(), install_url(), install_svn(), install_bioc() gain quiet arguments and properly pass them to internal functions. (#1502)

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devtools - Devtools 1.13.0

This release contains a number of bugfixes and should be the last release of the monolithic devtools package. After this release much of devtools' functionality will be split into separate smaller packages, however the devtools package will still remain as a meta package.

New Features

• spell_check gains a dict argument to set a custom language or dictionary

• release() now checks documentation for spelling errors by default.

• New use_gpl3_license() sets the license field in DESCRIPTION and includes a copy of the license in LICENSE.

Revdep check improvements

• Various minor improvements around checking of reverse dependencies (#1284, @krlmlr). All packages involved are listed at the start, the whole process is now more resilient against package installation failures.

• revdep_check() and revdep_check_resume() gain a skip argument which takes a character vector of packages to skip.

• revdep_check() and check_cran() gain a quiet_check argument. You can use quiet_check = FALSE to see the actual text of R CMD check as it runs (not recommending with multiple threads).

• revdep_check_resume() now takes ... which can be used to override settings from revdep_check(). For debugging a problem with package checks, try revdep_check(threads = 1, quiet_check = FALSE)

• revdep_check() collects timing information in timing.md (#1319, @krlmlr).

• Package names and examples are sorted in case-insensitive C collation (#1322, @krlmlr).

• use_revdep() adds .gitignore entry for check database (#1321, @krlmlr).

• Own package is installed in temporary library for revdep checking (#1338, @krlmlr).

• Automated revdep check e-mails now can use the new my_version and you_cant_install variables. The e-mail template has been updated to use these variables (#1285, @krlmlr).

• Installation failures are logged during revdep checking, by default in revdep/install. Once an installation has failed, it is not attempted a second time (#1300, @krlmlr).

• Print summary table in README.md and problems.md (#1284, @krlmlr).Revdep check improvements (#1284)

Bug fixes and minor improvements

• Handle case of un-installed package being passed to session_info (#1281).

• Using authentication to access Github package name. (#1262, @eriknil).

• spell_check() checks for hunspell before running (#1475, @jimvine).

• add_desc_package() checks for package dependencies correctly (#1463, @thomasp85).

• Remove deprecated args argument from install_git() to allow passthrough to install (#1373, @ReportMort).

• added a quiet argument to install_bitbucket(), with a default value of FALSE (fixes issue #1345, @plantarum).

• update_packages() allows for override of interactive prompt (#1260, @pkq).

• use_test() template no longer includes useless comments (#1349)

• Add encoding support in test_dir() call by adding reference to pkg$encoding (#1306, @hansharhoff)

• Parse valid Git remote URLs that lack trailing .git, e.g. GitHub browser URLs (#1253, @jennybc).

• Add a check_bioconductor() internal function to automatically install BiocInstaller() if it is not installed and the user wants to do so.

• Improve Git integration. use_git_ignore() and use_git_config() gain quiet argument, tests work without setting user.name and user.email Git configuration settings (#1320, @krlmlr).

• Improve Git status checks used in release() (#1205, @krlmlr).

• Improved handling of local file:// repositories in install() (#1284, @krlmlr).

• setup() and create() gain new quiet argument (#1284, @krlmlr).

• Avoid unnecessary query of available_packages() (#1269, @krlmlr).

• Add cache setting to AppVeyor template (#1290, @krlmlr).

• Fix AppVeyor test by manually installing curl (#1301).

• install(dependencies = FALSE) doesn't query the available packages anymore (@krlmlr, #1269).

• use_travis() now opens a webpage in your browser to more easily activate a repo.

• use_readme_rmd() and use_readme() share a common template with sections for package overview, GitHub installation (if applicable), and an example (@jennybc, #1287).

• test() doesn't load helpers twice anymore (@krlmlr, #1256).

