CRAN Release 0.3.3

✨ Highlights

• New fancyDirectoryInput – Upload entire directories in Shiny apps with streaming support for large folders and a built-in progress bar
• Cleaner dependencies – Removed magrittr, remotes, glue, base64url, and startup
• Better performance – Switched to Rcpp, improved lapply_async, and removed RcppParallel/TBB

🆕 New Features (since v0.2.3)

• fancyDirectoryInput – Directory upload widget with streaming & progress bar (v0.3.3)
• fancyFileInput – Styled file input with customized CSS (v0.2.8)
• is_from_namespace – Check if a function belongs to a namespace (v0.2.9)
• rs_set_repos – Set RStudio CRAN-like repository preferences (v0.2.4)
• maxSize argument for fancyFileInput and fancyDirectoryInput (v0.3.3)
• New baseline_array method for absolute contrast (v0.2.5)
• Keyboard shortcuts for debugging (v0.2.5, v0.2.7)

⚡ Performance & Architecture

• Removed RcppParallel/TBB in favor of TinyThread (v0.2.5)
• Switched to Rcpp to avoid internal API calls to ENCLOS/CLOSENV (v0.3.1–0.3.2)
• Improved lapply_async with automatic global variable size handling (v0.3.0)
• future::plan calls auto-cleaned by default (v0.3.1)
• rs_exec can now return as a promise object (v0.2.6)

🧹 Dependency Changes

• Removed: magrittr, remotes, glue, base64url, startup
• Re-exported: jsonlite, cli, rlang functions
• Using importFrom instead of importing entire shiny package

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed race condition (v0.3.3) – thanks @HenrikBengtsson
• Fixed bslib compatibility with customized Shiny components (v0.3.1)
• Fixed TinyThread memory leak (v0.2.5)
• Fixed fastmap2/fastqueue2 missing index errors (v0.2.6)
• Fixed lapply_async2 not respecting chunk size (v0.2.7)
• Fixed quantile2 protection imbalance (v0.2.9)
• get_ip no longer throws warnings (v0.3.1)

🔒 Security

• Multiple JavaScript library upgrades to address vulnerability issues

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Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.3.3

CRAN Release 0.2.3

See news.md for details.

Major Changes

• Added rstudioapi wrapper rs_edit_file to allow editing files directly in RStudio
• Added a special %OF% to make sure the result is constrained

Minor Changes

• parse_svec handles multiple lengths all together, and parse_svec(1:10) is equivalent to parse_svec("1:10")
• Allowed rs_exec to run nested. However, there is a risk of parent process ends before the nested child process finishes. In this case, parent temporary directory will be destroyed, and child process will become orphan (results will become unavailable)
• Replaced some functions from stringr to self-implemented base-R functions, plan to remove stringr in the future
• Create shiny_input_bindings list on package load

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "offset-parent" issue in compoundInput2 when max-height is unset, but overflow is still hidden for the select inputs
• Fixed print_directory_tree where an if condition generates warning for vectors with lengths greater than 1

CRAN Release 0.2.1

See news.md for details.

Major Changes

• Removed synchronicity package from dependency
• dipsaus_lock and dipsaus_unlock is exclusive-only and will be deprecated in the future
• PersistContainer is scheduled to be deprecated in the future
• Re-export detectCores and digest
• Added get_credential to generate strong passwords for different services using one single master password

Enhancement

• sync_shiny_inputs uses fastmap instead of environments
• sync_shiny_inputs uses the new bindEvent scheme to replace observeEvent
• Added sorted argument to as.list.fastmap2
• Ignored ... argument in as.list.fastqueue2
• rs_show_shortcut shows current shortcut expressions

Bug Fixes

• compoundInput2 now activates callback functions once using updateCompoundInput2
• Fixed get_ram not working on windows when user has no access to run wmic command
• Allow lapply_async progress bar to show in shiny applications (with backward compatibility)

CRAN Release 0.2.0

Bump from 0.1.6:

See news.md for details.

Major Changes

• Allow fastmap2 to as.list recursively
• Added mean_se to calculate mean and standard error of mean
• Re-exported digest from digest package
• Added combine_html_class and remove_html_class to manipulate HTML classes
• Force enabled ANSI color display for rs_exec when the jobs run in RStudio
• compoundInput2 now respects the par(fg) and sets foreground accordingly
• Added lapply_callr to replace async_workers with cleaner and more robust implementation
• Added as_pipe to make any functions to pipe-friendly
• Added rs_add_shortcut to allow customized shortcuts in RStudio
• Added missing_dots to detect if dots are missing values
• Added fastquantile to estimate single quantile, which is faster than base R
• Added RStudio shortcuts, allowing customized code from shortcuts
• Added shiny_alert2 that launches large alerts in shiny applications
• Added %<-?% to only assign when right-hand side expression is valid and not null
• Removed qs_map, redis_map
• Removed dependence qs, RcppRedis, htmltools
• Removed make_async_evaluator

Minor Changes

• Cleaned get_os so it does not depend on stringr anymore

Big Fixes

• Fixed progress2 not working properly in non-interactive sessions (but shiny is still running)
• Fixed missing_dots freezing the session when incorrectly called
• Fixed autoconf warnings
• Fixed a bug in lapply_async2 when failing to restore plan

CRAN Release 0.1.6

Bump from 0.0.9:

See news.md for details.

