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@hadley hadley released this 17 Jan 13:22
v1.7.0
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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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