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Changes in roxyPackage version 0.10-2 (2024-07-23)

fixed

news2rss(): adjusted to newer HTML scheme again, which now uses <html><body><div><main> instead of <html><body><div> for its content

changed

ChangeLog: corrected the entry that a workaround for XiMpLe was added to not get confused by an empty "defer" attribute; this was fixed in XiMpLe 0.11-1 and so the workaround had been removed before the final 0.10-1 release of roxyPackage

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.10-1 (2023-03-03)

fixed

news2rss(): adjusted to newer HTML scheme, which now uses <html><body><div> instead of just <html><body> for its content
debianizeKeyring(): default package description now uses a proper synopsis
debianize()/debianizeKeyring(): description lines are now adjusted to adhere to the 80 character limit
roxy.html(): tracked down an issue that prevented the generation of index.html files because XMLNode() was given a list

added

roxy.package(): new argument "pck.aliases" to manually define aliases used in the *-package.Rd file, useful if your package has the same name as one of its functions or methods
roxy.package(): added usethis block to *-package.Rd file
roxy.package(): added generator note to *-package.Rd file, so you know it won't last long if you edited the file manually

changed

debianize()/debianizeKeyring(): lifted Standards-Version to 4.6.1.1, compat level to 10, and changed Priority from "extra" to "optional" also for keyring packages
internally, private function autoLineBreak() is now a mere wrapper for strwrap() for simple cases
package now depends on XiMpLe >=0.11-1, making workarounds for empty XML attributes obsolete
internally, XML/HTML code is no longer generated using XiMpLe::XMLNode(), but helper functions like a_() or span_(), using XiMpLe::gen_tag_functions()

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.06-5 (2021-05-10)

fixed

debianize(): the generated copyright file now has https instead of http in the format URL
debianizeKeyring(): no longer use ASCII armored key files but binary only
debianizeKeyring(): dropped deprecated support for /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/, also "apt-key add" is no longer used. keys are just copied to /usr/share/keyrings/ and therefore *must* be pinned explicitly for the reposiory via "[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/...]". this is the more secure approach, but wasn't supported before 2017
roxy.package(): if roxyPackage was in sandbox mode, there were issues finding the RSS image

added

roxy.package(): new action "buildEmAll" to trigger builds for multiple versions of R (if more than one was provided also)
roxy.package(): new action "gitCheckout" to switch to a tagged release for binary rebuilds, works well in sandbox mode
roxy.package(): HTML page for debain package installation now explains how to break the circle and successfully install the keyring package if apt refuses to install it because the keyring package wasn't installed yet
roxy.package(): HTML page now links to ORCID if a valid ID is provided as a person's comment named "ORCID"; it will ask you to call orcid_icon_fetcher() as well, to fetch the correct icon file
orcid_icon_fetcher(): small helper function to download the ORCID SVG icon into your repository should you need one
roxy.package(): if pandoc is available, README.md and NEWS.md will be compiled into HTML versions and linked in a package's index page unser "Materials"
roxy.package(): new argument "R.libs.append" to add R libraries that are by default included during package builds

changed

roxy.package(): adjusted ordering of enties in repo HTML page similar to CRAN (contributed by robert nuske)
roxy.package(): HTML pages for debian repositories now suggest to include "signed-by" in the lists files
roxy.package(): the generated README.md now suggests "devtools::install_github()" instead of loading the package first
roxy.package(): "cleanRd" no longer throws a warning for each file changed, but one summary warning listing all affected files
roxy.package(): the ChangeLog was moved to "Materials" on a package's index page, next to README.html and NEWS.html
roxy.package(): if R >= 4.0 is detected, the default directory for debian package files will be set to "debR40" instead of "deb"
removed deprecated internal functions deb.gen.prerm() and deb.gen.postinst()
debianizeKeyring(): you can now define multiple OpenPGP keys to sign the Release files, which can be used to seamlessly replace a soon expired key

