News for Package littler

Changes in littler version 0.3.3 (2017-12-17)

• Changes in examples

  • The script installGithub.r now correctly uses the upgrade argument (Carl Boettiger in #49).

  • New script pnrrs.r to call the package-native registration helper function added in R 3.4.0

  • The script install2.r now has more robust error handling (Carl Boettiger in #50).

  • New script cow.r to use R Hub's check_on_windows

  • Scripts cow.r and c4c.r use #!/usr/bin/env r

  • New option --fast (or -f) for scripts build.r and rcc.r for faster package build and check

  • The build.r script now defaults to using the current directory if no argument is provided.

  • The RStudio getters now use the rvest package to parse the webpage with available versions.

• Changes in package

  • Travis CI now uses https to fetch script, and sets the group

Changes in littler version 0.3.2 (2017-02-14)

• Changes in examples

  • New scripts getRStudioServer.r and getRStudioDesktop.r to download daily packages, currently defaults to Ubuntu amd64

  • New script c4c.r calling rhub::check_for_cran()

  • New script rd2md.r to convert Rd to markdown.

  • New script build.r to create a source tarball.

  • The installGitHub.r script now use package remotes (PR #44, #46)

Changes in littler version 0.3.1 (2016-08-06)

• Changes in examples

  • install2.r now passes on extra options past -- to R CMD INSTALL (PR #37 by Steven Pav)

  • Added rcc.r to run rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck()

  • Added (still simple) render.r to render (R)markdown

  • Several examples now support the -x or --usage flag to show extended help.

• Changes in build system

  • The AM_LDFLAGS variable is now set and used too (PR #38 by Mattias Ellert)

  • Three more directories, used when an explicit installation directory is set, are excluded (also #38 by Mattias)

  • Travis CI is now driven via run.sh from our fork, and deploys all packages as .deb binaries using our PPA where needed

• Changes in package

  • SystemRequirements now mentions the need for libR, i.e. an R built with a shared library so that we can embed R.

  • The docopt and rcmdcheck packages are now suggested, and added to the Travis installation.

  • A new helper function r() is now provided and exported so that the package can be imported (closes #40).

  • URL and BugReports links were added to DESCRIPTION.

• Changes in documentation

  • The help output for installGithub.r was corrected (PR #39 by Brandon Bertelsen)

Changes in littler version 0.3.0 (2015-10-29)

• Changes in build system

  • First CRAN Release as R package following nine years of source releases

  • Script configure, src/Makevars.in and remainder of build system rewritten to take advantage of the R package build infrastructure

  • Reproducible builds are better supported as the (changing) compilation timestamps etc are only inserted for 'verbose builds' directly off the git repo, but not for Debian (or CRAN) builds off the release tarballs

• Changes in littler functionality

  • Also source $R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site and ~/.Rprofile if present

• Changes in littler documentation

  • Added new vignette with examples