remote_package_name.github_remote()
now works properly on Windows (#248)
install_bioc()
repositories now updated for the Bioconductor 3.8 release.
(#239)
install_*
functions now set the R_LIBS*
environment variables for
child processes correctly on Windows (@HenrikBengtsson, #253)
install_*
functions now support the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE
environment
variable, to set the default for the upgrade
argument. See README for
details (@kevinushey, #240).
install_*
functions perform basic HTTP authentication using HTTP
headers now. This fixes an issue with install_bitbucket()
and private
repos (#255).
install_*
functions now respect the download.file.method
option,
if download_file()
is used for HTTP.
install_*
functions now use the libcurl method, if the
download.file.method
option is not set to a different one, and libcurl
is available. Before, the wininet method was preferred on Windows.
If you rely on the proxy configuration of wininet, then you might
want to set the download.file.method
option, or use another way to
set up proxies, see ?download.file
.
install_deps()
now installs un-installed remotes packages even when
upgrade = "never"
(@ankane, #227)
install_version()
now removes metadata added as a byproduct of using
install_url()
internally() (#224)
install()
now avoids converting warnings to errors if
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS
is unset and
_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false
. This avoids failures due to Suggested
packages potentially being missing.
install_bitbucket()
now works properly with packages in subdirectories
(#220)
install_deps()
now installs un-installed packages even when upgrade =
"never"
(#218)
install_github()
now bundles a GitHub PAT which is used on Travis to avoid
hitting the rate limit too frequently. It also contains a more informative
error message when the rate limit is hit on how to setup a GitHub personal
access token.
The dialog when upgrade = "ask"
now has a 'CRAN only' option, to update
only CRAN packages.
No longer include project specific .Rprofile code in the temporary .Rprofile when
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS=false
(the default).
update.package_deps()
no longer prompts to install uninstalled
dependencies, they are always installed (#203).
available_packages()
, available_packages_set()
and
available_packges_reset()
added to allow caching of the
available.packages()
database.
install_github()
's previously deprecated username
argument has been
removed. (#142)
install_deps()
's threads
argument has been removed, use the Ncpus
argument instead (#153, #154)
install_git()
's branch
argument has been renamed to ref
and branch
has been deprecated.
remotes now builds packages by default before installing them. This step
uses the pkgbuild package, if avilable. If not, it calls R CMD build
directly.
New install_dev()
to install the development version of a CRAN package,
based on the URL and BugReports fields in the DESCRIPTION file (#144).
install_()*
functions now temporally put Rtools on the PATH when necessary,
as long as the pkgbuild package is installed.
remotes can be forced to use only its internal code by setting the
environment variable R_REMOTES_STANDALONE
= "true". This is useful when
installing optional dependencies of remotes on Windows, such as curl or git2r
(#147)
When installing, remotes now errors on warnings, to catch cases where packages are only partially installed. This often happens on windows when the package dll is opened in another R process (#113).
install_()
functions now pass arguments, including authentication
information and upgrade down to dependencies (#53, #86, #87).
install_()
functions allow the seclection of a subset of packages to
upgrade, in interactive mode, when upgrade = "ask"
.
install_git()
now supports passing credentials, when it is used with
git = "git2r"
(#106)
install_()
functions now return the name of the package(s) which were
installed (#55).
git submodules are now installed if they exist and a git client is available (#138, #133, #103, #82).
New install_gitlab()
and install_bioc()
functions, to install
gitlab
and bioc
remote types.
remotes now uses the same SHA updating logic for remotes as devtools, including checking if the SHA of the remote has changed since the last istallation. (#135)
install_url()
can now install package binaries on windows
(r-lib/devtools#1765)
install_deps()
et al. now do not rewrite the type
argument from both
to binary
to allow falling back to source
. This fixes various
installation failures.
remotes now looks up GitHub package names locally, if possible, and uses the GitHub REST API (if the curl package is available, and not in standalone mode). This makes the remote lookup about 10x faster when the remote package has not changed since the last install.
Using a GITHUB_PAT no longer prints diagnostic messages by default (r-lib/devtools#1752).
remotes now always uses https URLs for R versions that support them (@ankane, #139)
Do not include the BioCextra repository in versions after it was deprecated (R 3.5+, Bioc 3.6+).
install_()
functions now download tarballs (.tar.gz) files rather than zip
archives (.zip). This results in generally smaller files and avoids issues
with script permissions being lost and strange behavior of some external
unzip programs on Windows (#96).
Dependency parsing is now more robust to whitespace around the dependency specifications (#73).
standardise_dep()
exported, for use in devtools.
install_local()
now defaults to the current directory.
install_bitbucket()
now correctly supports authentication, and the
subdir
argument.
install_()
functions give a helpful warning when the package has long
path names, on Windows. In this case building the package usually fails.
(#84, #178).
install_()
functions have now a more robust way of handling various
tar programs on Windows (#172).
install_()
functions now give a helpful warning on older R versions,
on Windows, if R.home()
contains a space character. Installation
usually fails in this case.
GitHub API errors now give better error messages, including data about the API rate limits.
URL encode GitHub references, to allow installing from non-alphanumeric branch or tags, @krlmlr #38
Better cooperation with proxy servers, and better download method selection on Windows, @cderv, #45, #46
install_deps()
supports tar balls, #47
Allow training slash in GitHub repo specification, #54
Work around on some Linux systems, where unzip is set to the empty string, @HenrikBengtsson, #57
Check for circular dependencies while installing, #31
Updated BioConductor repo URLs for newer BioC versions
First public release.
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