CRAN requested a release updating any URLs for Omegahat to the (actually working) omegahat.net URL. So that caused this 0.1.2 release which arrived on CRAN yesterday. It contains the requested change along with one or two other mostly minor changes which accumulated since the last release.

drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Since its inception in early 2015 it has found reasonably widespread adoption among R users because repositories is what we use. In other words, friends don’t let friends use install_github(). Just kidding. Maybe. Or not.

The NEWS file summarises the release as follows:

Changes in drat version 0.1.2 (2016-10-28)

• Changes in drat documentation

  • The FAQ vignette added a new question Why use drat

  • URLs were made canonical, omegahat.net was updated from .org

  • Several files (README.md, Description, help pages) were edited

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More detailed information is on the drat page.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.