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New version of devtools: 0.8

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Written by Hadley Wickham
2012-09-16

We’re pleased to announce a new version of devtools, the package that makes R package development easy. The main features in this version are:

  • A complete rewrite of the code loading system which simulates namespace loading much more accurately - this means using load_all is much closer to installing and loading the package. It also compiles and loads C, C++ and Fortran code in the src/ directory.

  • All devtools command now only take a path to a package and default to using the working directory if no path is supplied.

  • All R commands are run in --vanilla mode and print the console command that’s run.

  • Install github now allows you to install from pull request and private repositories.

Plus much, much more - for a complete list of changes, see the NEWS on github. If you’re interested in package development with devtools you may also want to join the rdevtools mailing list.

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Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science.

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