• Fix auto download method selection for install_github() on R 3.1 which lacks "libcurl" in capabilities(). (@kiwiroy, #1244)

• Fix removal of vignette files by not trying to remove files twice anymore (#1291)

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devtools - devtools 1.12.0

New features

• New install_bioc() function and bioc remote to install Bioconductor packages from their SVN repository.
• install_dev_deps() gets everything you need to start development on source package - it installs all dependencies, and roxygen2 (#1193).
• use_dev_version() automates the process of switching from a release version number by tweaking the DESCRIPTION, adding a heading to NEWS.md (if present), and checking into git (if you use it) (#1076.)
• use_github() accepts a host argument, similar to install_github() (@ijlyttle, #1101)

Bug fixes and minor improvements

• Update with Rtools-3.4 information, (@jimhester)
• devtools now uses https to access the RStudio CRAN mirror if it will work on your system (#1059)
• Handle case when a GitHub request returns a non-JSON error response. (@jimhester, #1204, #1211)
• Suggested packages, including those specified as Remotes: are now installed after package installation. This allows you to use circular Remotes: dependencies for two related packages as long as one of the dependencies is a Suggested package. (@jimhester, #1184, hadley/dplyr#1809)
• bug fix for installation of binary packages on windows, they must be installed directly from a zip file. (@jimhester, #1191, #1192)
• build_vignette() will now only install the "VignetteBuilder" if it's not present, not try and upgrade it if it is (#1139).
• clean_dll() Only removes package_name.def files and now operates recursively. (@jimhester, #1175, #1159, #1161)
• check_man() now prints a message if no problems are found (#1187).
• install_* functions and update_packages() refactored to allow updating of packages installed using any of the install methods. (@jimhester, #1067)
• install_github() now uses https://api.github.com as the host argument, so users can specify 'http:' or other protocols if needed. (@jimhester, #1131, #1200)
• load_all() runs package hooks before sourcing test helper files allowing test helper to make use of objects created when a package is loaded or attached. (@imanuelcostigan, #1146)
• revdep_check() will now create the revdep/ directory if it does not already exist (#1178).
• source_gist() gains a filename argument to specify a particular file to source from a GitHub gist. (@ateucher, #1172)
• Add a default codecov.yml file to turn off commenting with use_coverage() (@jimhester, #1188)
• Bug fix for 'nchar(text) : invalid multibyte string' errors when running write_dcf() on DESCRIPTION files with non-ASCII encodings (#1224, @jimhester).

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Published by hadley over 9 years ago

devtools - devtools 1.11.1

• Bug fix in search_path_for_rtools() using the gcc-4.9.3 toolchain when there is no rtools setting in the windows registry. (@jimhester, #1155)

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Published by hadley almost 10 years ago

devtools - devtools 1.11.0

Infrastructure helpers

• create_description() now sets Encoding: UTF-8. This helps non-English package authors (#1123).
• All use_ function have been overhauled to be more consistent, particularly arround notification. Most functions now also ask to overwrite if a file already exists (#1074).
• use_coverage() now adds covr to "Suggests", rather than recommending you install it explicitly in .travis.yml.
• use_cran_badge() now uses HTTPS URL (@krlmlr, #1124).
• use_github() now confirms that you've picked a good title and description (#1092) and prints the url of the repo (#1063).
• use_news(), and use_test() open the files in RStudio (if you're using it and have the rstudioapi package installed).
• use_testthat() tells you what it's doing (#1056).
  
• use_travis() generates a template compatible with the newest R-travis.
• use_readme_md() creates a basic README.md template (#1064).
• use_revdep() has an updated template for the new revdep check system (#1090, @krlmlr).
• Removed the deprecated use_coveralls(), add_rstudio_project(), add_test_infrastructure(), and add_travis().

Checks and and release()

• check() now always succeeds (instead of throwing an error when R CMD check finds an ERROR), returning an object that summarises the check failures.
• check() gains run_dont_test and manual arguments to control whether or not \donttest{} tests are tested, or manuals are built. This defaults to FALSE, but release() runs check with it set to TRUE (#1071; #1087, @krlmlr).
• The cleanup argument to check() is deprecated: it now always returns the path to the check directory.
• check_built() allows you to run R CMD check on an already built package.
• check_cran() suppresses X11 with DISPLAY = "".
• release() has been tweaked to improve the order of the questions, and to ensure that you're ok with problems. It warns if both inst/NEWS.Rd and NEWS.md exist (@krlmlr, #1135), doesn't throw error if Git head is detached (@krlmlr, #1136).
• release() gains an args argument to control build options, e.g. to allow passing args = "--compact-vignettes=both" for packages with heavy PDF vignettes (@krlmlr, #1077).
• system_check() gains new arguments path to controls the working directory of the command, and throw to control whether or not it throws an error on command failure. env has been renamed to the more explicit env_vars.