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.06-4 (2018-07-29)

fixed

roxy.package(): explicitly set the R library for multiple R builds

added

debianize(): new argument "deb.dir" to use a custom debian main directory for the package repository, mainly to make it possible to have separate repos for incompatible R versions
debianize(): now tries to add proper r-api-* package dependencies if R >= 3.2 is detected
debianizeKeyring() also gained the new "deb.dir" argument
sandbox(): new argument "clean" to wipe an existing sandbox before setting up a new vanilla one

changed

roxy.package(): if R >= 3.5 is detected, the default directory for debian package files will be set to "debR35" instead of "deb"
roxy.package(): added "buildVignettes" to the actions only performed only during first run if building for multiple R versions
archive.packages(): "deb.dir" must now also be set explicitly in the "deb.options"
roxy.description(): updated internal function responsible for setting up the *-package.R file to use more macros (\packageTitle{}, \packageDescription{}, \packageAuthor{}, and \packageMaintainer{}); didn't yet get \packageDESCRIPTION{} or \packageIndices{} to generate useful info, so that's still done the old way

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.06-3 (2018-05-07)

fixed

roxy.package(): fixed a HTML issue introduced with the html.options "imprint" and "privacy.policy"

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.06-2 (2018-05-06)

fixed

roxy.package(): use "el-capitan" as the default symlink for macOS repos
roxy.package(): unset some environment variables that might cause trouble if building for multiple R versions

added

roxy.package(): new html.options "imprint" and "privacy.policy" to add links to respective pages from your repo

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.06-1 (2018-03-08)

fixed

debianize(): worked around a bug in utils::tar() rendering it almost useless
fixed a really dumb bug in archive.packages() setting the PGP key to 2 by default for "deb" archives

changed

the package now needs at least R >= 3.0.0, all code fragments which tried to keep supporting R 2.14 and even earlier were removed. no-one should use that any longer
the arguments 'html.index' and 'html.title' were moved to 'index' and 'title' of a new option list called 'html.options' for more consistency; old code should still work for the time being, but trigger a warning – please update your scripts!
cleaned up dependencies, now using mostly imports instead
set debhelper default dependency to >> 9.0.0 (instead of >> 7.0.0)
worked around the news2Rd issue by copying the function to the internal namespace
there's also no longer a need to call private functions from the XiMpLe package
replaced private function last.dir.name() with base function basename()
repo: changed the way symlinks are set for macOS; we're now creating the top level directory and link to ../contrib, to work around issues with infinite link loops; this does not affect existing repos, only new ones
since Flattr totally changed its API and stuff, the Flattr integration was updated. no more buttons will be generated, instead a meta tag is added to HTML and/or markdown documents. this also means you need to remove the 'flattrUser' value from 'readme.options' and add your meta tag ID to the new 'html.options' for this to work correctly
vignette is now in RMarkdown/HTML format; the SWeave/PDF version was dropped

added

rnw2rmd(): new function that tries to convert Sweave vignettes into R markdown
package_description(): new function to make it easier to generate proper package description objects (prevent typos, demand mandatory fields, value checks)
debianize(): explain in the docs that setting a package in "depends.origin.alt" to NULL will enable you to provide the full R debian package name
roxy.html(): URLs in the form of "(... <...>)" are now automatically turned into <a href> nodes; i hope the parser doesn't introduce new issues
roxy.html(): fields "Additional_repositories" and "NeedsCompilation" are now also evaluated
roxy.package(): vignette generation now takes an existing .install_extras file into account when moving/copying files
roxy.package(): new action "vignette" can be used to generate an initial vignette stub file
roxy.package(): new action "buildVignettes" forces rebuilding all vignettes during the "package" action, to make sure a proper vignette index is present in the source tarball; this was made configurable via its own action because it is a bit time consuming during builds and usually only neccessary for actual releases

