NEWS.md

In watcher: Watch the File System for Changes

watcher 0.1.5

• Fixed issue on Windows where watching with a latency < 1 caused high CPU usage (#32, thanks @RichardHooijmaijers).

watcher 0.1.4

• Watcher can now use a system 'libfswatch' installed in a non-standard location (#28).

watcher 0.1.3

• watcher() now accepts a vector for the path argument to monitor multiple files or directories (#16).

• Fixes Windows bi-arch source builds for R <= 4.1 using rtools40 and earlier (#19).

watcher 0.1.2

• Adds $get_path() and $is_running() methods to the Watcher R6 class.
• Use these rather than the fields path and running, as they have been made private.

watcher 0.1.1

• Updates bundled 'libfswatch' source package to 1.19.0-dev.

watcher 0.1.0

• Initial CRAN release.

watcher documentation built on Dec. 2, 2025, 1:06 a.m.