NEWS

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drat 0.2.5 (2024-10-21)

• Function insertPackage has a new optional argument OSflavour (Arne Holmin in #142)

• A test file conditions correctly about git2r being present (Dirk)

• Several smaller packaging updates and enhancements to continuous integration and documentation have been added (Dirk)

drat 0.2.4 (2023-10-09)

• macOS Arm M1 repos are now also supported in pruning and archival (Joey Reid in #135 fixing #134)

• A minor vignette typo was fixed (Dirk)

• A small error with setwd() in insertPackage() was corrected (Dirk)

• macOS x86_64 repos (on big-sur) are now supported too (Arne Johannes Holmin in #139 fixing #138)

• A few small maintenance tweaks were applied to the CI setup, and to the main README.md

drat 0.2.3 (2022-04-13)

• Arm M1 repos are now supported (#126 and #131 fixing #125)

• A vignette typo has been fixed (#130)

drat 0.2.2 (2021-12-02)

• Travis artifacts and badges have been pruned

• Vignettes now use simplermarkdown

drat 0.2.1 (2021-07-10)

• Two internal functions now have a note in their documentation stating them as not exported (Dirk in response to #123)

• Repositories created by initRepo now have an placeholder index.html to not trigger a curl check at CRAN (Dirk)

• Adding to a repository now checks for a top-level index.html and displays a message if missing (Dirk)

• The DratStepByStep.Rmd vignette mentions the added index.html file

drat 0.2.0 (2021-04-22)

• A documentation website for the package was added at https://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/ (Dirk)

• The continuous integration was switched to using ‘r-ci’ (Dirk)

• The docs/ directory of the main repository branch can now be used instead of gh-pages branch (Dirk in #112)

• A new repository https://github.com/drat-base/drat can now be used to fork an initial drat repository (Dirk)

• A new vignette “Drat Step-by-Step” was added (Roman Hornung and Dirk in #117 fixing #115 and #113)

• The test suite was refactored for docs/ use (Felix Ernst in #118)

• The minimum R version is now ‘R (>= 3.6)’ (Dirk fixing #119)

• The vignettes were switched to minidown (Dirk fixing #116)

• A new test file was added to ensure ‘NEWS.Rd’ is always at the current release version.

drat 0.1.8 (2020-07-18)

• The archive pruning test code was corrected for r-oldrel (Felix Ernst in #105 fixing #104).

drat 0.1.7 (2020-07-10)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Functions insertPackages, archivePackages and prunePackages are now vectorised (Patrick Schratz and Felix Ernst in #93, #100).

  • The new functionality is supported by unit tests (Felix Ernst in #93, and #102 fixing #101).

  • Added new function updateRepo (Felix Ernst in #95, #97).

drat 0.1.6 (2020-05-30)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Support for the various (current) macOS binary formats was rewritten (Felix Ernst in #89 fixing #88).

  • Travis CI use was updated to R 4.0.0 and bionic (Dirk).

  • A drat repo was added to the README (Thomas Fuller in #86)

drat 0.1.5 (2019-03-28)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Windows paths are handled better when inserting packages (Neal Fultz in #70)

  • Binary packages are now supported for the pruneRepo and archivePackages commands (Christoph Stepper in #79).

• Changes in drat documentation

  • Properly prefix R path in system call in a tests (Dirk in minor cleanup to #70).

drat 0.1.4 (2017-12-16)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Binaries for macOS are now split by R version into two different directories (Neal Futz in #67 addring #64).

  • The target branch can now be set via a global option (Neal Futz in #68 addressing #61).

  • In commit mode, add file PACKAGES.rds unconditionally.

• Changes in drat documentation

  • Updated 'README.md' removing another stale example URL

drat 0.1.3 (2017-09-16)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Ensure 'PACKAGES.rds', if present, is also inserted in repo

  • Use https to fetch Travis CI script from r-travis

• Changes in drat documentation

  • Updated 'README.md' removing stale example URLs (#63)

drat 0.1.2 (2016-10-29)

• Changes in drat documentation

  • The FAQ vignette added a new question Why use drat

  • URLs were made canonical, omegahat.net was updated from .org

  • Several files (README.md, Description, help pages) were edited

drat 0.1.1 (2016-08-07)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • Use dir.exists, leading to versioned Depends on R (>= 3.2.0)

  • Optionally pull remote before insert (Mark in PR #38)

  • Fix support for dots (Jan G. in PR #40)

  • Accept dots in package names (Antonio in PR #48)

  • Switch to htpps URLs at GitHub (Colin in PR #50)

  • Support additional fields in PACKAGE file (Jan G. in PR #54)

• Changes in drat documentation

  • Further improvements and clarifications to vignettes

  • Travis script switched to run.sh from our fork

  • This NEWS file was (belatedly) added

drat 0.1.0 (2015-08-08)

• Changes in drat functionality

  • New function to optionally archive packages when inserting

  • Improved OS X support

• Changes in drat documentation

  • Added note about miniCRAN to FAQ vignette

  • DESCRIPTION now credits all contributors

  • Updated / expanded vignettes

drat 0.0.4 (2015-05-26)

• Corrections to vignettes

• Added Windows and OS X support (Jan Schulz in PR #16)

• New vignette Drat FAQ started

• More improvement to code and behaviour

drat 0.0.3 (2015-04-10)

• Small extensions and corrections to existing functionality

• New helper script git2targz.sh

• Improved documentation

• New vignette by Steven Pav on Why Drat?

• New vignette by Colin Gilespie on Drat and Travis

• New vignettes for package authors, and users

drat 0.0.2 (2015-03-01)

• Added (optional) git2r support

• New pruneRepo() functionality

drat 0.0.1 (2015-02-05)

• Initial version with insert(), add() and more