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.05-3 (2017-06-09)

fixed

debianize(): the "append" feature for dependencies in was broken
archive.packages() now defaults to gpg2 as well
debianize(): the HTML instructions look pretty again, worked around a layout problem caused by XiMpLe's auto-indentation in <pre> tags
roxy.package(): internal use of tools::getVignetteInfo() was unaware of custom R libs.
added robert nuske as an official contributor to the package

changed

R versions older that 3.0 should no longer be around (it was released four years ago). support for these older versions will be removed in one of the future releases. for now, a warning is shown, announcing that use with R <3.0 is deprecated
debianize(): the R version used for build dependencies in "control" is now taken from DESCRIPTION by default, not the current version
debianize(): the package description in "control" is now similar to CRAN2deb
cleaned up all tests, using two new/revised internal functions roxyPackage:::generateTestPackage() and roxyPackage:::removeTestPackage()
updated vignette to include templateFile()
roxy.html(): HTML page now lists all contributors indicating their roles (contributed by robert nuske)
roxy.package(): checks should be done on built packages, the "check" action now throws a warning if checks are done on unpackaged sources (which is the case if you omit the "package" action)
roxy.html(): we're now also including the comments of person objects
roxy.package(): the README.md file generated by the "readme" action now flags the installation code as R syntax
debianize(): bumped default compat level from 7 to 9 and added "compat" to the files that are updated by default

added

new function templateFile() to quickly generate new source file templates for functions, S4 classes and methods, including some hopefully useful defaults (copyright, roxygen documentation and code stubs)
roxy.package(): the "URL" option can now also be a named list to be able to either host the debian repo on a different server, or to configure the use of a "mirror.list" and a custom "debian.path"
roxy.package(): the HTML instructions for debian packages now also lists the package source files
new EXPERIMENTAL feature: there are cases where roxygenize() somehow fails but e.g. document() of the devtools package doesn't. you can now use roxyPackage:::set.roxyEnv(name="roxyFunction", value=devtools::document) to overwrite the function that is being used to roxygenize the docs. use this with caution! it is experimental for a reason!
roxy.html(): HTML page now also lists LinkingTo: and SystemRequirements: if present (contributed by robert nuske)
roxy.package(): source and windows builds now also include an MD5 file

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.05-2 (2017-02-26)

fixed

replaced some tilde characters in the vignette by \textasciitilde
debinanizing failed with certain versions of dpkg-parsechangelog expecting a space after "–count"

changed

added "readme" action to vignette
changed the docs to suggest to give the most recent R version first in line when building for multiple versions. the debianizing is now also done during the first run
internal function GPGsign() now forces both cert-digest-algo and digest-algo to be set to SHA256; for now, this is hard coded but could be made configurable if requested
reaktanz.de supports HTTPS now, updated references

added

internal function GPGsign() is now also capable of generating InRelease files; they will automatically be added to debian repos from now on
HTML page now also lists Imports and BugReports, which can either be a URL or mail address (contributed by robert nuske)
if all of 'Date', 'Packaged', and 'Date/Publication' are missing in DESCRIPTION, pck.date will now be used as well (contributed by robert nuske)
support for vignette types other than PDF (contributed by robert nuske)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.05-1 (2016-07-12)

fixed

R CMD check should be performed on built packages, not source directories. this is now the case if you run the "check" action also with "package" enabled
fixed a path issue causing problems to find package sources when in full sandboxing mode, most importantly, this affected the internal function prep.sndbx.source.dir()
normalized paths in internal function mvToArchive(), called by archive.packages()
using tools::package_dependencies() instead of tools::package.dependencies() if R >= 3.3
the tar() function of R produced broken archives with files added multiple times

changed

the code for checks was moved to the end of roxy.package()
removed deb.gen.changelog.old(), it was unused since 0.04-2
debianize() now generates machine-readable copyright files
when debianizeKeyring() is called from debianize() or roxy.rackage(), it is now able to fetch the repo URL
removed overwrite argument from internal function deb.update.release() because it actually didn't have any effect anyway
revert back to adding standard LICENSE files instead of LICENSE.txt, as none of them are accepted on CRAN anyway
code cleaning (loops)
removed the internal package description (obsolete)

