[rkward-devel] New breaking R2HTML release

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

I've gone ahead and uploaded R2HTML version 2.3.0 to CRAN. Feel free to
report any breakage you may observe.


Regards


Le mercredi 27 août 2014 à 19:35 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :
> Dear maintainers of R packages depending on R2HTML,
> 
> We (the RKWard team and I) recently took over the maintainership of the
> R2HTML package in order to prevent it from being archived on CRAN. To
> this goal, we had to make a few (limited) breaking changes, which might
> require your packages to be slightly adapted once it is uploaded to
> CRAN. It is likely, though, that no change will be required at all.
> 
> For the record, packages depending on or suggesting R2HTML are:
> affycoretools, AffyExpress, affylmGUI, Agreement, ArrayExpressHTS,
> ArrayTools, ascii, clusterSim, DMRforPairs, EpiContactTrace, FFD,
> HTMLUtils, limmaGUI, maigesPack, PKtools, psytabs, pubmed.mineR,
> questionr, R453Plus1Toolbox, RcmdrPlugin.EACSPIR, RcmdrPlugin.temis,
> RenextGUI, rgrs, rHVDM, STAR, SwimR
> 
> The list of breaking changes and of replacement solutions is short:
> - .HTML.file is no longer stored in the global environment:
>   use HTMLSetFile() and HTMLGetFile() instead of modifying it directly.
> - .HTMLenv is no longer stored in the global environment:
>   it should never have been accessed directly in the first place.
> - fix() is no longer replaced during HTMLStart()/HTMLStop() sessions.
> - Remove obsolete handling of 'date' class from package survival.
> - Remove obsolete support for old format of objects from the rpart
> package.
> 
> I have run R CMD check on most of your packages with the new R2HTML
> version, and I found no problems. But please have a look, at least to
> check whether you find any occurrences of ".HTML.file", which is likely
> the most used of the features above. The new version can be found at
> https://github.com/nalimilan/R2HTML
> and you can install it easily using the devtools package, by the command
> devtools::install_github("R2HTML", "nalimilan")
> 
> Any more general testing of R2HTML's feature is also welcome, as we are
> not familiar with R2HTML and something might have been broken by
> mistake.
> 
> I will wait for about ten days, and if nobody reports a problem I will
> proceed and upload the new 2.3 version to CRAN. If you experience any
> issue, please contact me and I'll delay the release.
> 
> 
> Regards