NEWS

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pacs 0.6.0 (2024-09-27)

• fix checked_packages as there is a new DOM structure.
• fix pac_deps_timemachine which not works in some cases.
• fix a problem with app_deps on R 3.6.
• add new functions: pac_news and pac_compare_news. Functions are NEWS file related.
• update the tinyverse vignette with new badge urls.
• improve code base.

pacs 0.5.1 (2023-08-18)

• due to instability issues with "crandb", the lifeduration and timemachine functions have been adjusted to fetch data directly from CRAN by default.
• protect against 400 results from crandb. Please use new options if needed options(pacs.crandb_ntry = 3) and options(pacs.crandb_nsleep = 0.1) to control crandb fetch. . Linked with https://github.com/r-hub/pkgsearch/issues/117#issuecomment-1651081139
• add informative messages when a web call failed.
• small improvements in the tinyverse vignette.

pacs 0.4.10 (2023-02-27)

• remove the not needed testthat log file.

pacs 0.4.9

• update all *_validate functions to treat the analyzed version as newest one if is bigger or equal to the newest CRAN, not only equal as before.
• improved quality of vignettes.
• add usage of the pacs::checked_packages function in README.

pacs 0.4.8 (2022-06-28)

• fix the "how-r-searches-and-finds-stuff" url.
• a new match_flavors function to get CRAN server names matched to local OS.
• improving docs.

pacs 0.4.6

• a new function pac_deps_heavy, the demand revealed during the useR 2022 Conference. The direct package dependencies and counts of dependencies for each of them. Help to identify heavy packages.
• small update of tinyverse vignette.
• fix the documentation, repos argument in 2 functions get part of base argument description.
• rm some of Suggests packages.

pacs 0.4.5 (2022-05-10)

• pac_deps_dev and pac_deps_user could be used for local packages now.
• a new optional lib_validate column inspired by Winston Chang, if the packages have a proper Built version.
• a poster vignette.

pacs 0.4.4 (2022-04-04)

• tinyverse vignette.
• fixed edge cases for pacs::pac_deps.
• fixed lock_validate, the condition for validating the maximum number of packages was taken from the library size not the lock file size.
• two new higher-level functions pacs::pac_deps_user and pacs::pac_deps_dev.
• renv transferred to Suggests, as used by only 2 functions.
• improved documentation.
• updated pkgdown website.

pacs 0.4.3 (2022-03-03)

• added an additional source for getting all releases of packages, the metacran db (new default).
• added a new validation function, lock_validate. It helps to validate a renv lock file.
• more efficient check of the Internet connection with the curl package.
• more elegant separation of the code.
• more testthat tests, mockery.

pacs 0.4.2 (2022-02-20)

• fix one of the validation of the lib_validate function.
• cache results with memoise for 30 minutes, not 1 hour.
• small README update.

pacs 0.4.1

• pacs::biocran_repos not includes the BioCbooks field for Bioc versions smaller than "3.12".
• improve pac_deps, NA versions for not installed packages.
• updated fields argument of thepac_deps function, now has the same shape as which argument in the tools::package_dependencies function.
• more tests, 90 percent coverage.
• More clear distinction when working without Internet.

pacs 0.4.0

• pac_deps fully depends on tools::package_dependencies.
• fix pac_deps problems when Suggests field is used, showed only installed packages.
• expose the dir_size function.
• add new functions app_size and app_deps.
• "getting started" vignette instead of the long README.
• get back functions reference table in the README.
• new Imports dependency, renv.

pacs 0.3.8

• fix testthat tests.
• skip an unstable test on CRAN, a new package could be installed on the server during the check is running.
• accepting "Enhances" field in all related functions.
• improve the code for reading html tables.
• updated README file.

pacs 0.3.7 (2022-02-13)

• fixed a bug for lib_validate when a custom library path is used.
• updated the default value of the lib.loc argument from NULL to .libPaths(), as it will be more suited when using withr package.
• updated README file.
• accepting "Enhances" field when checking dependencies.

pacs 0.3.6

• fix testthat tests to be more stable when dependency packages are updated.

pacs 0.3.5 (2021-09-13)

• Fixed pac_timemachine when from and to arguments are used and to is bigger than last Archived Date.
• pac_timemachine has a well ordered rownames now.
• Fixed pac_compare_namespace, how S3methods are handled.
• Fixed pac_health and related when the at argument is used and a package is installed locally.

pacs 0.3.4 (2021-09-06)

• pac_deps might show duplicated values if package was installed under a few different libPaths, now it is fixed.
• lib_validate will show packages which are required by DESCRIPTION file and not exist in installed.packages. This might occur when e.g. install.packages is corrupted. pac_validate already has such functionality.
• Update roxygen2 of pac_comapre_namespace as the note field wrongly suggested that it works only for exports.
• remove "packages versions" section from README file.
• pac_validate will return data.frame with additional column "direct", which will point the direct dependency from DESCRIPTION file.
• Improve testthat tests for pac_validate.
• Improve README file for lib_validate.