added

new action "readme" to generate an initial README.md file
new action "binonly" to enable binary-only rebuilds
HTML page now lists all found binary packages for a package if it is available for more than one R version in the repository
archive.packages() can now also archive Debian repositories; it gained new arguments keep.revisions and deb.options for fine-tuning
if readme.options contains a Flattr user and URL is set, a Flattr button will also be added to the repository HTML page
debianize() has a new option keep.existing.orig to prevent binary-only rebuilds from overwriting existing *.orig.[gz|xz] archives

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.04-4 (2016-02-04)

fixed

re-activated the unit tests that were shut down with 0.03-11 due to https://github.com/hadley/testthat/issues/86 as there's now a workaround fixing tests/testthat.R
removed leftover tests/test_roxyPackage_package.R
updated URL to roxygen2 in docs
fixed title case in title field
fixed imports in NAMESPACE file

changed

moved unit tests to tests/testthat
added dch and dpkg-parsechangelog to dependecy checks of debianize()
default section for debian R packages is now "gnu-r" instead of "math"
archive.packages() now uses type "mac.binary" instead of the deprecated "mac.binary.leopard"

added

new option "OSX.repo" to deal with the constantly changing paths of binary repos for max OS X

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.04-3 (2015-06-29)

fixed

internal function parseChangeLog() now checks for proper version and date information and throws an error if one is missing, as suggested by robert nuske
making sure the "inst" directory exists before trying to copy a NEWS.Rd file there

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.04-2 (2015-03-05)

fixed

debian packages with a dot in their names were overlooked when it came to generating the HTML docs
somehow a wrong release date for 0.03-12 sneaked into the ChangeLog...
newlines in DESCRIPTION caused debianize() to misread dependency information and quit with an error
roxygen2 can produce too long comment lines in Rd file heads; using "cleanRd" on this resulted in broken Rd files because the comment char was missing

changed

removed the options "local.roxy.dir" and "roxy.unlink.target" from roxy.package(), as their counterparts are no longer supported by roxygen2. if you still need those options (working with ancient roxygen2 versions), use "roxygen.dir" and "unlink.target" in "..." instead
removed the workaround call to roxygen2:::source_package() as well, it doesn't seem to be necessary any longer
roxy.package() now uses "–install-tests" as default option for "R CMD install"
debianize() now passes "build.dir" on to debianizeKeyring() as a default
debianize() now uses dch and dpkg-parsechangelog to manage debain/changelog, which is much more robust than the previous construction

added

a new RKWard plugin allows you to really quickly get started with your own roxyPackage script
basic support for "cph" (copyright holder) field in author roles

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.04-1 (2014-06-14)

fixed

tools::buildVignettes() doesn't produce PDFs if they are already present; remove present PDFs, if the "doc" action is active. the vignettes creation was reworked to deal with vignettes directories more smoothly, e.g. create inst/doc and copy results and sources there
debianize() didn't auto-append default dependencies correctly
docs of debianize() falsely still said that source packaging wasn't implemented
example in debianize() showed description in lowercase, which wouldn't work
debianize() didn't get multiple authors quite all right
the copyright file generated by debianize() missed out the homepage and overwrite rule
signature changes to roxygenize() in roxygen2 >= 4.0.0 are now implemented
the logic to remove build directories for debian packages could have dangerous consequences if you chose them unwise; now, the directory will only be removed if it was empty before the build process

changed

debianize() gained the new argument "repo.name", used for generating a debian package from the OpenPGP key used for secure apt. you should set this to something different from the default if you plan to actually publish the repository – if you don't, you'll get a warning
expect gpg2 as the default (earlier versions defaulted to gpg)
moved code for generation of several debian package files into autonomous internal functions
suppressed the LaTeX output, so the console messages are more comprehensible
in the sources, moved definition of classes and methods to files with more speaking names
removed the temporary hack to test roxygen3, since roxygen2 4.x is already released and runs out-of-the-box with this version of roxyPackage
source packages for debian now default to xz compression

added

new function debianizeKeyring() can generate debian packages from OpenPGP keys
new argument "compression" for debianize()

