News for Package RPushbullet

Version 0.3.5 (2025-10-08)

URL and BugReports fields have been added to DESCRIPTION
The pbPost function deals more robustly with the case of multiple target emails
The continuous integration and the README badge have been updated
The DESCRIPTION file now use Authors@R
The (encrypted) unit test configuration has been adjusted to reflect the current set of active devices
The mkdocs-material documentation site is now generated via altdoc

Return code checking using error code content if it exists (Thomas Shafer in #64).
Enabled GitHub Actions with encrypted JSON file for API access.
Added a package documentation website.

UTF-8 encoding is now used (Chan-Yub Park in #55).
Curl can use HTTP/1.1 (Alexandre Shannon in #59 fixing #57, plus Dirk in #60 making it optional).

The Travis setup was robustified with respect to the token need to run tests (Dirk in #48)
The configuration file is now readable only by the user (Colin Gillespie in #50)
At startup initialization is now more consistent (Colin Gillespie in #53 fixing #52)
A new function to fetch prior posts was added (Chan-Yub Park in #54).

The target device designation was corrected (#39).
Three new (unexported) helper functions test now test the validity of the api key, device and channel (Seth in #41).
The summary method for the pbDevices class was corrected (Seth in #43).
New helper functions pbValidateConf, pbGetUser, pbGetChannelInfo were added (Seth in #44 closing #40).
New classes pbUser and pbChannelInfo were added (Seth in #44).
Travis CI tests (and covr coverage analysis) are now enabled via an encrypted config file (#45).

The curl binary use was replaced by use of the curl package; several new helper functions added (PRs #30, #36 by Seth closing #29)
Use of RJSONIO was replaced by use of jsonlite (PR #32 by Seth closing #31)
A new function pbSetup was added to aid creating the resource file (PRs #34, #37 by Seth and Dirk)
The package intialization was refactored so that non-loading calls such as RPushbullet::pbPost(…) now work (#33 closing #26)
The test suite was updated and extended
The Travis script was updated use run.sh
DESCRIPTION, README.md and other files were updated for current R CMD check standards
Deprecated parts such as ‘type=address’ were removed, and the documentation was updated accordingly.
Coverage support was added (in a ‘on-demand’ setting as automated runs would need a Pushbullet API token)

Added support for Pushbullet ‘channels’ (once again thanks to Mike Birdgeneau for the initial push on this; cf #18)
Support for pushes was solidified: proper choices of either device, email or channel should work in all cases
S3 methods are now properly exports (thanks to Henrik Bengtsson)
File transfer mode has been improved / corrected (thanks to Mike Birdgeneau)
The regression test suite was expanded and robustified
This NEWS file was added. Better late than never.