box 1.2.0

Breaking changes

• Deprecation warning: in the next major version, ‘box’ will read the environment variable R_BOX_PATH only once, at package load time. Modifying its value afterwards will have no effect, unless the package is unloaded and reloaded.
• ‘box’ no longer supports R 3.5 since the R build infrastructure (in particular ‘devtools’) no longer supports it.

Bug fixes

• Fix backports definitions so that they work in binary packages that were created using newer R versions (#347).
• Replace call to function that was added in R 4.0.0 to make package work again in R 3.6.3 (#335).

New and improved features

• Prevent accidental misuse by checking that arguments to box::file() and box::export() are unnamed (#334).
• The method argument of box::register_S3_method() is now optional (#305).

This version corresponds to version 1.2.0 on CRAN.

box 1.1.3

Bug fixes

• Silence warnings caused by an internal change of the R HTML help display functionality (#255, #278).
• Support loading modules inside RStudio even when ‘rstudioapi’ is not installed (#293).
• Do not crash in the presence of missing arguments in function calls inside modules (#266).
• Support trailing comma in in reexports via box::use() (#263).

New and improved features

• Add box::topenv() function, analogous to base::topenv() (#310).
• Support lazy loading data from packages (#219).
• Improve error messages for invalid box::use() declarations (#253).
• Add box::purge_cache() function to force reloading all modules (@kamilzyla, #236).

This version corresponds to version 1.1.3 on CRAN.

box 1.1.2

This release contains the vignettes that were missing from the previous CRAN release. It contains no other changes.

This version corresponds to version 1.1.2 on CRAN

box 1.1.1

This version contains no changes. It merely fixes a bug inside a unit test that triggered a CRAN check failure.

This version corresponds to version 1.1.1 on CRAN.

box 1.1.0

Breaking changes

• Modules without any @export declarations now export all visible names (= names not starting with a dot); to obtain the previous semantics of a module without exports, add a call to box::export() to the module source code.
• box::set_script_path now returns the full path previously set, as documented, not just its parent directory’s path. Existing code that relies on this function’s previously incorrect behaviour will need to be updated.

General

• Fix: work around broken isRunning function in Shiny ≥1.6.0 (#237)
• Fix: Return the full path from box::set_script_path, not just the parent directory’s path; box::script_path now also returns that path without requiring the user to set a new path (#239)
• Enhancement: More descriptive error messages when calling box::unload or box::reload with an invalid argument (#232)
• Enhancement: More descriptive error messages when a module cannot be found or when there’s a syntactic error in a box::use declaration
• Fix: Better detection of whether code is called from inside RStudio (#225)
• Fix: Work around R bug in path handling on non-Windows platforms when paths passed to the R binary contain spaces
• Enhancement: Support legacy modules (aka. R scripts) better by exporting all visible names (#207)
• Enhancement: Permit specifying exports via a function call instead of via @export declarations (#227)
• Fix: Make interactive HTML module help work on Windows (#223)
• Fix: Prevent segfault in R ≤ 3.6.1 caused by missing declaration of internal R symbol (#213)
• Fix: Allow exporting modules that were previously imported using a different prefix (#211)
• Enhancement: Add standard module for core R packages (#200)
• Enhancement: Warn when legacy functions are imported inside modules (#206)
• Fix: Reload dependent modules (#39, #165, #195)
• Enhancement: Support empty modules
• Fix: Don’t crash in the presence of nested, expanded functions inside modules (#203)

This version corresponds to version 1.1.0 on CRAN.

box 1.0.2

• Make box::help work with attached objects (#170)
• Allow trailing comma in attach list (#191)
• Make box::use(.) syntax work (#192)

This version corresponds to version 1.0.2 on CRAN.

box 1.0.1

• Enhancement: Allow trailing comma in box::use() (#172)
• Enhancement: Support loading local modules from open files in RStudio (#187)
• Enhancement: improve error message and performance for module environment name
  access via $ (#180)
• Enhancement: Add explicit support for ‘testthat’ (#188)
• Fix: Attach names starting with a dot (#186)

This version corresponds to version 1.0.1 on CRAN.

box 1.0.0

This is a complete rewrite of the package formerly known as ‘modules’. See the migration guide for more information.

This version corresponds to version 1.0.0 on CRAN.

version-0.9.11

Changes since last release:

• 0.9.11:
  • Fix script_path when R arguments contain certain valid patterns (#148)
  • Fix S3 modules on R 3.6.0 (#147)

version-0.9.10

Changes since last release:

• 0.9.10:

  • Fix incompatibility with roxygen2 v6.1.0

• 0.9.9:

  • Fix module_file argument check (#90)
  • Add clickable links to “See also” section in documentation (#56)
  • Fix a regression in the “basic-usage” vignette (#122)
  • Dispatch calls to `?` and help to devtools, if necessary (#34)
  • Run document twice to ensure S3 exports are correctly generated (#117,
    r-lib/devtools#1585)
  • Make Shiny runtime test more robust (#69)
  • Fix crash in S3 recognition when function bodies have been substituted at
    runtime (#125)