remotes 2.5.0

• install_github() now uses credentials from the git
  credential store, if GITHUB_PAT and GITHUB_TOKEN are not set.
• The Remotes field in DESCRIPTION now accepts explicit package names:
  <pkgname>=<type>::<username>/<repo> (#719, @heavywatal).
• dev_package_deps() now works for packages with Enhances dependencies
  (#711, @maksymiuks).
• install_dev() now ignores a trailing slash (#692, @krlmlr).
• System requirements now support Ubuntu 22.04.
• local_package_deps() now errors for non-existent directories
  (#772, @MatthieuStigler).

remotes 2.4.2

• Gábor Csárdi is now the maintainer.
• bioc_version() now points to the most recent (2021-10-27) Bioconductor
  release, v3.14 (@stufield, #664).
• Fix regex to handle user names in URL in git_remote, add regression tests (@achimgaedke, #646).

remotes 2.4.1

• pkgbuild is no longer accidentally loaded even in standalone mode (#548)
• The internal GitHub token used to increase rate limits has been regenerated.
• Using remote_package_name.git2r_remote now passes credentials when looking up the package DESCRIPTION (#633, @rnorberg)
• Using remote_package_name.git2r_remote and remote_package_name.xgit_remote, http responses returning an invalid DESCRIPTION or that redirect to another page will now fallback to return NA instead of throwing an error when trying to parse the unexpected content (#628, @dgkf).
• Fix regex that breaks git protocol in git_remote (@niheaven #630).
• Clarify github_pull() documentation (@ms609 #640).

remotes 2.4.0

• Re-license as MIT. (#551)

• skip tests for download.file(method = "internal"), on R > 4.1, since that method is now defunct on those versions.

• system_requirements() now works as intended if only the os argument is used (@mdneuzerling, #609)

• remote_package_name.git2r_remote and remote_package_name.xgit_remote now get correct package name from HTTP(S) git repo's DESCRIPTION file, and thus package's DESCRIPTION file's Remotes field could have git::http(s)://<host>/<username>/<repo>[.git][@ref] items that install remote packages using git via HTTP(S) protocal (@niheaven, #603).

remotes 2.3.0

Major changes

• install_*() functions will no longer fail by default if there warnings from install.packages(). Concretely the default value of R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS has changed to true from the previous value of false. (#403)

Minor improvements and fixes

• install_bioc() now respects the environment variable R_BIOC_VERSION, and will use the git branch corresponding to this Bioconductor version (@bbimber, #580).

• remotes without package names are now unconditionally installed (#532, @jakubkovac)

• It is now possible to specify a custom host for dependencies listed in the DESCRIPTION file with Remotes: <type>[@host]::<username>/<repo>[@ref]. The ref now supports / in it for GitLab repositories as it did for GitHubrepositories. (@dagola, #448)

• Internal package2remote() function now supports local remotes created by pak.

• github_pat() will now check if GITHUB_TOKEN is set if it cannot find GITHUB_PAT. (@coatless)

• system_requirements() now supports querying released packages as well as development dependencies (#545)

• system_requirements() now supports OS name + version in the os argument (#549, @krlmlr).

remotes 2.2.0

New functions and features

• New system_requirements() function to query the Public RStudio Package Manager for system requirements for a package (and its dependencies)

• Remotes functions can now install dependencies from additional DESCRIPTION fields, e.g. passing dependencies = "Config/Needs/website" will install the dependencies listed in the Config/Needs/website: field in the package's DESCRIPTION.
  Prefixing fields with Config/Needs allows them to pass R CMD check without a NOTE, so it is the recommended format for these extra dependencies.

• install_*() family of functions now use the default branch in the repository, not the master branch (@MyKo101,#508).

Minor improvements and fixes

• Internal functions remote_download(), remote_metadata(), remote_package_name() and remote_sha() are now exported, so 3rd party packages could provide methods for new remote types (#509, #56)

• Internal functions add_metadata(), github_remote() are now exported. They are mainly for 3rd party extensions and should not be used by most users (#485).

• install_version() now keeps searching subsequent repositories for the requested version, rather than failing if the version it finds in an early repository is unsuitable. (#305, @kenahoo)

• install_version() now understands specifications like '>= 1.0' or '>= 1.12.0, < 1.14' to install the first version of the package it can find that satisfies the criteria. (#305, @kenahoo)

• install_version() now avoids use of base::url(), as prior to R 3.6.2 it had a bug when downloading large files (#463)

• parse_submodules() internal regular expression is now PCRE 2 compatible (#502, @jan-glx)

• update_packages() argument force has been deprecated and no longer has any effect (#521)

• Another fix for the mixed binary and source dependency issue, it should hopefully be fully squashed now (#296)

• The upgrade menu is now interruptible in RStudio (#489).

• Internal GitHub functions now correctly handle cases when characters are not representable in the default locale, but are representable in UTF-8 (#492).

remotes 2.1.1

Minor improvements and fixes

• Installing mixed binary and source dependencies when the latest versions of
  some packages do not have binaries yet should now install dependencies in the
  correct order to prevent load failures (#296)

• github_error() now also works when a GitHub (Enterprise) server does not
  return information about the rate limit (@dpprdan, #396, #413).

