News for Package drat

Changes in drat version 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).

Changes in drat version 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

Changes in drat version 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)

Changes in drat version 0.1.2 (2016-10-28)

• 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

Changes in drat version 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

Changes in drat version 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

Changes in drat version 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

Changes in drat version 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

Changes in drat version 0.0.2 (2015-03-01)

• Added (optional) git2r support

• New pruneRepo() functionality

Changes in drat version 0.0.1 (2015-02-04)

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