Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

svMisc 1.4.0

• The aka() function objects are now aka and function objects with print() and str() methods. A new argument url= allows to indicate an http(s) URL for the help page of the object.

• A function section() allows to document different sections in sets of objects.

svMisc 1.3.2

• First implementation of concise help pages for functions aliased with aka() (description + seealso + example).

svMisc 1.3.1

• Bug correction: print.rbenchmark() was not exported.

svMisc 1.3.0

• Function ._(x, code) is removed from here to be included into the {svFlow} package where it is more appropriate.

• Function hint() is renamed aka() (also known as) because the name is much more in line with what it does. alias() would have been an even better name, but there is already stats::alias() and we don’t want a conflict on this function.

• rbenchmark() provides R Benchmark version 2.6 without needing to source external code.

• Function cut_quantile() like cut(), but calculating breaks on quantiles in order to break down the vector into intervals of equal number of items.

• Function hint() added to attach information to an object (an “alias” to another object that has an help page, or a “comment” information to display about the object). The corresponding information and help page can be displayed with .?obj.

• Function ._(x, code) allows to use a concise syntax to pass a left-hand side argument to dot (.) into the right-hand side of a pipe operator, even if it does not support the dot itself (like the standard R pipe |> in R >= 4.1).

svMisc 1.2.32021-10-11

• Several examples set as because time to run all examples is too long on CRAN.

svMisc 1.2.2

• Link to a JSS paper replaced by the DOI link.

svMisc 1.2.1

• No more assignation (last.warning) into base environment: not permitted any more in R >= 4.1.0.

svMisc 1.2.0

• Two new functions pcloud() and pcloud_crypto() ease the management of files that are located in a p-Cloud drive (p-Cloud is a cloud storage system).

svMisc 1.1.42021-04-16

• Minor changes in the documentation to avoid notes in latest devel R CMD check.

svMisc 1.1.3

• .Traceback is not set any more in the base environment by capture_all() because CRAN policy does not allow it. The variable .Traceback_capture_all is set in temp_env() instead. It can be retrieved with get_temp(".Traceback_capture_all").

svMisc 1.1.2

• A new argument is added to completion(): name.or.addition= which determines if the function returns the completion name, completion additions or both. Thanks to @rhuffy.

svMisc 1.1.1

• News.md reworked in R CMD build-compatible format, and TODO reworked as TODO.md.

• ‘pkgdown’ site added.

svMisc 1.1.02018-06-30

• about() added and a special version of ? accepts .? as a shortcut to about(), but is otherwise, compatible with utils::?.

• subsettable functions for arguments type = or which = added.

svMisc 1.0.2

• captureAll() and parseText() were not exported anymore after switching help pages to Roxygen2. Fixed.

svMisc 1.0-12018-02-02

• This is a minor update to avoid 2 notes on CRAN R CMD check.

svMisc 1.0-0

• New, snake_case names of all the functions. Old camelCase functions names are kept for compatibility, e.g., captureAll() -> capture_all().

• All documentation converted to Roxygen2 format.

• Tests converted to testthat format.

• package() is reworked to record packages it cannot install, and the Install() function uses these automatically.

svMisc 0.9-73

_ New is_rstudio(), and is_rstudio_server() functions. Also, file_edit() detects if RStudio is used and get an internal buffer to edit a file by default in that case.

• Vignette added.

svMisc 0.9-72

• toRjson() adapted to be compatible with R >= 3.5.0 (thanks to Martin Maechler).

svMisc 0.9-71

• Switch to Github for development; CI added.

• Code added to make ‘svUnit’ tests compatibles with RStudio and devtools::test().

svMisc 0.9-702014-03-02

• Deprecated functions Args(), CallTip(), clipsource(), Complete(), CompletePlus(), getEnvironment(), Parse(), r(), Sys.tempdir(), Sys.userdir() are now defunct and eliminated from the package.

• Function pkg() is renamed package().

• Reworked code that was using :::.

svMisc 0.9-692013-03-18

• On MacOS >= 10.7, the package could not load because of a warning (converted into an error) in .onLoad(). Solved. (thanks Travis Porco for bug report).

• isHelp() now uses find.package() instead of the deprecated .find.package().

svMisc 0.9-682013-01-27

• The temporary environment that TempEnv() attaches to the search path is now called 'SciViews:TempEnv' instead of simply 'TempEnv' to avoid potential conflicts with other packages in CRAN.

svMisc 0.9-67

• Added the fileEdit() function.

• Reworked argsTip() function to eliminate old code (for R < 2.10).

• parseText() reported an error instead of NA in the case last string is incomplete in R 2.15.

svMisc 0.9-66

• Added function isJGR().

• Added batch processing function batch().

svMisc 0.9-652012-04-01

• Partial argument matching in completion(), progress() and rmTemp() code fixed.

• Call to .Internal(...) in captureAll() eliminated, but need to call .signalSimpleWarning() that is not intended for external use anyway.

• Call to .Internal(dput(....)) in toRjson() eliminated.

svMisc 0.9-64

• Added listToJson() for conversion of lists of character strings into correct JSON format.

• Added pkgManXXX() functions to run R code for the SciViews package manager.

svMisc 0.9-632011-09-04

• progress() used \8, that was treated as octal for R < 2.14. Changed to \b in order to correct this bug. Thanks Duncan Murdoch for pointing me on this.

svMisc 0.9-62

• captureAll() now handles user interrupts and allows for traceback() afterwards and default value for split= now changed to TRUE. The echo = argument allows for echoing expressions being evaluated, like in the usual R console, but a mechanism allows to abbreviate very long expressions.