Revdep checks

revdep_check() has been overhauled. All revdep_ functions now work like other devtools functions, taking a path to the package as the first argument.

revdep_check() now saves its results to disk as check/check.rds, and the other revdep() functions read from that cache. This also allows you to resume a partial run with revdep_check_resume(). This should be a big time saver if something goes unexpected wrong in the middle of the checks. You can blow away the cache and start afresh with revdep_check_reset().

revdep_check_save_summary() now creates README.md to save one level of clicking in github. It also creates a problems.md that contains only results for only packages that had warnings or errors. Each problem is limited to at most 25 lines of output - this avoids lengthy output for failing examples. revdep_check_print_problems() prints a bulleted list of problems, suitable for inclusion in your cran-comments.md.

Summary results are reported as they come in, every then messages you'll get a message giving elapsed and estimated remaining time.

An experimental revdep_email() emails individual maintainers with their R CMD check summary results (#1014). See testthat and dplyr for example usage.

There were a handful of smaller fixes: - revdep_check() doesn't complain about missing git2r package anymore (#1068, @krlmlr). - Package index caches for revdep_check() now time out after 30 minutes. - revdep_check_save_logs() has been removed - it is just not that useful. - revdep_check_summary() has been removed - it never should have been part of the exported API.

Other improvements

• Devtools now uses new gcc toolchain on windows, if installed (@jimhester).
• install_git() now allows you to pass credentials to git2r to specify specific ssh credentials (@onlymee, #982)
• load_all() now sources all test helpers if you use testthat. This makes it much easier to interactively run tests (#1125). load_all() also correctly handles unix and windows subdirectories within R (@gaborcsardi, #1102)
• build_win() defaults to only R-devel, since this is most commonly what you want.
• Help shims now inform you that you're using development documentation (#1049).
• git_sha1() Fix fetching the latest git commit so that it also works for shallow git clones, i.e. git clones which make use of depth. (#1048, #1046, @nparley)

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Published by hadley almost 10 years ago

devtools - devtools 1.10.0

New features

• curl, evaluate, roxygen2 and rversions have been moved from Imports to Suggests to lighten the dependency load of devtools. If you run a function that needs one of the packages, you'll prompted to install it (#962, @jimhester).
• Devtools uses a new strategy for detecting RTools on windows: it now only looks for Rtools if you need to load_all() or build() a package with compiled code. This should make it easier to work with devtools if you're developing pure R packages (#947).
• package_file() lets you find files inside a package. It starts by finding the root directory of the package (i.e. the directory that contains DESCRIPTION) (#985).
• use_news_md() adds a basic NEWS.md template (#957).
• use_mit_license() writes the necessary infrastructure to declare and release an R package under the MIT license in a CRAN-compliant way. (#995, @kevinushey)
• check(cran = TRUE) adds --run-donttest since you do need to test code in \dontest() for CRAN submission (#1002).

Package installation

• install() installs packages specified in the Additional_repositories field, such as drat repositories. (#907, #1028, @jimhester). It correctly installs missing dependencies (#1013, @gaborcsardi). If called on a Bioconductor package, include the Bioconductor repositories if they are not already set (#895, @jimhester).
• install() gains a metadata argument which lets you add extra fields to the DESCRIPTION on install. (#1027, @rmflight)
• install_github() and install_git() only downloads and installs the package if the remote SHA1 reference differs from the currently installed reference (#903, @jimhester).
• install_local() captures git and github information and stores it in the DESCRIPTION (#1027, @rmflight).
• install_version() is more robust when handling multiple repos (#943, #1030, @jimhester).
• Bugfix for Remotes: feature that prevented it from working if devtools was not attached as is done in travis-r (#936, @jimhester).