pacs 0.3.3 (2021-08-17)

• Partly support BioConductor.
• Default repositories mainly now consists of not only CRAN as BioConductor is considered too.
• Fix lib_validate as it not take into account statuses for not fully performed tests, it was case for less than 1% of all packages.
• Add note that checked_packages could return duplicated observations which is expected.
• Improve merge in lib_validate to show non-CRAN packages too.
• Rewrite some tests as some R CRAN servers might shut down.
• Polishing code of pac_lifeduration.

pacs 0.3.2 (2021-08-10)

• New CRAN release.
• Added \dontrun to most of examples as utils::installed.packages consumes 30 seconds on win-builder.

pacs 0.3.1

• Small docs improvements.
• Additional tests, maintain coverage over 80%.
• Additional input validation.
• Added xml2 to imports.
• Update README file.

pacs 0.3.0

• Added pac_checkpage and cran_flavors.
• Added flavors argument to functions checking packages statuses so only specific server might be considered.
• New checkred argument definition for validate family functions.
• Remove dontrun from lib_validate.
• Improving docs and descriptions.

pacs 0.2.10

• Using https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_package.html to efficiently check the CRAN check pages globally. As a result lib_validate is hugely more efficient when checkred argument is triggered.
• Remove mclapply README examples, add notes that parallel computations might be unstable.
• Remove parallel computation from pacs::lib_validate as might be unstable and is already optimized.
• Added checked_packages() to retrieve the html table from https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_package.html, all CRAN checks.
• Removed pac_comapre_exports and replace with more general pac_comapre_namespace.

pacs 0.2.9

• Fixed pac_lifeduration, not work for old packages which do not have UTC in published Date.
• Added optional FAIL status when checking CRAN check pages.
• checkred argument from lib_validate will expecting any values from c("ERROR", "FAIL", "WARN", "NOTE") vector.
• Default scope for pac_checkred will be c("ERROR", "FAIL").
• Improve pac_compare_versions, e.g. Default old version is the local one and the new one is the last release.
• Added pac_comapre_exports and pac_namespace.

pacs 0.2.8 (2021-07-31)

• Added pac_last to check the most recent package version.
• Added additional usage example pacs::pac_compare_versions in README file.
• CRAN version 0.2.8 .

pacs 0.2.7

• Removed all pacs functions, to give somebody the freedom of using different loop functions.
• Added a hint to use mclapply for non Windows users.
• Use vapply over the parallel::mclapply to be sure about the result length.
• Added additional as.Date so on older R versions binding is correct.

pacs 0.2.6

• Replace gregexec with a stringi function, as not supported on older R versions.
• Improved performance of lib_validate function, under default arguments and whole R CRAN library will consume 2 seconds.
• Update roxygen2 descriptions.
• Added lib.loc and repos arguments to more functions.
• mclapply under many functions.

pacs 0.2.5 (2021-07-29)

• Cache results only for 1 hour, could be important when run on servers.
• Add notice about caching results for 1 hour across all connected functions.
• Add additional description for validation function, result structure.
• Change the order in README file.
• Optional lifeduration and checkred for all validation functions.

pacs 0.2.4

• Polish descriptions.
• Deployment to R CRAN.
• Update NEWS file.

pacs 0.2.3

• Updated DESCRIPTION file description.
• Updated README file.
• Fixed pac_true_size with used exclude_joint argument, should not count checked package dependencies.
• Secured against duplicates in pac_compare_versions.
• Removed the "Description" column from a pac_timemachine result.
• Added the reverse argument for pac_deps which working for description versions too.
• Added the repos argument for pac_deps.
• Remove base argument in pac_true_size, as not see any value added.
• Add checkred variable for validation functions.
• pac_health for newest release younger than x days, checking if package is red labeled on CRAN checks pages.
• Default 14 days as limit for valid version, and non red check for the newest version.
• Added new functions pac_checkred/pacs_checkred.

pacs 0.2.2

• Fixed pac_deps when description_v = TRUE, minimal required versions were taken from all local DESCRIPTION files. This will fix pac_validate/pacs_validate too, which were to optimistic.

pacs 0.2.1

• Added https for all URL.

pacs 0.2.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added useful connected packages to Suggests.
• Added roxygen2 to all exported functions.
• Achieved 80% of coverage.
• Written a clear README file.
• Removed all Imports from the DESCRIPTION file.
• Added memoise dependency to reduce the number of web calls.
• Created a decent basket of pac/pacs prefix functions.
• Removed all \dontrun calls.