<link rel="canonical" href="https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=..." />.New citation("ctv"): Zeileis A, Bivand R, Eddelbuettel D, Hornik K, Vialaneix N (2023).
"CRAN Task Views: The Next Generation." arXiv 2305.17573, arXiv.org E-Print Archive.
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2305.17573.
For CRAN web pages produce <span class="...">pkgname</pkg> for packages on
CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub, R-Forge, OmegaHat, etc., where the custom classes
yield custom colors in the CRAN style.
Updated Bioconductor URLs from bioc("<pkgname>") tags to
https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/<pkgname>.
Improved and extended documentation for CRAN task view maintainers in
vignette("ctv-howto", package = "ctv").
CRAN information about packages and archivals is loaded from local files
(rather than downloaded) if run on CRAN. Also, it is preserved between subsequent
runs of read.ctv(..., cran = TRUE) (and hence also ctv2html(..., cran = TRUE)
etc.).
read.ctv(..., cran = TRUE) now warns if a pkg() is not available from CRAN.
Add Facebook OpenGraph and Twitter tags in task view HTML pages.
New convenience function ctv() that obtains a single ctv object
with information about a certain task view on CRAN with a given name.
New list element $citation in ctv objects containing a citation object
inheriting from bibentry with information on how to cite a task view.
The auxiliary view() function gained a second argument so that specific
sections in other task views can be referenced, e.g.,
view("Econometrics", "Instrumental variables").
Fix typo in task view header it should be install.views() and update.views()
rather than install.packages() and update.packages().
Fix detection of "core" packages if the priority is not declared in the
first pkg() call but in subsequent calls.
Improve HTML5 output from ctv2html().
Enhance handling of archived packages on CRAN when read.ctv(..., cran = TRUE)
and ctv2html(..., cran = TRUE).
Further improvements in ctv2html(): Generate HTML5 with pandoc now, improve
preservation of link breaks (--wrap=preserve).
Bug fix in read.ctv() when pkg(..., priority = "core") is used more than
once on the same package name (reported by Rocio Joo).
Sorting the package list is done ignoring the case now.
Various improvements in ctv2html(): Include explicit citation in header table,
include instructions for contributions and installation (if cran = TRUE), more
compact layout of package list, handle task views without links section correctly.
Bug fix in read.ctv(file) when file is actually a full path and not just
the name of file in the local working directory.
Make all examples of read.ctv() conditional on knitr and rmarkdown
being available (or xml2 being available in case of the legacy XML format).
Various substantial changes to support the launch of the
CRAN Task View Initiative:
Development and maintenance of CRAN task views will be overseen by a team
of CRAN Task View Editors who review and approve new task views and help
maintainers with onbaording. Infrastructure for this is moved from R-Forge
to GitHub (with only the maintenance of the ctv package remaining on R-Forge).
The file format for task view files changes from the old XML-based format
to a new leaner R-Markdown based format.
For the R package ctv itself there is now a pkgdown web page at:
https://ctv.R-Forge.R-project.org/.
The vignette("ctv-howto", package = "ctv") has been completely rewritten,
now describing the new R/Markdown-based format. (The vignette itself is now
in HTML rather than in PDF format.)
For processing the legacy XML-based files the xml2 package is used now
(instead of the XML package).
Added <doi> tag in the legacy XML format to add hyperlinks to DOIs, e.g.,
<doi>10.18637/jss.v067.i01</doi> will be turned into
https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v067.i01.
The <gcode> tag now explicitly resolves to https://code.google.com/archive/
(including the archive/ part) as Google Code has been archived in 2016.
<github> tag can now be used to refer to projects on GitHub using markup like
<github>user/project</github>.
To support older versions of R (up to R 3.4.3), the server-side tools now
explicitly use saveRDS(..., version = 2) to store task view information.
<ohat> packages are now at Omegahat.net rather than Omegahat.org.<url> that can be used to display an official
task view URL (and insert it into the metainformation tags). For CRAN task
views the official URL is used by default.check_ctv_packages(): Packages in <packagelist> but not in
<info> were not computed correctly.<br/> tags are preserved as such in the <info> section.system.file() instead of .find.package() in vignette.system.file() instead of .find.package() in ?read.ctv.check_ctv_packages() for maintainers of CRAN task views.
This checks whether <info> and <packagelist> are consistent and whether
all packages are actually available in the repository.saveRDS()/readRDS() and not .saveRDS()/.readRDS().update.views() gains a filter argument passed to available.packages(),
so that the packages can be filtered with respect to operating system type or
free and open-source license etc.saveRDS() instead of .saveRDS() is now used in the server-side tools if
available.Avoid usage of ≪ in Cluster.ctv because it is not processed
correctly on all platforms
Further improvement to available.views() which now uses readRDS() if
available.
available.views() for R 2.13.0 as the underlying .readRDS() needed
to be changed.Added download.views() function (as suggested by Peter Ruckdeschel).
Restructured internals of install.views() and update.views() so that all
three functions can use the same code for determining the list of packages
that is going to be installed/updated/downloaded.
update.views() was updated reflecting that bundles are not supported
anymore.subset().useFancyQuotes = FALSE).grep(..., extended = FALSE) replaced by the more appropriate
grep(..., fixed = TRUE).<rforge> are now forced to be in lower case.In .ctv files a new tag is allowed: <ohat> for links to Omegahat projects.
The tags <rforge> and <gcode> replace the previous <forge> and
<googlecode>, respectively, in order to be more consistent with the
terminology used in the CRAN Web pages.
Further improvements of server-side tools in order to provide tidy XHTML code.
The default style file included in the server-side tools is now CRAN_web.css
(rather than R.css).
read.ctv() and ctv2html() now try harder to
provide tidy XHTML code.CITATION file.<googlecode> tag.\itemize in .Rd files for new R-devel.install.views() and update.views(): Argument
dependencies = TRUE has been removed (but can still be specified through
...). Hence, by default, the defaults of install.packages() are inherited.
However, it is still possible to get the prior behaviour by setting
dependencies explicitly in install.views()/update.views().<bioc> tag,
similar to <forge>).<code> and <forge> for CTV files.New function update.views() which only installs the packages from a view that are not installed or not up-to-date.
Added infrastructure for view version/date and contact e-mail address of the maintainer.
Adapted the server-side tools to the new web-structure of CRAN.