Bug fixes and minor improvements

• check_dev_versions() checks only package dependencies (#983).
• check_man() replaces check_doc() (since most other functions are named after the corresponding directory). check_doc() will hang around as an alias for the forseeable future (#958).
• create() produces a dummy namespace will fake comment so roxygen2 will overwrite silently (#1016).
• create() and setup() are more permissive -- they now accept a path to either a new directory or empty directory. (#966, @kevinushey)
• document() now only runs update_collate() once.
• load_all() resolves a longstanding lazy load database corruption issue when reloading packages which define S3 methods on generics from base or other packages (#1001, @jimhester).
• release_checks() gains two new checks:
  • check_vignette_titles() checks that your vignette titles aren't the default "Vignette Title" (#960, @jennybc).
  • check_news_md() checks that NEWS.md isn't in your .Rbuildignore (since it's now supported by CRAN, #1042).
• revdep_check():
  • More verbose about which package is installed (#926, @krlmlr)
  • Verifies the integrity of already downloaded package archives (#930, @krlmlr)
  • Is now more tolerant of errors when retrieving the summary for a checked package (#929, @krlmlr).
  • When ncpus > 1, it includes the package name for when so you know which package has failed and can start looking at the output without needing to wait for all packages to finish (@mattdowle).
  • Uses proper repository when BiocInstaller::useDevel(TRUE) (#937, @jimhester).
• Shimmed system.file() now respects mustWork = TRUE and throws an error if the file does not exist (#1034).
• use_appveyor() template now creates failure.zip artifact instead of polluting the logs with R CMD check output (#1017, @krlmlr, @HenrikBengtsson).
• use_cran_comments() template has been improved (#1038).
• use_data() now warns when trying to save the same object twice, and stops if there is no object to save (#948, @krlmlr).
• use_revdep_check() no longer includes revdep_check_save_logs in default template. I found I never used the logs and they just cluttered up the package directory (#1003).
• with_*() functions have moved into the withr package, and devtools functions have been deprecated (#925, @jimhester).

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devtools - devtools 1.9.1

• Avoid importing heavy dependencies to speed up loading (#830, @krlmlr).
• Remove explicit library(testthat) call in test() (#798, @krlmlr).
• as.package() and load_all() gain new argument create. Like other functions with a pkg argument, load_all() looks for a DESCRIPTION file in parent directories - if create = TRUE it will be automatically created if there's a R/ or data/ directory (#852, @krlmlr).
• build_vignettes() gains dependencies argument (#825, @krlmlr).
• build_win() now uses curl instead of RCurl for ftp upload.
• check() now uses a better strategy when cran = TRUE. Instead of attempting to simulate --as-cran behaviour by turning on certain env vars, it now uses --as-cran and turns off problematic checks with env vars (#866). The problematic cran_env_vars() function has been removed.
• find_rtools() now looks for registry keys in both HKCU (user) and HKLM (admin) locations (@Kevin-Jin, #844)
• install() can now install dependencies from remote repositories by specifying them as Remotes in the DESCRIPTION file (#902, @jimhester). See vignette("dependencies") for more details.
• install_*() detects if called on a Bioconductor package and if so, automatically includes the Bioconductor repositories if needed (#895, @jimhester).
• install_deps() now automatically upgrades out of date dependencies. This is typically what you want when you're working on a development version of a package. To suppress this behaviour, set upgrade_dependencies = FALSE (#863). install_deps() is more careful with ... - this means additional arguments to install_* are more likely to work (#870).
• install_gitorious() has been removed since gitorious no longer exists (#913).
• load_all() no longer fails if a useDynLib() entry in the NAMESPACE is incorrect. This should make it easy to recover from an incorrect @useDynLib, because re-documenting() should now succeed.
• release() works for packages not located at root of git repository (#845, #846, @mbjones).
• revdep_check() now installs suggested packages by default (#808), and sets NOT_CRAN env var to false (#809). This makes testing more similar to CRAN so that more packages should pass cleanly. It also sets RGL_USE_NULL to true to stop rgl windows from popping up during testing (#897). It also downloads all source packages at the beginning - this makes life a bit easier if you're on a flaky internet connection (#906).
• New uninstall() removes installed package (#820, @krlmlr).
• Add use_coverage() function to add codecov.io or coveralls.io to a project, deprecate use_coveralls() (@jimhester, #822, #818).
• use_cran_badge() uses canonical url form preferred by CRAN.
• use_data() also works with data from the parent frame (#829, @krlmlr).
• use_git_hook() now creates .git/hooks if needed (#888)
• GitHub integration extended: use_github() gains a protocol argument (ssh or https), populates URL and BugReports fields of DESCRIPTION (only if non-existent or empty), pushes to the newly created GitHub repo, and sets a remote tracking branch. use_github_links() is a new exported function. dr_github() diagnoses more possible problems. (#642, @jennybc).
• use_travis(): Default travis script leaves notifications on default settings.
• uses_testthat() and check_failures() are now exported (#824, #839, @krlmlr).
• use_readme_rmd() uses uses_git() correctly (#793).
• with_debug() now uses with_makevars() rather than with_env(), because R reads compilation variables from the Makevars rather than the environment (@jimhester, #788).
• Properly reset library path after with_lib() (#836, @krlmlr).
• remove_s4classes() performs a topological sort of the classes (#848, #849, @famuvie).
• load_all() warns (instead of failing) if importing symbols, methods, or classes from NAMESPACE fails (@krlmlr, #921).