Major Changes from 0.0.9 to 0.1.6

• Added fastcov2 to calculate covariance in parallel
• Added sumsquared to calculate sum-squared faster
• Added sexp_type to obtain internal data type code
• Added function to convert base64 to its encoding characters
• Added a wrapper for fastmap::fastqueue (fastqueue2) that shows friendly messages and can query elements
• Removed function get_cpu as it's unstable
• Soft-deprecate lock and unlock functions
• Soft remove the experimental function make_async_evaluator to embrace the new restbatch package (experimental)
• Added make_forked_clusters to allow multicore future in RStudio in one function
• Added async_works to allow scheduling works in the background using multiple sessions.

Bug Fixes from 0.0.9 to 0.1.6

• Robust get_ram function. The function will return NA on Solaris, and actual memories in byte on other platforms.
• Fixed rs_focus_console not doing its job
• Fixed rs_exec when wait is true but not actually waiting
• Robust get_ram function. The function will return NA on Solaris, and actual memories in byte on other platforms.
• lapply_async2 now restores previous future strategy on exiting
• rs_exec now allows packages to be loaded before scripts

Enhancements from 0.0.9 to 0.1.6

• Updated JavaScript libraries to fix vulnerability issues
• Allow rs_exec to return to console after submitting jobs (RStudio version 1.4 required)
• Removed unused functions in README.md.
• make_forked_clusters allows to set a backup strategy once forked process fails (for example, on windows)
• Instead of showing "finished", progress bar now shows square box once finished for cleaner output
• Internally added attached_packages to detect attached packages

CRAN Release 0.0.9

Major Changes

• Added rstudioapi related functions. When running with 'RStudio', take advantages of 'RStudio' user interface; when running in console, or non-interactive context, use default methods.
  • rs_active_project: 'RStudio' current active project name
  • rs_save_all: save all editing document when 'RStudio' is running
  • rs_exec: run job in 'RStudio', otherwise use Rscript
  • ask_yesno, ask_or_default also uses 'RStudio' dialogue
  • other functions starting with rs
• add_to_session stores key-value pairs in shiny reactive sessions
• clear_env clear elements in environments or fastmap2 instances
• do_nothing literally does nothing
• shiny_is_running returns whether current context is within a shiny app
• test_farg tests whether a function contains certain arguments
• capture_expr captures outputs when evaluating expression and returns a string
• get_dev_attr get attributes from graphic devices
• print_directory_tree generates directory tree as text

Minor Changes

• dev_create can now set attributes and those attributes can be obtained by function get_dev_attr or method dev_attributes

Bug Fixes

• soft-deprecated prepare_install that might cause infinite loops

CRAN Release 0.0.8

Major Changes

• Removed dependency on crayon, added yaml
• Added shared_finalizer to finalize multiple objects only when last one is garbage collected
• added flex_div to generate div with flex layout and calculate size automatically

CRAN Release 0.0.7

dipsaus 0.0.7

Major Changes

• Removed dependency on txtq and functions related
• Added list_to_fastmap2 to convert a list to fastmap2
• Exported to_datauri, allowing any files, especially images to be translated to base-64 code and can be directly used in websites
• mask_function2 to mask variables within function by adding one environment layer on top of the function
• new_function2 creates function that supports 'quasi-quosure' syntax

Minor Changes

• Allow maximum height set for compoundInput2
• fastmap2 now accept multi-assignment with single value

Bug Fixes

• fastmap2 subset method now accept integers instead raising errors

CRAN Release 0.0.6

dipsaus 0.0.6

Major Changes

• Added support for R 3.5
• Added %D% a decorator function that works like python decorators
• Added get_dots that can get variable from ... without evaluating other variables
• Added dev_create to control switching among graphical devices
• Added use_shiny_dipsaus() to import all styles and JavaScript
• Added a wrapper for fastmap::fastmap - fastmap2, which provides several generic functions, making the original fastmap more like an environment
• Added lapply_async2, a naive version of future.lapply, but with callbacks, which is useful if play-back message is required. This is experimental. In the future when package progressr is online, this function will be adjusted.
• Added prepare_install to install CRAN packages at next startup, avoiding restarting R session multiple times.

Minor Changes

• lapply_async2 now supporting more load-balance settings

Bug Fixes

• 11 JavaScript library vulnerability bug fixed

CRAN Release 0.0.4

Major Changes

• Canceled exporting queues because of strange behavior in windows. (plan to fix this for the next version)
• Implemented function to convert Base64 DataURI string to image
• cat2 now persist logger files on local drive, and can be exported via packup_logger
• set_shiny_input to set shiny input object
• baselineArray calculates baseline for arrays with internal parallel support
• shift_array to fast shift array along certain dimension
• %+-% plus-minus operator; %=>% a "JavaScript" style of creating functions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed compoundInput2 not initialized when rendered in shiny::renderUI