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pkgload 1.0.2

• load_all() gains a compile argument which controls more finely whether to compile the code or not. The recompile argument is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of pkgload.

pkgload 1.0.1

• unload() now only removes S4 classes which were generated in the package being unloaded (#75)

• help() will no longer error when trying to load package level help (#67).

• Trailing slashes now removed from all paths, which fixes issues on Windows (#73).

• load_dll() now fixed in R-devel (#77).

• The help shim's now work for ::: inputs (#72).

pkgload 1.0.0

• load_all() now updates imports of dependent packages when a package is reloaded (#59).

• load_all() now assigns DESCRIPTION/Depends to .Depends object of package environment. (@yiufung pkgload#61)

• load_all() now attaches testthat if the attach_testthat option is TRUE. This allows load_all() to more closely mimic the testing environment. (#56)

• check_dep_version() and check_suggested() are now exported.

• check_dep_version() now emits a warning and returns FALSE rather than aborting. (#47)

• Package imports are now exported when using load_all(). This behavior can be disabled by using load_all(export_imports = FALSE).

• The as.package() and is.package() functions have been removed.

• load_code(), load_data(), load_dll(), load_all(), parse_ns_file() all now take an explicit path rather than a path or a package object.

• imports_env(), ns_env(), pkg_env() and unload() now take a package name rather than a path or a package object.

• run_example() now works on R 3.1.

• unload() now unloads S4 classes for packages loaded with library() as well as load_all() (#46).

• load_all() gains a helpers option to specify whether or not to source testthat helpers. (@pitakakariki devtools #1202)

• load_all() now sources the testthat helpers in the namespace environment rather than the package environment (#40).

• load_all() now sets the NOT_CRAN environment variable when it sources testthat helpers. It also sets DEVTOOLS_LOAD to "true" so that you can check whether they are run during package loading.

• dev_topic_path() now only returns the last path found, fixing an error when a package has both a package function level help with the same name. (#21)

• New function is_dev_package() to determine if a given package has been loaded by pkgload::load_all() (#2).

• load_all() no longer updates the collate directive. Instead this functionality has been moved to devtools::document().

• dev_help() now optionally takes a character vector of packages to search within. This replaces find_topic().

• dev_topic_index_reset() is now exported, and allows you to reset the topic index associated with a given package.

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

• Initial release from code spun off from devtools

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