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-12 (2014-03-15)

fixed

tools::pkgVignettes() and tools::buildVignettes() stopped working without an existing DESCRIPTION file. working around that by moving the calls to a place where the file should be present already
added a workaround for roxygen2 >= 3.0.0, calling roxygen2:::source_package() to overcome unsolved issues with its S4 implementation

changed

managed to remove some of the setwd() calls, but some don't seem to be replaceable as of now. this seems to trigger the problems with the unit tests, so they remain deactivated in tests/ test_roxyPackage_package.R, but have been revived in inst/tests/test,R
added a proper GPL notice at the beginning of each R file
replaced all tabs in the source code by two space characters

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-11 (2013-10-27)

fixed

another attempt to fix the .find.package() issue (see log for 0.03-5), as suggested by kurt hornik
typo in docs to debianize() corrected ("epoch" instead of "Epoch")
dep4deb() now always returns $dl as a matrix
"–no-vignettes" is deprecated as of R 3.0.0, replaced with "–no-build-vignettes"
corrected some ::: operators into ::
new action "cleanRd" checks for lines longer than 90 chars in Rd files and adds automatic line breaks (with a warning). otherwise R CMD check would complain and the package wouldn't be accepted on CRAN. this is actually a workaround for a bug in roxygen2, regarding automatically generated usage sections
in the generated DESCRIPTION file, authors and contributors will no longer be listed with their e-mail address, just plain names
sandboxing and running the "check" action now also copies suggested packages to the sandbox folders if neccessary

removed

removed the unit tests for this release, because they suddenly stopped working with "R CMD check" (while still running fine from an R session). i.e., it's not that the tests themselves fail, but the testthat package stops with yet mysterious errors. i filed a report, hope this can be solved soon: https://github.com/hadley/testthat/issues/86

changed

the vignette was moved from inst/doc to inst/vignettes
some lines in the docs were too long and have been shortened
internal function autoLineBreak() returns a nameless character vector now
beginning with this version, roxyPackage is no longer hosted on CRAN. its policies and checks have become more strict over time, and since the alternative would have been to reduce this package's features to remain in full compliance, i decided to have the package removed instead. the problem is this: the NEWS.Rd related features rely on calls to the internal function tools:::news2Rd(), as is even recommended in the manual to news(); CRAN doesn't allow this use of an internal functions, even if it's exactly what the R docs say.

added

another EXPERIMENTAL feature: call 'roxyPackage:::set.roxyEnv(name="Rdevel", value=TRUE)' and 'roxyPackage:::set.roxyEnv(name="Rversion", value="x.y.z")' to manually set an arbitrary R version string to be able to build against bleeding edge R-devel installations
new roxy.package() arguments "Rbuildignore" and "Rinstignore" can be used to control .Rbuildignore and .Rinstignore files, respectively

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-10 (2013-06-11)

added

debianize(): support for epoch in debian package versioning
debianize(): support for appending package dependencies rather than replacing the automatically found
debianize(): support for arbitrary fields in "deb.description"

fixed

the *-package.R file used to contain an alias of the package name alone, which would cause trouble if there's a function or similar by the same name/alias. now only the alias '<package name>-package' will be included.

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-9 (2013-05-10)

fixed

internal function dateRFC2822() now always forces LC_TIME into locale "C" temporarily, instead of trying to use "en_GB.UTF-8" (which is not available on all machines). this small function is needed for timestamps in Debian changelogs
fixed the split-up of debinaizing actions for multiple R installations: the previous implementation accidently dropped package building completely

added

new function dep4deb() can recursively download dependencies for a given package. this is still in its early stages and probably buggy, and i am also considering placing all Debian related functionality into a package of its own (which would become a dependency of roxyPackage), soon.