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Published by hadley over 10 years ago

devtools - devtools 1.8.0

Helpers

• New dr_devtools() runs some common diagnostics: are you using the latest version of R and devtools? It is run automatically by release() (#592).
• use_code_of_conduct() adds a contributor code of conduct from http://contributor-covenant.org. (#729)
• use_coveralls() allows you to easily add test coverage with coveralls (@jimhester, #680, #681).
• use_git() sets up a package to use git, initialising the repo and checking the existing files.
• use_test() adds a new test file (#769, @krlmlr).
• New use_cran_badge() adds a CRAN status badge that you can copy into a README file. Green indicates package is on CRAN. Packages not yet submitted or accepted to CRAN get a red badge.

Package installation and info

• build_vignettes() automatically installs the VignetteBuilder package, if necessary (#736).
• install() and install_deps() gain a ... argument, so additional arguments can be passed to utils::install.packages() (@jimhester, #712). install_svn() optionally accepts a revision (@lev-kuznetsov, #739). install_version() now knows how to look in multiple repos (#721).
• package_deps() (and dev_package_deps()) determines all recursive dependencies and whether or not they're up-to-date (#663). Use update(package_deps("xyz")) to update out of date dependencies. This code is used in install_deps() and revdep_check() - it's slightly more aggressive than previous code (i.e. it forces you to use the latest version), which should avoid problems when you go to submit to CRAN.
• New update_packages() will install a package (and its dependencies) only if they are missing or out of date (#675).
• session_info() can now take a vector of package names, in which case it will print the version of those packages and their dependencies (#664).

Git and github

• Devtools now uses the git2r package to inspect git properties and install remote git packages with install_git(). This should be considerably more reliable than the previous strategy which involves calling the command line git client. It has two small downsides: install_git() no longer accepts additional args, and must do a deep clone when installing.
• dr_github() checks for common problems with git/github setup (#643).
• If you use git, release() now warns you if you have uncommited changes, or if you've forgotten to synchronise with the remote (#691).
• install_github() warns if repository contains submodules (@ashander, #751).

Bug fixes and minor improvements

• Previously, devtools ran all external R processes with R --vanilla. Now it only suppresses user profiles, and constructs a custom .Rprofile to override the default. Currently, this .Rprofile sets up the repos option. Among others, this enables the cyclic dependency check in devtools::release (#602, @krlmlr).
• R_BROWSER and R_PDFVIEWER environment variables are set to "false" to suppress random windows opening during checks.
• Devtools correctly identifies RTools 3.1 and 3.2 (#738), and preserves continuation lines in the DESCRIPTION (#709).
• dev_help() now uses normalizePath(). Hopefully this will make it more likely to work if you're on windows and have a space in the path.
• lint() gains a cache argument (@jimhester, #708).
• Fixed namespace issues related to stats::setNames() (#734, #772) and utils::unzip() (#761, @robertzk).
• release() now reminds you to check the existing CRAN check results page (#613) ands shows file size before uploading to CRAN (#683, @krlmlr).
• RCMD() and system_check() are now exported so they can be used by other packages. (@jimhester, #699).
• revdep_check() creates directories if needed (#759).
• system_check() combines arguments with , not,. (#753)
• test() gains an ... argument so that additional arguments can be passed to testthat::test_dir (@jimhester, #747)
• use_travis() now suggests you link to the svg icon since that looks a little sharper. Default template sets CRAN: http://cran.rstudio.com/ to enable the cyclic dependency check.
• NOT_CRAN envvar no longer overrides externally set variable.
• check(check_version = TRUE) also checks spelling of the DESCRIPTION; if no spell checker is installed, a warning is given (#784, @krlmlr).

