NEWS

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DataPackageR 0.16.1 (2024-09-17)

Minor user-facing improvements

• Suppress warning from project*_path() functions when file does not exist (#160)

Maintenance

• Remove dependency on crayon package, switch to cli package (#159)
• Remove invalid ORCID placeholder created by usethis that caused failing CRAN checks (#162)

DataPackageR 0.16.0 (2024-06-03)

Bug fixes

• Throw error if data object name is same as package name. Fixes (#62)
• Fix triplicate warnings when data version changes (#128)
• Fix bug where automatic updates to NEWS.md and the log file did not reflect the actual changes to data objects (#67)
  • The actual data packaging and versioning behavior was as intended, but now the NEWS.md and log file reflect that behavior
• Remove inconsistently auto-generated 'see also' links from package and data object help files

Significant user-facing changes

• document() now defaults to install = FALSE, like package_build() (#130)

Minor user-facing improvements

• Tweaks to PDF manual and vignette index titles
• Tweaks to spacing in console outputs and log file
• Suppress repetitive log file lines about updating NEWS.md
• Remove assertthat, devtools, stringr, and purrr from Imports
• Add pkgbuild and pkgload to Imports
• Move withr from Imports to Suggests
• Make some long-deprecated functions officially Defunct
  • dataVersion(), renamed years ago to data_version()
  • datapackage.skeleton(), renamed years ago to datapackage_skeleton()
  • keepDataObjects()
• Keep existing DataPackageR_verbose option if set outside of package

Internal improvements

• Refactor and split up internal omnibus function DataPackageR()
  • New internal functions
    • do_doc()
    • do_digests()
    • validate_pkg_name()
    • validate_package_skeleton()
    • validate_DataVersion()
    • validate_description()
    • validate_yml()
    • get_yml_objects()
    • get_yml_r_files()
  • Deleted internal functions
    • read.description(), now uses desc::desc()
    • read_pkg_description(), now uses desc::desc()
    • comment(), now uses roxygen2::parse_file()
  • Simplify internal functions
    • .increment_data_version()
    • .digest_data_env()
    • .save_data()
    • .doc_parse()
    • .check_dataversion_string()
  • Use base R compareVersion() and class package_version to simplify code involving the DataVersion and do additional sanity checks
• Miscellaneous cleanup and maintenance
• Make unit tests more independent from each other

DataPackageR 0.15.9 (2024-04-17)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug where .Rprofile options setting for DataPackageR_interact was overwritten upon package load
• Fix bugs where document() and package_build() left the data package attached
• Fix unit test inter-dependencies
• Make package template depend on R >= 3.5.0, suppressing .rda serialization warnings upon install
• Close a file connection, suppressing warnings about orphaned connections
• Fix broken test that led to archiving on CRAN
• Fix package documentation method for data packages and DataPackageR itself (r-lib/roxygen2#1491)

Minor improvements

• Various maintenance tweaks
• Documentation improvements
• Update maintainer and contact info
• New global option DataPackageR_verbose to suppress console output, e.g. during unit testing

DataPackageR 0.15.8 (2021-03-17)

• Fix to datapackager_object_read that was causing a test to break. get needs to have inherits=FALSE.
• Other fixes for usethis 1.6.0
• Fixes to tests that were failing on CRAN
• In package_build, remove devtools::reload and put devtools::unload and in front of install.packages
• in document, remove devtools::reload and put in devtools::unload and install.packages

DataPackageR 0.15.7 (2019-03-30)

• Fix test and vignette bugs related to upcoming version of usethis (1.5)

DataPackageR 0.15.6 (2019-03-13)

• Fix bug in vignette and code that writes to user space during CRAN checks.

DataPackageR 0.15.4.900

• Fix a bug in update_news.
• Create news files if it doesn't exist.

DataPackageR 0.15.4 (2018-10-24)

• New CRAN Release

DataPackageR 0.15.3.9000

Features and enhancements

• Reduce the console output from logging. (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/50)
• Create a new logger that logs at different thresholds to console and to file (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/50)
• Default on build is not to install.
• Hide console output from Rmd render.
• Nicer messages describing data sets that are created (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/51)
• Write deleted, changed, and added data objects to the NEWS file automatically.
• Add option to overwrite (or not) via use_processing_script. Provide warning.
• Add use_ignore() to ignore files and data sets in .Rbuildignore and .gitignore and added ignore argument to use_raw_dataset().

Bug fixes

• code argument no longer required for construct_yml_config
• Fix the documentation for datapackager_object_read() and "Migrating old packages".
• Copy over vignettes generated as pdfs into the package inst/doc
• Data objects are incrementally stored during the build process, into the render_root directory specified in the datapackager.yml config file.

DataPackageR 0.15.3 (2018-08-23)

• conditional tests when pandoc is missing (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/46)
• add use_data_object and use_processing_script (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/44)
• allow datapackage_skeleton to be called without files or data objects for interactive construction. (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/44)

DataPackageR 0.15.2 (2018-08-17)

• Add pandoc to SystemRequirements (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/46)
• Add use_raw_dataset() method (and tests) to add data sets to inst/extdata. interactively. (ropensci/DataPackageR/issues/44)

DataPackageR 0.15.1.9000

• Development version

DataPackageR 0.15.1 (2018-08-16)

• Fix CRAN notes.

DataPackageR 0.15.0

• Prepare for CRAN submission.

DataPackageR 0.14.9

• Moving towards rOpenSci compliance
• NEWS.md updated with description of changes to data sets when version is bumped (or new package is created).
• Output of "next steps" for user when package is built
• New document() function to rebuild docs from documentation.R in data-raw without rebuilding the whole package.
• Improved package test.
• R scripts processed properly into vignettes.
• Packages installed and loaded after build to make vignettes and data sets accessible in same R session.

DataPackageR 0.13.6

• Added a NEWS file.
• Cleaned up the examples.
• Snake case for all exported functions.

DataPackageR 0.13.3

• Added the render_root property to the YAML configuration. Specifies where render() processing is done, instead of the data-raw directory.