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-8 (2013-05-07)

fixed

due to a silly bug, debianize() usually ignored the fields "Homepage" and "Essential" for the control file

added

debianize() can now try to build a valid debian package directly from arbitrary package sources; it will try to generate plausible dependencies from the R package names provided in DESCRIPTION
debianize() does also try to include package "Suggests" automagically
added some basic unit tests, using the testthat package

changed

the default "origin" value of debianize() has been changed from "other" to "other-roxypackage"
debianize() now adds dependecies to r-base-core (instead of r-base) and debhelper >= 7.0.0 (instead of >= 4.1.0) if none are given
debianize() doesn't set the maintainer of upstream as the debian package maintainer by default any longer, but generates a maintainer ID from system information and throws a warning. this should encourage everyone to set at least valid maintainer information manually
if multiple R installations are provided, the "deb" action will be split up: debianizing the sources will be done during first run, but package building during the last

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-7 (2013-04-16)

fixed

OS X binary packages for R >= 3.0.0 will now be stored in $REPOSITORY/bin/macosx/contrib, and no longer in $REPOSITORY/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-6 (2013-04-07)

added

debianize() now supports both strict package names according to the Debain R Policy as well as package names with a dot, whichever is expected by your r-cran.mk file. Ignoring the policy is the default, as that is the de-facto standard.

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-5 (2013-03-30)

fixed

.find.package() will soon be removed from R, replaced it with find.package() for R >= 2.13

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-4 (2013-03-12)

changed

internally replaced paste(..., sep="") with paste0(...), and added a version dependent wrapper for compatibility with R < 2.15

added

AGPL and Artistic License 2.0 have been added to the common licenses

fixed

license files are now called LICENSE.txt; this is to prevent their installation, as suggested by 'Writing R Extensions'

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-3 (2013-02-13)

added

extended sandboxing possibilities to archive.packages() and debianize()

changed

sandbox() will now remove all paths set if "active" is FALSE

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-2 (2013-02-11)

added

new sandbox feature, see ?sandbox() and ?sandbox.status(). this needs testing, and future releases will get support for this in all relevant functions, not just roxy.package(), as it is now.

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.03-1 (2013-01-29)

changed

split documentation for ChangeLog functions and methods

added

there is now an EXPERIMENTAL option to be able to toy around with roxygen3: call 'roxyPackage:::set.roxyEnv(name="roxygenVersion", value=3)' to enable some hidden features, i.e. use roxygen3::roxygenise() instead of roxygen2::roxygenize(). you need to install and load the roxygen3 package first – temper with this at your own risk. please note: there will probably never be an official roxygen3 package on CRAN, and once its features were merged into roxygen2, this option might be patched out of roxyPackage again.
this is the first version of roxyPackage supposed to be released on CRAN

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-23 (2013-01-25)

changed

updated vignette

fixed

debian installation notes will not be linked from a package's HTML page if there is no built debian package in the repository

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-22 (2012-10-30)

changed

the title for *-package.R files now states "The <package name> Package" instead of the Title: entry from the description

fixed

order of ChangeLog entries is now checked, so that the newest entries get on top

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-21 (2012-10-14)

added

new action "log" generates an initial ChangeLog, if none is found
introducing new functions initChangeLog(), readChangeLog(), writeChangeLog(), as well as the methods getChangeLogEntry() and updateChangeLog(). they are probably not bug-free, but should ease the management of proper R ChangeLogs considerably.

changed

this ChangeLog was read-in by readChangeLog(), updated with the log entries for this release by updateChangeLog(), and written back with writeChangeLog().