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Published by hadley almost 11 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.7.0

Improve reverse dependency checking

Devtools now supports a new and improved style of revdep checking with use_revdep(). This creates a new directory called revdep which contains a check.R template. Run this template to check all reverse dependencies, and save summarised results to check/summary.md. You can then check this file into git, making it much easier to track how reverse dependency results change between versions. The documentation for revdep_check() is much improved, and should be more useful (#635)

I recommend that you specify a library to use when checking with options("devtools.revdep.libpath"). (This should be a directory that already exists). This should be difference from your default library to keep the revdep environment isolated from your development environment.

I've also tweaked the output of revdep_maintainers() so it's easier to copy and paste into an email (#634). This makes life a little easier pre-release.

New helpers

• lint() runs lintr::lint_package() to check style consistency and errors in a package. (@jimhester, #694)
• use_appveyor() sets up a package for testing with AppVeyor (@krlmlr, #549).
• use_cran_comments() creates a cran-comments.md template and adds it to .Rbuildignore to help with CRAN submissions. (#661)
• use_git_hook() allows you to easily add a git hook to a package.
• use_readme_rmd() sets up a template to generate a README.md from a README.Rmd with knitr.

Minor improvements

• Deprecated doc_clean argument to check() has been removed.
• Initial package version in create() is now 0.0.0.9000 (#632). create() and create_description() checks that the package name is valid (#610).
• load_all() runs roxygen2::update_collate() before loading code. This ensures that files are sourced in the way you expect, as defined by roxygen @include tags. If you don't have any @include tags, the collate will be not be touched (#623).
• session_info() gains include_base argument to also display loaded/attached base packages (#646).

• release() no longer asks if you've read the CRAN policies since the CRAN submission process now asks the same question (#692).

  release(check = TRUE) now runs some additional custom checks. These include:

  • Checking that you don't depend on a development version of a package.
  • Checking that the version number has exactly three components (#633).

  release() now builds packages without the --no-manual switch, both for checking and for actually building the release package (#603, @krlmlr). build() gains an additional argument manual, defaulting to FALSE, and check() gains ... unmodified to build().

• use_travis() now sets an environment variable so that any WARNING will also cause the build to fail (#570).

• with_debug() and compiler_flags() set CFLAGS etc instead of PKG_CFLAGS. PKG_* are for packages to use, the raw values are for users to set. (According to http://cran.rstudio.com/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#Using-Makevars)

• New setup() works like create() but assumes an existing, not necessarily empty, directory (#627, @krlmlr).

Bug fixes

• When installing a pull request, install_github() now uses the repository associated with the pull request's branch (and not the repository of the user who created the pull request) (#658, @krlmlr).
• missing_s3() works once again (#672)
• Fixed scoping issues with unzip().

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Published by hadley about 11 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.6.1

• Don't set non-portable compiler flags on Solaris.
• The file template.Rproj is now correctly installed and the function use_rstudio works as it should. (#595, @hmalmedal)
• The function use_rcpp will now create the file src/.gitignore with the correct wildcards. (@hmalmedal)

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Published by hadley over 11 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.6

devtools 1.6

Tool templates and create()

• create() no longer generates man/ directory - roxygen2 now does this automatically. It also no longer generates an package-level doc template. If you want this, use use_package_doc(). It also makes a dummy namespace so that you can build & reload without running document() first.
• New use_data() makes it easy to include data in a package, either in data/ (for exported datasets) or in R/sysdata.rda (for internal data). (#542)
• New use_data_raw() creates data-raw/ directory for reproducible generation of data/ files (#541).
• New use_package() allows you to set dependencies (#559).
• New use_package_doc() sets up an Roxygen template for package-level docs.
• New use_rcpp() sets up a package to use Rcpp.
• use_travis() now figures out your github username and repo so it can construct the markdown for the build image. (#546)
• New use_vignette() creates a draft vignette using Rmarkdown (#572).
• renamed add_rstudio_project() to use_rstudio(), add_travis() to use_travis(), add_build_ignore() to use_build_ignore(), and add_test_infrastructure() to use_testthat() (old functions are aliased to new)

The release process

• You can add arbitrary extra questions to release() by defining a function release_questions() in your package. Your release_questions() should return a character vector of questions to ask (#451).
• release() uses new CRAN submission process, as implemented by submit_cran() (#430).

