RcppAPT 0.0.4

A new version of RcppAPT — our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like — arrived on CRAN yesterday.

We added a few more functions in order to compute on the package graph. A concrete example is shown in this vignette which determines the (minimal) set of remaining Debian packages requiring a rebuild under R 3.4.* to update their .C() and .Fortran() registration code. It has been used for the binNMU request #868558.

As we also added a NEWS file, its (complete) content covering all releases follows below.

Changes in version 0.0.4 (2017-07-16)

• New function getDepends

• New function reverseDepends

• Added package registration code

• Added usage examples in scripts directory

• Added vignette, also in docs as rendered copy

Changes in version 0.0.3 (2016-12-07)

• Added dumpPackages, showSrc

Changes in version 0.0.2 (2016-04-04)

• Added reverseDepends, dumpPackages, showSrc

Changes in version 0.0.1 (2015-02-20)

• Initial version with getPackages and hasPackages

A bit more information about the package is available here as well as as the GitHub repo.

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