• parseText() is reworked internally and it uses the srcfile/srcref mechanism introduced in R recently. firstline =, srcfilename = and encoding = arguments are added.

• Unit tests added (should run with both ‘svUnit’ (advised) and ‘RUnit’).

• A bug in objList() is corrected: if the list of objects in the environment is cleared, e.g., by rm(list = ls()), the function returned as if nothing was changed with compare = TRUE. Now, an attribute changed = is set to TRUE or FALSE to differentiate between “no changes” and “changes towards an empty environment”.

svMisc 0.9-612010-11-11

• Better handling of non syntactically correct names in objList().

svMisc 0.9-602010-09-27

• A couple of functions are renamed: Parse() -> parseText(), clipsource() -> sourceClipboard(). Old names are declared deprecated, and will become defunct before version 1.0-0 of the package.

• captureAll() now returns NA in case of incomplete line of code parsed by parseText(). It also detects if expr = is a valid language expression or is NA.

• isMac() was not working correctly on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard (bug corrected).

• Sys.userdir() did not expanded tilde in recent R versions (corrected).

• Little change in def() arguments: length.out = instead of length = to use the same name as corresponding argument in rep(). Coercion to logical is now done using as.logical()… the result may differ from previous implementations.

• For listTypes(), the convention has changed. Method/type is now separated by an underscore instead as with two dots (like in view_text.default).

• Sys.tempdir() and Sys.userdir() are deprecated in favor of the new more general functions systemFile() and systemDir().

• r() is deprecated in favor of pkg() (r() is not informative enough and more susceptible to be used elsewhere too).

• Args() is deprecated in favor of argsTip() and CallTip() is deprecated in favor of callTip() (further homogenization of svMisc function names). The new argsTip() and callTip() functions can reflow the tip to a given width, and callTip() can also return a short description of the function as well as the list of available methods if the tip os asked for a generic function.

• Complete() and CompletePlus() are deprecated in favor of a unique completion() function. Code of both original functions has been fused and reworked.

svMisc 0.9-59

• RJSON objects now use a customized list() function to build lists, but also structures and new S4 objects.

• captureAll() has now a split = argument that allows to output to the R console, while capturing output.

• Bug correction in captureAll(): call[[1L]] is not subsettable.

svMisc 0.9-58

• Additions of functions toRjson() and evalRjson() and specification of the RJSON (R-JavaScript Object Notation), an object exchange format not unlike JSON, but richer and more adapted to represent most R objects.

svMisc 0.9-572010-04-22

• Small changes to objList() (now look at objects in their correct environment).

• A bug in descArgs() with R >= 2.10 did not allowed to gest arguments description for functions using the ... argument. Thanks to Diego Zardetto for pointing this bug.

svMisc 0.9-562009-10-29

• Temporary code to disable index.search() in devel R 2.11 in isHelp() and descFun().

svMisc 0.9-55

• Implement descArgs() using the new help system (parse_Rd()), this eliminates the need for the workaround of version 0.9-54

svMisc 0.9-54

• Cosmetic changes in Rd files to make them compatible with R 2.11 (devel). A part of the example of CompletePlus() is eliminated because it raises an error.

svMisc 0.9-53

• Complete() now sorts items alphabetically and does not return completions as factor type in the data frame any more.

• CallTip() does a better work to find current function, i.e., not only after the opening parentheses (.

• Args() now do no place a space anymore between the name of a function and its arguments

svMisc 0.9-52

• Complete() now manages cases where code is like iris[, iris[[, or where last parsed token is empty (in this case, it returns the list of objects loaded in .GlobalEnv).

svMisc 0.9-51

• Complete() now includes additions from Complete2() and CompletePlus().

svMisc 0.9-50

• CompletePlus() removes the weird object names ( .__M__, …) which were causing trouble.

• CompletePlus() handles completions like a[m.

svMisc 0.9-49

• Complete2() is a temporary new version of Complete() for experiments.

svMisc 0.9-482009-06-28

• Parse() does not detect incomplete R code any more, fixed [PhG].

svMisc 0.9-47

• objList(), print.objectList() and write.objList() reworked [PhG].

svMisc 0.9-462009-01-23

• Added objList(), print() method for ‘objList’ objects and write.objList() [KB].

• Localization complete and French local file done.

svMisc 0.9-45

• Made backward compatible with R 2.6.0 (was R >= 2.7.0 in previous version).

• captureAll() is reworked by Kamil Barton [KB]. Debugging code eliminated (data saved in .GlobalEnv for debugging).

• Error handler added to captureAll() - [KB].

svMisc 0.9-44

• CompletePlus() reworked to use man pages instead of .Rd files.

• descFun() and descArgs() added.

svMisc 0.9-43

• CompletePlus() created to obtain information on the completion possibilities.

svMisc 0.9-42

• objList() did not place each item in a line when result is written in a file.

• objXXX() functions did not always returned results invisibly. Solved.

• Args() is more robust against bad name = parameter because it now calls argsAnywhere() within a try().

svMisc 0.9-41

• objInfo() returns also estimated size of objects that are not functions.

• objSearch() is reworked to return a single string using sep = as separator when sep = is not NULL.

svMisc 0.9-40

• This is the first version distributed on R-forge. It is completely refactored from older versions (on CRAN since 2003) to make it run with SciViews-K and Komodo Edit (Tinn-R is also supported, but not SciViews-R Console any more).