Package installation

• All install_* now use the same code and store much useful metadata. Currently only session_info() takes advantage of this information, but it will allow the development of future tools like generic update functions.
• Vignettes are no longer installed by default because they potentally require all suggested packages to also be installed. Use build_vignettes = TRUE to force building and to install all suggested packages (#573).
• install_bitbucket() has been bought into alignment with install_github(): this means you can now specify repos with the compact username/repo@ref syntax. The username is now deprecated.
• install_git() has been simplified and many of the arguments have changed names for consistency with metadata for other package installs.
• install_github() has been considerably improved:
  • username is deprecated - please include the user in the repo name: rstudio/shiny, hadley/devtools etc.
  • dependencies = TRUE is no longer forced (regression in 1.5) (@krlmlr, #462).
  • Deprecated parameters auth_user, branch, pull and password have all been removed.
  • New host argument which allows you to install packages from github enterprise (#410, #506).
  • The GitHub API is used to download archive file (@krlmlr, #466) - this makes it less likely to break in the future.
  • To download a specified pull request, use ref = github_pull(...) (@krlmlr, #509). To install the latest release, use "user/repo@*release" or ref = github_release() (@krlmlr, #350).
• install_gitorious() has been bought into alignment with install_github(): this means you can now specify repos with the compact username/repo@ref syntax. You must now always supply user (project) name and repo.
• install_svn() lets you install an R package from a subversion repository (assuming you have subversion installed).
• decompress() and hence install_url() now work when the downloaded file decompresses without additional top-level directory (#537).

Other minor improvements and bug fixes

• If you're using Rstudio, and you you're trying to build a binary package without the necessary build tools, Rstudio will prompt to download and install the right thing. (#488)
• Commands are no longer run with LC_ALL=C - this no longer seems necessary (#507).
• build(binary = TRUE) creates an even-more-temporary package library avoid conflicts (#557).
• check_dir() no longer fails on UNC paths (#522).
• check_devtools() also checks for dependencies on development versions of packages (#534).
• load_all() no longer fails on partial loading of a package containing S4 or RC classes (#577).
• On windows, find_rtools() is now run on package load, not package attach.
• help(), ?, and system.file() are now made available when a package is loaded with load_all(), even if the devtools package isn't attached.
• httr 0.3 required (@krlmlr, #466).
• load_all() no longer gives an error when objects listed as exports are missing.
• Shim added for library.dynam.unload().
• loaded_packages() now returns package name and path it was loaded from. (#486)
• The parenvs() function has been removed from devtools, because is now in the pryr package.
• missing_s3() uses a better heuristic for determining if a function is a S3 method (#393).
• New session_info() provides useful information about your R session. It's a little more focussed than sessionInfo() and includes where packages where installed from (#526).
• rstudioapi package moved from suggests to imports, since it's always needed (it's job is to figure out if rstudio is available, #458)
• Implemented own version utils::unzip() that throws error if command fails and doesn't print unneeded messages on non-Windows platforms (#540).
• Wrote own version of write.dcf() that doesn't butcher whitespace and fieldnames.

Removed functionality

• The fresh argument to test() has been removed - this is best done by the editor since it can run the tests in a completely clean environment by starting a new R session.

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devtools - devtools 1.5

devtools 1.5

Four new functions make it easier to add useful infrastructure to packages: - add_test_infrastructure() will create test infrastructure for a new package. It is called automatically from test() if no test directories are found, the session is interactive and you agree. - add_rstudio_project() adds an Rstudio project file to your package. create() gains an rstudio argument which will automatically create an Rstudio project in the package directory. It defaults to TRUE: if you don't use Rstudio, just delete the file. - add_travis() adds a basic travis template to your package. .travis.yml is automatically added to .Rbuildignore to avoid including it in the built package. - add_build_ignore() makes it easy to add files to .Rbuildignore, correctly escaping special characters

Two dependencies were incremented: - devtools requires at least R version 3.0.2. - document() requires at least roxygen2 version 3.0.0.

