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miniCRAN v0.2.11 (Release date: in development)

New features:

• None

Other changes:

• Use pkgdown to build documentation site
• Speed up unit testing by mocking internal functions

miniCRAN v0.2.10.9000

New features:

• NULL

Bug fixes:

• use cran.microsoft.com instead of mran.microsoft.com for MRAN url (#104)

Other improvements:

• NULL

miniCRAN v0.2.10 (Release date: 2017-10-21)

New features:

• Added package option minicran.mran which sets default preferred MRAN url (#72)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed 'Error in basename(prev)' when calling addPackage() (#99)

Other improvements:

• Fixed typos in vignettes (@ryanatanner PR#93 and PR#94)
• Added note on system requirements of curl and XML (#98)

Changed maintainer to [email protected] #103

miniCRAN v0.2.9 (Release date: 2017-07-20)

• The igraph now gets imported (previously it was a Suggests)
• Use tools::CRAN_package_db() to read package description on CRAN
• Extend test suite coverage

miniCRAN v0.2.8 (Release date: 2017-06-19)

• New function addLocalPackage() to add source or pre-built packages from a local directory (#23).
• Updates for R 3.4.0 on macOS (#82; PR #84; PR #86) @vnijs
• Improve documentation for pkgPath (#85)
• Fix bug in makeRepo() when creating repo with multiple package types

miniCRAN v0.2-7 (Release date: 2016-08-19)

• Apply fix when using makeRepo() from a local miniCRAN. (#76)

miniCRAN v0.2-6 (Release date: 2016-06-26)

• Allow using makeRepo() to create a miniCRAN repo from an existing local miniCRAN, i.e., the repos contains file:/// prefix. This enables a use case in the AzureML package. (#76)
• Easily manage packages for all three Operating Systems (#24)
• Fix inconsistent use of Rversion in addPackage() (#42)

miniCRAN v0.2-5 (Release date: 2016-04-12)

• The function plot.pkgDepGraph() now displays legend only for edges that are actually in graph
• Make consistent use of Rversion argument (#42)

miniCRAN v0.2-4 (Release date: 2016-03-27)

• Changed copyright to Microsoft

miniCRAN v0.2-2 (Release date: 2015-03-25)

Changes:

• Additional vignettes and documentation

miniCRAN v0.2-0 (Release date: 2014-12-16)

License change:

• New licence: GPL-2 (changed from Apache 2)

New functionality:

• addPackage() to manage incremental package additions
• addOldPackage() to add (source version) of specific package version
• updatePackages() to check for and download package updates

miniCRAN v0.1-1 (Release date: 2014-10-01)

Changes:

miniCRAN v0.1-0 (Release date: 2014-09-16)

Changes:

• Updated documentation, vignette and examples
• Simplification of function arguments

miniCRAN v0.0-21 (Release date: 2014-08-18)

Changes:

• Changes to defaults in plot.pkgDepGraph() to move legend to left of plot area.

miniCRAN v0.0-20 (Release date: 2014-08-18)

Changes:

• Modified examples to reduce running time, mostly using \dontrun{} sections

miniCRAN v0.0-19 (Release date: 2014-08-17)

Changes:

• Changed license to Apache 2
• Small documentation improvements

miniCRAN v0.0-18 (Release date: 2014-08-14)

Changes:

• Added additional section in vignette to demonstrate makeRepo()
• Added additional examples

miniCRAN v0.0-17 (Release date: 2014-08-13)

Changes:

• Added function addPackageGithub() to read DESCRIPTION files for packages on github

miniCRAN v0.0-16 (Release date: 2014-07-23)

Minor changes to pass CRAN incoming checks. First version on CRAN.

miniCRAN v0.0-15 (Release date: 2014-07-23)

Changes:

• Added examples for plot.pkgDepGraph
• Added package vignette

miniCRAN v0.0-14 (Release date: 2014-07-22)

Changes:

• Additional control in arguments to plot.pkgDepGraph()

miniCRAN v0.0-13 (Release date: 2014-07-21)

Changes:

• Fixed more inconsistencies between pkgDep() and makeDepGraph()

miniCRAN v0.0-12 (Release date: 2014-07-16)

Changes:

• Fixed inconsistencies between pkgDep() and makeDepGraph()

miniCRAN v0.0-11 (Release date: 2014-07-12)

Changes:

• Added plot method for makeDepGraph
• Removed dependency on igraph, now SUGGESTS igraph instead

miniCRAN v0.0-10 (Release date: 2014-07-01)

Changes:

• General improvements and bug fixes.

miniCRAN v0.0-08 (Release date: 2014-06-05)

New functionality:

• New function makeLibrary() downloads files into a local library
• Function makeRepo() now creates a proper repository structure for source, win.binary, mac.binary, etc.

Changes:

• It is now possible to specify the argument enchances=TRUE in pgkDeps() to include packages that are enhanced.

Documentation changes:

• Added instructions and demonstration code for making a local repo in makeRepo(), including instructions for using the local repo.

miniCRAN v0.0-07 (Release date: 2014-05-28)

New functionality:

• New function getCranDescription() that scrapes information from the CRAN website for each package.

miniCRAN v0.0-06 (Release date: 2014-05-27)

New functionality:

• New function makeDepGraph() to create an igraph representation of the selected package dependencies
• New function makeRsyncInclude() to create include file for use with rsync (experimental)

miniCRAN v0.0-05 (Release date: 2014-05-22)

Enhancements:

• Enhanced error checking for pkgDep(), e.g. checking for non-existent top-level packages.
• Modified pkgDep() to selectively includes suggests dependencies
• Improved error messages
• New function pkgAvail(), a wrapper around available.packages()

miniCRAN v0.0-01 (Release date: 2014-01-30)

First commit.

New functionality:

• pkgDep()
• makeRepo()

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