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devtools 1.5

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Written by Hadley Wickham
2014-04-08

devtools 1.5 is now available on CRAN. It includes four new functions to make it easier to add useful infrastructure to packages:

  • add_test_infrastructure() will create testthat infrastructure when needed.

  • add_rstudio_project() adds an Rstudio project file to your package.

  • add_travis() adds a basic template for travis-ci.

  • add_build_ignore() makes it easy to add files to .Rbuildignore, escaping special characters as needed.

We’ve also bumped two dependencies: devtools now requires R 3.0.2 and roxygen2 3.0.0. We’ve also included many minor improvements and bug fixes, particularly for package installation. For example install_github() now prefers the safer github personal access token, and does a better job of installing the dependencies that you actually need. We also provide versions of help(), ? and system.file() that work with all packages, regardless of how they’re loaded. See a complete list of changes in the full release notes.

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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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