drat 0.2.0: Now with ‘docs/’
A new release of drat arrived on CRAN today. This is the first release in a few months (with the last release in July of last year) and it (finally) makes the leap to supporting docs/ in the main branch as we are all so tired of the gh-pages branch. We also have new vignettes, new (and very shiny) documentation and refreshed vignettes!
drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Since its inception in early 2015 it has found reasonably widespread adoption among R users because repositories with marked releases is the better way to distribute code. See below for a few custom reference examples.
Because for once it really is as your mother told you: Friends don’t let friends install random git commit snapshots. Or as we may now add: stay away from semi-random universes snapshots too.
Properly rolled-up releases it is. Just how CRAN shows us: a model that has demonstrated for two-plus decades how to do this. And you can too: drat is easy to use, documented by (now) six vignettes and just works.
The NEWS file summarises the release as follows:
Changes in drat version 0.2.0 (2021-04-21)
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 ofgh-pagesbranch (Dirk in #112)A new repository https://github.com/drat-base/drat can now be used to fork an initial
dratrepository (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.
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More detailed information is on the drat page.
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This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.
