NEWS

RPushbullet 0.3.4 (2021-03-01)

Return code checking using error code content if it exists (Thomas Shafer in #64).
Enabled GitHub Actions with encrypted JSON file for API access.
Added a package documentation website.

UTF-8 encoding is now used (Chan-Yub Park in #55).
Curl can use HTTP/1.1 (Alexandre Shannon in #59 fixing #57, plus Dirk in #60 making it optional).

The Travis setup was robustified with respect to the token need to run tests (Dirk in #48)
The configuration file is now readable only by the user (Colin Gillespie in #50)
At startup initialization is now more consistent (Colin Gillespie in #53 fixing #52)
A new function to fetch prior posts was added (Chan-Yub Park in #54).

The target device designation was corrected (#39).
Three new (unexported) helper functions test now test the validity of the api key, device and channel (Seth in #41).
The summary method for the pbDevices class was corrected (Seth in #43).
New helper functions pbValidateConf, pbGetUser, pbGetChannelInfo were added (Seth in #44 closing #40).
New classes pbUser and pbChannelInfo were added (Seth in #44).
Travis CI tests (and covr coverage analysis) are now enabled via an encrypted config file (#45).

The curl binary use was replaced by use of the curl package; several new helper functions added (PRs #30, #36 by Seth closing #29)
Use of RJSONIO was replaced by use of jsonlite (PR #32 by Seth closing #31)
A new function pbSetup was added to aid creating the resource file (PRs #34, #37 by Seth and Dirk)
The package intialization was refactored so that non-loading calls such as RPushbullet::pbPost(...) now work (#33 closing #26)
The test suite was updated and extended
The Travis script was updated use run.sh
DESCRIPTION, README.md and other files were updated for current R CMD check standards
Deprecated parts such as 'type=address' were removed, and the documentation was updated accordingly.
Coverage support was added (in a 'on-demand' setting as automated runs would need a Pushbullet API token)

Added support for Pushbullet 'channels' (once again thanks to Mike Birdgeneau for the initial push on this; cf #18)
Support for pushes was solidified: proper choices of either device, email or channel should work in all cases
S3 methods are now properly exports (thanks to Henrik Bengtsson)
File transfer mode has been improved / corrected (thanks to Mike Birdgeneau)
The regression test suite was expanded and robustified
This NEWS file was added. Better late than never.