<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.