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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2018/05/18#inline-0.3.15"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>A maintenance release of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=inline" target="_blank">inline</a> package arrived on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cran.r-project.org/" target="_blank">CRAN</a> today. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=inline" target="_blank">inline</a> facilitates writing code <em>in-line</em> in simple string expressions or short files. The package is mature and in maintenance mode: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html" target="_blank">Rcpp</a> used it greatly for several years but then moved on to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/vignettes/Rcpp-attributes.pdf" target="_blank">Rcpp Attributes</a> so we have a much limited need for extensions to inline. But a number of other package have a hard dependence on it, so we do <em>of course</em> look after it as part of the <em>open source social contract</em> (which is a name I just made up, but you get the idea…)</p>
<p>This release was triggered by a (as usual very reasonable) CRAN request to update the per-package manual page which had become stale. We now use Rd macros, you can see the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/inline/commit/51d1ed2fbb5493b0cbc76d9bdf22beec7fe42ec9?diff=split#diff-c6be7fcd65260038f24d97252a80fef7" target="_blank">diff</a> for just that file at GitHub; I also include it below. My <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/pkgkitten.html" target="_blank">pkgKitten</a> package-creation helper uses the same scheme, I wholeheartedly recommend it — as the diff shows, it makes things <em>a lot</em> simpler.</p>
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<p>Some other changes reflect both two user-contributed pull request, as well as standard minor package update issues. See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the <code>NEWS</code> file.</p>
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<h4>Changes in inline version 0.3.15 (2018-05-18)</h4>
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<p>Correct <code>requireNamespace()</code> call thanks (Alexander Grueneberg in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/inline/pull/5" target="_blank">#5</a>).</p>
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<p>Small simplification to <code>.travis.yml</code>; also switch to https.</p>
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<p>Use <code>seq_along</code> instead of <code>seq(along=...)</code> (Watal M. Iwasaki) in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/inline/pull/6" target="_blank">#6</a>).</p>
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<p>Update package manual page using references to <code>DESCRIPTION</code> file [CRAN request].</p>
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<p>Minor packaging updates.</p>
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<p>Courtesy of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/" target="_blank">CRANberries</a>, there is a comparison to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2018/05/18#inline_0.3.15" target="_blank">the previous release</a>.</p>
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This post by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/" target="_blank">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/" target="_blank">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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