###################################################################### # News: to package startupmsg ###################################################################### ############## v 0.9.6 ############## user-visible CHANGES: + DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision ############## v 0.9 ############## user-visible CHANGES: + title changed to title style / capitalization GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS: under the hood: added .Rbuildignore BUGFIXES: ############## v 0.8 ############## under the hood: + startupmsg gains a namespace + added DESCRIPTION tag "ByteCompile" to all our packages + updating maintainer email address and URL. + deleted no longer needed chm folders ############## v 0.7 ############## user-visible CHANGES: + new command TOBEDONE() --- similarly to NEWS() to access TOBEDONE file GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS: + added tests/Examples folder with file startupmsg-Ex.Rout.save to have some automatic testing + added field "Encoding: latin1" to all DESCRIPTION files in order to avoid problems with e.g. Windows locale when svn replaces $LastChangedDate + added TOBEDONE (sic!) files for each package (by accident also in trunc; these are empty so far) ############## v 0.6 ############## * Rd-style: + several buglets detected with the fuzzier checking mechanism cf [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25) [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe? , Prof Brian Ripley, ############## v 0.5.3 ############## * new issuer 'mySMHandler' to cope with long package names and variable "paper" widths acc. to getOption("width") (automatically inserts line breaks...) * moved license to LGPL-3 ############## v 0.5 ############## * startup messages are now also of S3-class 'packageStartupMessage' and hence may now also be suppressed by suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base') ############## v 0.4 ############## * deleted: import "methods" from Namespace * included: argument "VIGNETTE" in function "buildStartupMessage" ############## v 0.3 ############## * inserted references to the mail thread "Wishlist: 'quietly' argument for .onAttach() / .First.lib()" on r-devel, April 2006 into seealso ############## v 0.2 ############## * abolished: S3 class StartupVersionMessage with corresponding constructor * abolished: call startupVersionMessage * abolished: control for linestarter (anyone could do this himself: + the developper using his own SMHandler + the user by specifying a suitable custom restart * abolished: wrapper onlyversionStartupMessages * abolished: modified output in startMessage * instead: extended S3 class StartupMessage by a slot 'type' with corresponding accessor startupType * instead: onlytypeStartupMessages with an atypes argument to filter out types that are to be shown * instead: introduction of mystartMessage with a * instead: startMessage now comes with a type argument * instead/new: SMHandler argument for mystartupMessage and buildStartupMessage defaulting to mySMHandler * clarified: code to buildStartupMessage * new: separation into "general routines" documented in ?"startmsg" and an illustration covering mystartupMessage and buildStartupMessage documented in ?"mystartupMessage" * new: custom restart (idea: Seth Falcon) ############## v 0.1 ############## * defined S3 classes StartupMessage, StartupVersionMessage with corresponding constructors * accessor startupPackage * wrappers suppressStartupMessages, onlyversionStartupMessages * calls startupMessage, startupVersionMessage * utilities readVersionInformation, readURLInformation, pointertoNEWS, infoShow, NEWS * main function buildStartupMessage (also controllable by options "StartupBanner" resp. "StartupLinestarter")