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-20 (2012-09-29)

fixed

contributors in Author@R/Authors@R fields are now also added to *-package.R and DESCRIPTION
the "check" option "–as-cran" is automatically stripped for R < 2.15

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-19 (2012-09-09)

changed

the "check" action now has "–as-cran" set as the default option

added

the "doc" action now also supports "vignette" subdirectories in addition to "inst/doc" for vignette files
added new function archive.packages() to move old versions of packages to an archive directory, or to remove them for good. since this is potentially dangerous and needs some rounds of testing, its "reallyDoIt"-option needs to be set to TRUE manually, otherwise a dry run is done, i.e., all actions are only printed and not done, so you can check the outcome first.

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-18 (2012-07-30)

fixed

using shortPathName() to fix problems on windows caused by the path normalization introduced with 0.02-17 (thanks to henrik singmann for tracking this one down)

changed

wrote some new internal helper functions, namely createMissingDir() and removeIfExists(), and replaced their manual pendants in the roxy.package() code, which is now easier to read

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-17 (2012-07-20)

fixed

the tar option "–exclude-vcs" is not always implemented, especially not in the BSD tar of Mac OS X; so excluding version control directories is now done in a more manual manner in roxyPackage
also, on Mac OS X the tar binary is now identified using Sys.which("tar")
finally, "–exclude=*~" caused trouble if path names contained a tilde for $HOME, so this was replaced with a more reliable way to exclude backup~ files as well
all root paths are now normalized before first use, especially to perform tilde expansion, because this lead to errors with tar()

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-16 (2012-07-12)

fixed

HTML generation now also works if there's no "Author:" field in the DESCRIPTION

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-15 (2012-06-10)

changed

the data.frame with the package description doesn't need to have entries for "Author" or "Maintainer" any more, as long as "Authors@R" is present

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-14 (2012-06-05)

fixed

roxyPackage now supports multiple vignette files in one package
fixed problems if the repository isn't on the same file system as the sources

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-13 (2012-05-12)

fixed

fixed malformed BibTeX entry in CITATION if more than one author given

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-12 (2012-05-11)

fixed

line breaks were missing in repo HTML, which lead to malformed <pre> sections
debian repo information will now generally be prepared for binary and source packages

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-11 (2012-04-29)

added

added a vignette
debianize() now creates debian/compat, by default set to level 7

changed

status messages are more consistent now
the link to a debian binary package moved from the general package HTML page to the debian repository info page

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-10 (2012-04-19)

added

debianize() now checks if a given GnuPG key is already available as a file in the repository, and if not, saves is as <key ID>.asc
the "html" action now also adds auto-generated information on how to install debian packages from the maintained repository

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-9 (2012-04-15)

added

this is the first package, along with its dependecies, which is also available as a debian package build with roxyPackage

changed

if information is to be fetched from a DESCRIPTION file and there is no "Date" field, roxy.package() considers "Packaged" and then "Date/Publication" as fallback alternatives (and throws a warning)
the actions "deb", "roxy", "cite", "license", "doc", "cl2news" and "news2rss" are now only run once for builds against multiple R installations, because their outcome should be the same anyway

fixed

'deb.options' are now also passed to recursive calls of roxy.package(), although there's still no solution for actual builds against multiple R installations

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-8 (2012-04-14)

added

roxy.package() now checks for needed fields in DESCRIPTION, if that file is used to get info on the package, and throws an error if something is missing
installation now includes common-licenses.zip
roxy.package() has a new action "license" to detect the package license and save a copy of common free software licenses as the package's LICENSE file

changed

added hints on dependencies to the debianize() docs

fixed

regex to get author info without e-mail address for debian/copyright now works with multiple authors
fixed some formatting issues with debian/copyright

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-7 (2012-04-11)

added

debianize() can now sign Release files with GnuPG
roxy.package() has a new action "deb" and a new parameter 'deb.options', to invoke debianize() directly
debian packages are now added to the html index files

changed

Release files in debianize() are now generated with apt-ftparchive
debianize() talks a little more about what it's busy with
debian package dependencies now detect R version for "r-base" and "r-base-dev"

fixed

debian package dependencies now default to "r-base" instead of "r-base-dev"

