drat 0.0.4: Yet more features and documentation

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A new version, now at 0.0.4, of the drat package arrived on CRAN yesterday. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages, and is finding increasing by other projects.

Version 0.0.4 brings both new code and more documentation:

  • support for binary repos on Windows and OS X thanks to Jan Schulz;
  • new (still raw) helper functions initRepo() to create a git-based repository, and pruneRepo() to remove older versions of packages;
  • the insertRepo() functions now uses tryCatch() around git commands (with thanks to Carl Boettiger);
  • when adding a file to a drat repo we ensure that the repo path does not contains spaces (with thank to Stefan Bache);
  • stress that file-based repos need a URL of the form file:/some/path with one colon but not two slashes (also thanks to Stefan Bache);
  • new Using Drat with Travis CI vignette thanks to Colin Gillespie;
  • new Drat FAQ vignette;
  • other fixes and extensions.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More detailed information is on the drat page.

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