Help with Preparing a New Version of an R Package.

{releaser}

{releaser} helps the developer to release their package and update informations (DESCRIPTION, CHANGELOG…) of the package.

Installation

You can install the development version of {releaser} from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("TanguyBarthelemy/releaser")

Usage

library("releaser")

You can extract the latest version of a package on GitHub and display the different future version:

version <- get_latest_version("rjdverse/rjd3toolkit")
#> Fetched DESCRIPTION from branch: v3.5.1
#> Version found on branch v3.5.1: 3.5.1
#> Dernière release : 3.5.1
#> Fetching branches from repository: rjdverse/rjd3toolkit
#> Found branches: develop, gh-pages, main, snapshot
#> Fetched DESCRIPTION from branch: develop
#> Version found on branch develop: 3.5.2
#> Version sur develop  : 3.5.2
#> Fetched DESCRIPTION from branch: main
#> Version found on branch main: 3.5.1
#> Version sur main  : 3.5.1
#> Fetched DESCRIPTION from branch: snapshot
#> Version found on branch snapshot: 3.5.1.9500
#> Version sur snapshot  : 3.5.1.9500
get_different_future_version(version)
#> Package version bumped from '3.5.1' to '3.5.2'
#> Future patch version: 3.5.2
#> Package version bumped from '3.5.2' to '3.6.0'
#> Future minor version: 3.6.0
#> Package version bumped from '3.6.0' to '4.0.0'
#> Future major version: 4.0.0
#> current_version.Version    future_patch_version    future_minor_version 
#>                 "3.5.1"                 "3.5.2"                 "3.6.0" 
#>    future_major_version 
#>                 "4.0.0"