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-6 (2012-04-10)

added

initial (and rather experimental...) support for debianizing packages with the debianize() function

changed

internal function dateRFC2822() now does the date conversion for news2rss()

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-5 (2012-04-07)

added

generated index.html pages now have a generator meta tag, like the RSS feeds

fixed

removed initial tabulator in BibTeX entries of generated citation.html

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-4 (2012-04-06)

fixed

zip() should now *really* ignore backup files (ending with a tilde)

changed

'cleanup=TRUE' now recursively removes backup files in the source directory

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-3 (2012-04-05)

using Rd2pdf instead of Rd2dvi for R >= 2.15 now; in 'Rcmd.options', Rd2dvi will still be recognized, though zip() should now ignore backup files (ending with a tilde)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-2 (2012-03-18)

RSS feeds in HTML header now also state the package name (action "html") re-wrote HTML genrating functions, now all is done use XiMpLe methods

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.02-1 (2012-03-14)

added new function news2rss() to write RSS feeds (XML) from NEWS.Rd/NEWS.html files action "html" now adds the RSS feed for a package to the HTML header and news link exported a new function, cl2news(), which now carries out the action by the same name, but can also used stand-alone added dependency to the XiMpLe package to make the handling of all HTML/XML stuff easier removed "target" attributes from HTML anchors to comply with XHTML 1.0 strict

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-20 (2012-03-11)

action "html" now also writes an index.html file to the repository root directory

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-19 (2012-03-10)

added option to manually specify options to the internal R CMD calls to roxy.package() fixed build for multiple R homes, now using R CMD INSTALL instead of install.packages() OS is now checked and on Windows shell() is used instead of system() fixed broken "check" action on Windows added action "cl2news" to transform ChangeLogs into NEWS.Rd action "html" now transforms inst/NEWS.Rd into NEWS.html and links this in index.html, if found replaced unicode symbols in entities() with \uxxxx ASCII escapes

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-18 (2012-02-09)

removed null function roxygen() from package description files, NULL alone is sufficient in roxygen2

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-17 (2012-01-04)

fixed a problem with line breaks in author information (e.g., for multiple contributors)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-16 (2011-11-21)

repo directory is now checked and created automatically from the start (thanks to natalia belgorodski for reporting the issue)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-15 (2011-11-10)

added support for HTML citation info added function entities(), mainly to scramble mail adresses html package info now also links to ChangeLog, if found fixed typo in html descriptions (some missing colons)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-14 (2011-11-09)

roxy.package() now tries to read DESCRIPTION if pck.description=NULL

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-13 (2011-11-08)

added support to create HTML index pages to list available packages

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-12 (2011-10-20)

roxy.package() now tries to get every descriptive information from DESCRIPTION if actions don't include "roxy"

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-11 (2011-10-04)

roxy.package() now uses version number and date from DESCRIPTION if actions don't include "roxy"

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-10 (2011-09-23)

further tweaked handling of Authors@R for CITATION files

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-9 (2011-09-17)

added support for manual setting of R.home

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-8 (2011-09-16)

enhanced handling of Authors@R for CITATION files

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-7 (2011-09-11)

added support for "Authors@R", as needed by R >= 2.14 added support for different "Type" values in DESCRIPTION

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-6 (2011-09-01)

added package check action added option to keep/remove vignette PDF in source package

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-5 (2011-08-22)

updated docs

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-4 (2011-08-21)

fixed a path bug in roxy.package()

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-3 (2011-08-18)

added support for "Author@R" and CITATION files

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-2 (2011-08-17)

added tools dependency to use write_PACKAGES() added mac OS X support (pure R only)

Changes in roxyPackage version 0.01-1 (2011-08-14)

initial release via reaktanz.de

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