MAINTENANCE.md

In r-lib/devtools: Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier

Current state

Devtools is generally stable, most of the active development has moved to sub-packages like remotes and usethis, and relatively little code lives in devtools itself.

Known outstanding issues

I don't know of any major outstanding issues in devtools itself.

Future directions

The package development cheatsheet likely needs a major overhaul to account for much more functionality in usethis and the current state of devtools. https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/2107

Should devtools be converted to use pak for installation, or should the installation commands be deprecated in devtools and users suggested to use pak directly?

R CMD check notes

devtools has some vintage tests around .Rnw vignettes. It's not clear if it makes sense to keep these, but I (jennybc) am not rushing to remove these tests. Since I inherited the maintainership of devtools, I have not pursued why 2 of these tests fail locally (they are skipped on GHA). However, today, I did sort it out and want to record what I did. In case it comes up in the future, this caused the necessary LaTeX package to be installed:

tinytex::parse_install(
  text = "! LaTeX Error: File `grfext.sty' not found."
)

r-lib/devtools documentation built on Feb. 17, 2024, 5:32 p.m.