News

pkgdown 1.3.0

• Restore accidentally deleted build_logo() function so that logos are once more copied to the website.

• Fix to pkgdown.css so page header has correct amount of top margin.

• content-home.html template is no longer used when the homepage is an .Rmd (Reverts #834. Fixes #927, #929)

• deploy_site_github() now passes parameters to build_site() (@noamross, #922), and the documentation gives slightly better advice.

• Correct off-by-one error in navbar highlighting javascript; now no navbar is highlighted if none match the current path (#911).

• Tweaking of HTML table classes was fixed (@yonicd, #912)

• Restore accidentally removed docsearch.css file.

pkgdown 1.2.0

New features

• deploy_site_github() can be used from continuous intergration systems (like travis) to automatically deploy your package website to GitHub Pages. See documentation for how to set up details (@jimhester).

• build_favicon() creates high resolution favicons from the package logo, and saves them in pkgdown/. They are created using the http://realfavicongenerator.net API, and are better suited for modern web usage (e.g. retina display screens, desktop shortcuts, etc.). This also removes the dependency on the magick package, making automated deployment a little easier (@bisaloo, #883).

• Users with limited internet connectivity can explicitly disable internet usage by pkgdown by setting options(pkgdown.internet = FALSE) (#774, #877).

Improvements to Rd translation

• rd2html() is now exported to facilitate creation of translation reprexes.

• \Sexpr{} conversion supports multiple arguments, eliminating x must be a string or a R connection errors when using \doi{} (#738).

• \tabular{} conversion better handles empty cells (#780).

• \usage{} now supports qualified functions eliminating
  Error in fun_info(x) : Unknown call: :: errors (#795).

• Invalid tags now generate more informative errors (@BarkleyBG, #771, #891)

Front end

• The default footer now displays the version of pkgdown used to build the site (#876).

• All third party resources are now fetched from a single CDN and are give a SRI hash (@bisaloo, #893).

• The navbar version now has class "version" so you can more easily control its display (#680).

• The default css has been tweaked to ensure that icons are visible on all browsers (#852).

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Home page

• Can now build sites for older packages that don't have a [email protected] field (#727).

• Remote urls ending in .md are no longer tweaked to end in .html (#763).

• Bug report link is only shown if there's a "BugReports" field (#855).

• content-home.html template is now used when the homepage is an .Rmd (@goldingn, #787).

• A link to the source inst/CITATION was added to the authors page (#714).

News

• Uses stricter regular expression when linking to GitHub authors (#902).

Reference

• Unexported functions and test helpers are no longer loaded (#789).

• Selectors that do not match topics now generate a warning. If none of the specified selectors have a match, no topics are selected (#728).

Articles

• The display depth of vignette tables of contents can be configured by setting toc: depth in _pkgdown.yml (#821):

  toc:
    depth: 2

Overall site

• init_site() now creates a CNAME file if one doesn't already exist and the site's metadata includes a url field.

• build_site() loses vestigal mathjax parameter. This didn't appear to do anything and no one could remember why it existed (#785).

• build_site() now uses colors even if new_process = TRUE (@jimhester).

pkgdown 1.1.0

New features

• build_reference() and build_site() get new document argument. When TRUE, the default, will automatically run devtools::document() to ensure that your documentation is up to date.

• build_site() gains a new_process argument, which defaults to TRUE. This will run pkgdown in a separate process, and is recommended practice because it improves reproducibility (#647).

• Improved display for icons: icons must be 30px and stored in top-level icons/ directory. They are embedded in a separate column of reference index table, instead of being inside a comment (!) (#607).

Front end

• Added a keyboard shortcut for searching. Press shift + / (?) to move focus to the search bar (#642).

• The Algolia logo is correctly shown in the search results (#673).

• Navbar active tab highlighting uses a superior approach (suggested by @jcheng5) which should mean that the active page is correctly highlighted in all scenarios (#660).

• pkgdown.js is better isolated so it should still work even if you load html widgets that import a different version of jquery (#655).

Improvements to Rd translation

• vignette() calls that don't link to existing vignettes silently fail to link instead of generating an uninformative error messages (#652). Automatic linking works for re-exported objects that are not functions (@gaborcsardi, #666).

• Empty \section{}s are ignored (#656). Previously, empty sections caused error Error in rep(TRUE, length(x) - 1).

• \Sexpr{} supports results=text, results=Rd and results=hide (#651).

• \tabular{} no longer requires a terminal \cr (#664, #645).

Minor bug fixes and improvements

• Add inst/pkgdown.yml as a possible site configuration file so that packages on CRAN can be built without needing the development version (#662).

• Default navbar template now uses site title, not package name (the package name is the default title, so this will not affect most sites) (#654).

• You can suppress indexing by search engines by setting noindex: true pkgdown.yml (#686)

  template:
    params:
      noindex: true

• build_article() sets IN_PKGDOWN env var so in_pkgdown() works (#650).

• build_home(): CITATION files with non-UTF-8 encodings (latin1) work correctly, instead of generating an error. For non-UTF-8 locales, ensure you have e.g. Encoding: latin1 in your DESCRIPTION; but best practice is to re-enode your CITATION file to UTF-8 (#689).

• build_home(): Markdown files (e.g., CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) stored in .github/ are copied and linked correctly (#682).

• build_news(): Multi-page changelogs (generated from NEWS.md with news: one_page: false in _pkgdown.yml) are rendered correctly.

• build_reference(): reference index shows infix functions (like %+%) as `%+%`, not `%+%`() on (#659).

pkgdown 1.0.0

• Major refactoring of path handling. build_ functions no longer take path or depth arguments. Instead, set the destination directory at the top level of pkgdown.yml.

• Similarly, build_news() no longer takes a one_page argument; this should now be specified in the _pkgdown.yml instead. See the documentation for an example.

Reference manual