# devtools The aim of `devtools` is to make your life as a package developer easier by providing R functions that simplify many common tasks. Devtools is opinionated about how to do package development, and requires that you use `roxygen2` for documentation and `testthat` for testing. Future version will relax these opinions - patches are welcome! You can track (and contribute to) development of `devtools` at https://github.com/hadley/devtools. For discussion related to package development with devtools see the [rdevtools](http://groups.google.com/group/rdevtools) mailing list. devtools 0.7 ------------ INSTALLATION * `install_bitbucket` installs R packages on bitbucket. * `install` now uses `--with-keep.source` to make debugging a little easier. * All remote install functions give better error messages in the case of http errors (Fixes #82). * `install` has new quick option to make package installation faster, by sacrificing documentation, demos and multi-architecture binaries. (Fixes #77) * `install_url`, `install_github` and `install_gitorious` gain a subdir argument which makes it possible to install packages that are contained within a sub-directory of a repository or compressed file. (Fixes #64) CHECKING * `with_debug` function temporarily sets env vars so that compilation is performed with the appropriate debugging flags set. Contributed by Andrew Redd. * `revdep`, `revdep_maintainers` and `revdep_check` for calculating reverse dependencies, finding their maintainers and running `R CMD check`. (Fixes #78) * `check_cran` has received a massive overhaul: it now checks multiple packages, installs dependencies (in user specified library), and parses check output to extract errors and warnings * `check` uses new `--as-cran` option to make checking as close to CRAN as possible (fixes #68) OTHER NEW FEATURES * devtools now uses options `devtools.path` to set the default path to use with devmode, and `github.user` to set the default user when installing packages from github. * if no package supplied, and no package has been worked with previously, all functions now will try the working directory. (Fixes #87) * on windows, devtools now looks in the registry to find where Rtools is installed, and does a better a job of locating gcc. (Contributed by Andrew Redd) * `show_rd` passes `...` on to `Rd2txt` - this is useful if you're checking how build time `\Sexpr`s are generated. * A suite of `with` functions that allow you to temporarily alter the environment in which code is run: `in_dir`, `with_collate`, `with_locale`, `with_options`, `with_path`, ... (Fixes #89) * `release` ask more questions and randomises correct answers so you really need to read them (Fixes #79) * `source_gist` now accepts default url such as "https://gist.github.com/nnn" * New system path manipulation functions, `get_path`, `set_path`, `add_path` and `on_path`, contributed by Andrew Redd. * If you're on windows, `devtools` now suppresses the unimportant warning from CYGWIN about the dos style file paths BUG FIXES * `decompress` now uses target directory as defined in the function call when expanding a compressed file. (Fixes #84) * `document` is always run in a C locale so that `NAMESPACE` sort order is consistent across platforms. * `install` now quotes `libpath` and build path so paths with embedded spaces work (Fixes #73 and #76) * `load_data` now also loads `.RData` files (Fixes #81) * `install` now has `args` argument to pass additional command line arguments on to `R CMD install` (replaces `...` which didn't actually do anything). (Fixes #69) * `load_code` does a better job of reconciling files in DESCRIPTION collate with files that actually exist in the R directory. (Fixes #14) -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages