News for Package drat

Version 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)

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

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

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.

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

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).

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)

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 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 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 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 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 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