• install_gitlab passes the quiet argument on to gitlab_pat (@MichaelChirico, #437)

• remotes is now resilient against installed packages that declare
  RemoteType: standard but do not include a RemoteRepos or RemotePkgType
  field. In such a case, the values for getOption("repos") and
  getOption("pkgType") will be used (respectively).

• install_gitlab() now installs from repositories in subgroups and with dots
  in their name. subdir is now an explicit argument instead of implicit in
  repo (@robertdj, #259, #420).

• install() now passes the ellipsis ... to install_deps() (@Neil-Schneider, #411)

• The tests have been updated to work with newer versions of callr and R 4.0

remotes 2.1.0

New features

• install_*() functions gain build_manual and build_vignette arguments
  that previously existed in devtools versions < 2.0 (#353).

• The interactive menu has been modified to provide more clear instructions on
  the skipping behavior (#207)

• Credentials are now passed via HTTP headers, to reduce exposure when requests
  fail (#391).

Minor improvements and fixes

• download() with the external curl download method now always uses -L to
  follow redirects. (#350)

• update_packages() now has a more informative error message when the update
  fails (#223, #232)

• install_git() now can take credentials from the global option
  remotes.git_credentials (#378).

• install_git() now works with SHA references and external git (#389).

• GitHub remotes that point to branches no longer fail when the branch is later
  deleted (#274).

• Local remotes whose original location has been moved will no longer error
  when updating (#370).

• update_deps() no longer sorts the dependencies alphabetically (#296, #301)

• github_resolve_ref() now takes a host parameter (#284)

• Remotes specific environment variables now accept 0 and 1 as valid values (#238)

• remotes now uses locking by default when installing binary packages, which avoids
  issues when installing binaries that are already open in other R processes
  (#368)

• update_deps() no longer fails if a local package no longer exists (#289)

• install_version() now errors with a more informative message when type is
  not 'source' (#323)

• Bioc remote_sha() now always returns a character result (#379)

• Fix API call for private repositories in install_gitlab
  (@aornugent, #359, #363)

• git submodules now work if the submodule file is empty (@muschellij2, #234)

• install_gitlab() no longer adds the access token twice to the request
  (@aornugent, #363).

• Bitbucket dependencies now actually use the BITBUCKET_USER and
  BITBUCKET_PASSWORD environment variables (@antoine-sachet, #347).

• parse_deps() now ignores trailing whitespaces around comparison operators
  in DESCRIPTION fields (@LiNk-NY, #366)

remotes v2.0.4

• update.package_dependencies() now uses the pkg_type for the cran remote
  rather than a global type attribute, fixing errors when this global attribute
  is lost (#291, #304).

• Credentials are no longer passed to dependencies, as this breaks dependencies
  which use different credentials or hosts. If you have relied on this behavior
  a more robust way to provide the credentials is using the appropriate
  environment variables, e.g. GITHUB_PAT, BITBUCKET_USER etc.
  (@antoine-sachet, #345).

• The hash of bitbucket hosts is now correctly retrieved (@antoine-sachet, #344)

• Fix parsing of Additional_Repositories which have a leading newline
  (@tmelliott, #251).

remotes v2.0.3

• The order of choices for upgrade = "ask" now puts the stable ones 'All',
  'CRAN only', 'none' first, so they always have the same numbers (#287).

• update_submodules() now works with empty .gitmodules files (@jsilve24, #329).

• remotes now understands the "standard" remote type, as produced by packages
  installed from CRAN using pak (#309)

• Fix return type of install_remote() when there is a circular dependency (#225)

• remote_package_name.github_remote() now works properly on Windows (#248)

• install_bioc() repositories now updated for the Bioconductor 3.8 release.
  (#239)

• install_* functions now set the R_LIBS* environment variables for
  child processes correctly on Windows (@HenrikBengtsson, #253)

• install_* functions now support the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE environment
  variable, to set the default for the upgrade argument. See README for
  details (@kevinushey, #240).

• install_* functions perform basic HTTP authentication using HTTP
  headers now. This fixes an issue with install_bitbucket() and private
  repos (#255).

• install_* functions now respect the download.file.method option,
  if download_file() is used for HTTP.

• install_* functions now use the libcurl method, if the
  download.file.method option is not set to a different one, and libcurl
  is available. Before, the wininet method was preferred on Windows.
  If you rely on the proxy configuration of wininet, then you might
  want to set the download.file.method option, or use another way to
  set up proxies, see ?download.file.

• Remotes without package names are now unconditionally installed (#246).

• install_github() now includes a more informative error message when the
  status code is 404, asking the user to check that they have spelled the
  repo owner and repo correctly (included in the error message), and that
  they have the required permissions to access the repository.

• install_* fuctions (via the underlying private install function) now set
  RGL_USE_NULL="TRUE" in order to avoid errors when running headless
  and installing any package using rgl (@jefferis, ##333)