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<p>The third release of <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler</a> as a <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=littler">CRAN package</a> is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by <a href="http://jeffreyhorner.blogspot.com/">Jeff</a> in the summer of 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later.</p>
<p><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler</a> is the first command-line interface for R and predates <code>Rscript</code>. It is still faster, and in my very biased eyes better as it allows for piping as well shebang scripting via <code>#!</code>, uses command-line arguments more consistently and still <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2014/09/02#littler-faster-at-doing-nothing">starts faster</a>. It prefers to live on Linux and Unix, has its difficulties on OS X due to yet-another-braindeadedness there (who ever thought case-insensitive filesystems where a good idea?) and simply does not exist on Windows (yet -- the build system could be extended -- see <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside.html">RInside</a> for an existence proof, and volunteers welcome!).</p>
<p>This release brings several new examples script to run package checks, use the extraordinary R Hub, download RStudio daily builds, and more -- see below for details. No internals were changed.</p>
<p>The <code>NEWS</code> file entry is below.</p>
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<h4>Changes in littler version 0.3.2 (2017-02-14)</h4>
<ul><li><p>Changes in examples</p>
<ul><li><p>New scripts <code>getRStudioServer.r</code> and <code>getRStudioDesktop.r</code> to download daily packages, currently defaults to Ubuntu amd64</p></li>
<li><p>New script <code>c4c.r</code> calling <code>rhub::check_for_cran()</code></p></li>
<li><p>New script <code>rd2md.r</code> to convert Rd to markdown.</p></li>
<li><p>New script <code>build.r</code> to create a source tarball.</p></li>
<li><p>The <code>installGitHub.r</code> script now use package <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=remotes"><span>remotes</span></a> (PR <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/44">#44</a>, <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/46">#46</a>)</p></li>
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<p>Courtesy of <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is a comparison to <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2017/02/15#littler_0.3.2">the previous release</a>. Full details for the <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler</a> release are provided as usual at the <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a> page. The code is available via the <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler">GitHub</a> repo, from tarballs off my <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler page</a> and the <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler/">local directory here</a> -- and now of course all from <a href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/littler/index.html">its CRAN page</a> and via <code>install.packages(&quot;littler&quot;)</code>. Binary packages are available directly in <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> as well as soon via <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu">Ubuntu binaries at CRAN</a> thanks to the tireless Michael Rutter.</p>
<p>Comments and suggestions are welcome at the <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/">GitHub</a> repo.</p>
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This post by <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.
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