NEWS.md
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rcmdcheck (development version)

Fixed an issue where check output could be malformed when testing packages with multiple test files (#205, @kevinushey).
Update pkgdown template and move url to https://rcmdcheck.r-lib.org.

rcmdcheck 1.4.0

cran_check_results() now downloads results in parallel, so it is much faster.
rcmdcheck_process now redirects the standard error to the standard output, to make sure that they are correctly interleaved (#148).
rcmdcheck now puts Rtools on the PATH, via pkgbuild (#111).
rcmdcheck now builds the manual when building the package, if it is needed for \Sexpr{} expressions (#137).
This version fixes a rare race condition that made rcmdcheck fail (#139).
rcmdcheck now safeguards against R deleting the user's home directory via an R CMD build bug (#120).
rcmdcheck can now ignore files in inst/doc when building a package. See the Config/build/clean-inst-doc package option in ?"rcmdcheck-config" (#130).
It is now possible to turn on/off ANSI colors for rcmdcheck only, without affecting the checked package. See ?"rcmdcheck-config" and theRCMDCHECK_NUM_COLORSenvironment variable and thercmdcheck.num_colors` option (#119, @jimhester).
print.rcmdcheck() now has a test_output argument and rcmdcheck.test_output global option, to control whether to print the full test output or not. (#121)
RStudio's Pandoc is now on the path during rcmdcheck() and rcmdcheck_process (#109, #132, @dpprdan).
rcmdcheck() now errors if the check process crashes (#110, #163).
rcmdcheck() prints the check ouptut better interactively, especially when the package has multiple test files (#145, #161).
rcmdcheck can now ignore NOTEs, if requested, see ?rcmdcheck for details (#12, #160).
rcmdcheck now always converts its output to UTF-8 from the native encoding. It also handles parsing check output in a non-native encoding better (#152).
rcmdcheck now ignored time stamps when comparing two check results (#128).
rcmdcheck now does not print extra empty lines in the interactive output on GitHub Actions.
rcmdcheck now uses a more robust implementation to extract the session info from the check process (#164).

rcmdcheck 1.3.3

cran_check_results() has now a quiet argument, and the download progress bars are shown if it is set to FALSE (#17).
Fix output when standard output does not support \r, typically when it is not a terminal (#94).
Fix standard output and standard error mixup in the test cases, (#88, #96).
Fix parsing test failures when multiple architectures are checked, (#97).
rcmdcheck() has now better colors. WARNINGs are magenta, and NOTEs are blue (#103, @hadley).

rcmdcheck 1.3.2

rcmdcheck() now correctly overwrites existing tarballs if they already exist in the check directory. This time for real.

rcmdcheck 1.3.1

rcmdcheck() now correctly overwrites existing tarballs if they already exist in the check directory (#84 @jimhester).
rcmdcheck now uses sessioninfo::session_info() to query session information for the check.

rcmdcheck 1.3.0

New rcmdcheck_process class to run R CMD check in the background.
rcmdcheck() now supports timeouts (default is 10 minutes).
Checks now capture and print installation and test failures.
Checks now record and print the duration of the check.
Checks now record and print session information from the check session (#22).
rcmdcheck() new keep files until the returned check object is deleted, if check was run in a temporary directory (the default) (#23).
New xopen() to show the check file in a file browser window (#61).
Checks now save install.out and also DESCRIPTION in the result, and save the standard error and the exit status as well.
rcmdcheck() printing is now better: the message from the check that is actually being performed is shown on the screen.
rcmdcheck() now shows a spinner while running check.
rcmdcheck() results now have a summary() method for check comparisons.
rcmdcheck() results now have a new check_details() method, to query the check results programmatically. (No need to use $errors, $warnings, etc. directly.)
Checks now find package root automatically (#18).
rcmdcheck() now has an error_on argument to throw an error on an R CMD check failure (#51).
rcmdcheck() result printing is now better, the colors are consistent (#54).

rcmdcheck 1.2.1

Compare two check results with compare_checks or compare check results to CRAN with compare_to_cran.
The result object has more metadata: package name, version, R version and platform.
Refined printing of the result.
rcmdcheck() works on tarballs build via R CMD build now.
Parse R CMD check results: parse_check, parse_check_url.
Download and parse check results for CRAN packages.
Report errors during the build, typically vignette errors.
Use the callr package (https://github.com/r-lib/callr) for running R CMD commands.