You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: gitlabr V2.1.0 – gitlab-ci with ‘pak’ and functions to deal with groups on GitLab

A lot of cleanups, new features, and bug fixes for this new version of ‘gitlabr’. You will find brand-new CI/CD templates and functions to manage GitLab groups from R.

Brand new gitlab-ci with ‘pak’, ready to use

• The template for checking R packages uses {pak} for dependency management. You will no longer have issues with missing system dependencies.
• You should see better use of caching, especially cache sharing between jobs. You should spend less time waiting for things to process…
• The templates for bookdown have also been revised.
• You can choose whether to update R dependencies by installing them or not with upgrade = TRUE.
• And a brand-new vignette to introduce how to use gitlabr::use_gitlab_ci()

Managing GitLab groups

• You can now create, edit, and delete groups from R on your GitLab.
• You can also manage subgroups.
• You can retrieve lists of project and group members.

gitlabr v2.1.0 – Complete NEWS

• use_gitlab_ci() does not use repo_name anymore as “rocker” images fix CRAN to a specific date.
• Functions deprecated since version 0.7 are removed
• Transfer ownership of the project to ThinkR-open

• use_gitlab_ci() allows to decide whether to update R packages during the CI pipeline
• Add vignette to explain how to use ‘gitlabr’ with GitLab CI
• gl_new_group(), gl_edit_group(), gl_delete_group(), gl_list_groups(), gl_list_sub_groups() to deal with groups on a GitLab instance (@mpolano)
• gl_new_subgroup() to create a subgroup in a group (@margotbrd)
• gl_delete_file() to delete a file in a repository
• gl_list_project_members() and gl_list_group_members to retrieve members of a project or a group (#61, @datawookie)
• gitlab() queries allow for a vector of parameters to be passed to the API. This is needed when the API asks for an array (@klmr)

• multilist_to_tibble() transforms a deep structured nested list from an API into a tibble (#86, @statnmap, @ymansiaux)

• gl_file_exists(), gl_list_files(), gl_push_file(), gl_delete_file() now work with files in subdirectories
• Fix handling file path in sub-directories in gl_push_file() (#73, #111)
• Fix combination of page and max_page for infinite pagination (#90)
• Fix auto_format=FALSE (#82)

This post is better presented on its original ThinkR website here: gitlabr V2.1.0 – gitlab-ci with ‘pak’ and functions to deal with groups on GitLab