Minor improvements

• build_win() now builds R-release and R-devel by default (@krlmlr, #438). It also gains parameter args, which is passed on to build() (@krlmlr, #421).
• check_doc() now runs document() automatically.
• install() gains thread argument which allows you to install multiple packages in parallel (@mllg, #401). threads argument to check_cran() now defaults to getOption("Ncpus")
• install_deps(deps = T) no longer installs all dependencies of dependencies (#369).
• install_github() now prefers personal access tokens supplied to auth_token rather than passwords (#418, @jeroenooms).
• install_github() now defaults to dependencies = TRUE so you definitely get all the packages you need to build from source.
• devtools supplies its own version of system.file() so that when the function is called from the R console, it will have special behavior for packages loaded with devtools.
• devtools supplies its own version of help and ?, which will search devtools-loaded packages as well as normally-loaded packages.

Bug fixes

• check_devtools() no longer called by check() because the relevant functionality is now included in R CMD CHECK and it was causing false positives (#446).
• install_deps(TRUE) now includes packages listed in VignetteBuilder (#396)
• build() no longer checks for pdflatex when building vignettes, as many modern vignettes don't need it (#398). It also uses --no-build-vignettes for >3.0.0 compatibility (#391).
• release() does a better job of opening your email client if you're inside of Rstudio (#433).
• check() now correctly reports the location of the R CMD check output when called with a custom check_dir. (Thanks to @brentonk)
• check_cran() records check times for each package tested.
• Improved default DESCRIPTION file created by create_description(). (Thanks to @ncarchedi, #428)
• Fixed bug in install_github() that prevented installing a pull request by supplying repo = "username/repo#pull". (#388)
• explicitly specify user agent when querying user name and ref for pull request in install_github. (Thanks to Kirill Müller, #405)
• install_github() now removes blank lines found in a package DESCRIPTION file, protecting users from the vague error: contains a blank line error. (#394)
• with_options() now works, instead of throwing an error (Thanks to @krlmlr, #434)

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Published by hadley almost 12 years ago

devtools - devtools 1.4.1

• Fixed bug in wd() when path was ommitted. (#374)
• Fixed bug in dev_help() that prevented it from working when not using Rstudio.
• source_gist() respects new github policy by sending user agent (hadley/devtools)
• install_github() now takes repo names of the form [username/]repo[/subdir][@ref|#pull] - this is now the recommended form to specify username, subdir, ref and/or pull for install_github. (Thanks to Kirill Müller, #376)

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Published by hadley over 12 years ago

devtools - Devtools 1.4

Installation improvements

• install() now respects the global option keep.source.pkgs.
• install() gains a build_vignettes which defaults to TRUE, and ensures that vignettes are built even when doing a local install. It does this by forcing local = FALSE if the package has vignettes, so R CMD build can follow the usual process. (#344)
• install_github() now takes repo names of the form username/repo - this is now the recommended form for install_github if your username is not hadley ;)
• install_github() now adds details on the source of the installed package (e.g. repository, SHA1, etc.) to the package DESCRIPTION file. (Thanks to JJ Allaire)
• Adjusted install_version() to new meta data structure on CRAN. (Thanks to Kornelius Rohmeyer)
• Fixed bug so that install_version() works with version numbers that contain hyphens. (Thanks to Kornelius Rohmeyer)
• install_deps() is now exported, making it easier to install the dependencies of a package.

Other minor improvements

• build(binary = TRUE) now no longer installs the package as a side-effect. (#335)
• build_github_devtools() is a new function which makes it easy for Windows users to upgrade to the development version of devtools.
• create_description() does a better job of combining defaults and user specified options. (#332)
• install() also installs the dependencies that do not have the required versions; besides, the argument dependencies now works like install.packages() (in previous versions, it was essentially c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo")) (thanks, Yihui Xie, #355)
• check() and check_cran() gain new check_dir argument to control where checking takes place (#337)
• check_devtools() no longer incorrectly complains about a vignettes/ directory
• Decompression of zip files now respects getOption("unzip") (#326)
• dev_help will now use the Rstudio help pane, if you're using a recent version of Rstudio (#322)
• Release is now a little bit smarter: if it's a new package, it'll ask you to read and agree to the CRAN policies; it will only ask about dependencies if it has any.
• source_url() (and source_gist()) accept SHA1 prefixes.
• source_gist() uses the github api to reliably locate the raw gist. Additionally it now only attempts to source files with .R or .r extensions, and gains a quiet argument. (#348)
• Safer installation of source packages, which were previously extracted directly into the temp directory; this could be a problem if directory names collide. Instead, source packages are now extracted into unique subdirectories.

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Published by hadley over 12 years ago