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<p>The second release of <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler</a> as a <a target="_blank" href="https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/littler/index.html">CRAN package</a> is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by <a target="_blank" href="http://jeffreyhorner.blogspot.com/">Jeff</a> in the summer of 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" 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 <em>shebang</em> scripting via <code>#!</code>, uses command-line arguments more consistently and still <a target="_blank" 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 the OS X due 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 target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside.html">RInside</a> for an existence proof, and volunteers welcome!).</p>
<p>This release brings us fixes and enhancements from three other contributors, a couple new example scripts, more robust builds, extended documentation and more — see below for details.</p>
<p>The <code>NEWS</code> file entry is below.</p>
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<h4>
Changes in littler version 0.3.1 (2016-08-06)<br>
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Changes in examples
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<code>install2.r</code> now passes on extra options past <code>--</code> to <code>R CMD INSTALL</code> (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/37">#37</a> by Steven Pav)
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Added <code>rcc.r</code> to run <code>rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck()</code>
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Added (still simple) <code>render.r</code> to render (R)markdown
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Several examples now support the <code>-x</code> or <code>--usage</code> flag to show extended help.
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Changes in build system
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The <code>AM_LDFLAGS</code> variable is now set and used too (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/38">#38</a> by Mattias Ellert)
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Three more directories, used when an explicit installation directory is set, are excluded (also <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/38">#38</a> by Mattias)
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Travis CI is now driven via <code>run.sh</code> from our fork, and deploys all packages as .deb binaries using our PPA where needed
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Changes in package
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SystemRequirements now mentions the need for <code>libR</code>, i.e. an R built with a shared library so that we can embed R.
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The <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=docopt"><span>docopt</span></a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=rcmdcheck"><span>rcmdcheck</span></a> packages are now suggested, and added to the Travis installation.
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A new helper function <code>r()</code> is now provided and exported so that the package can be imported (closes <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/issues/40">#40</a>).
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URL and BugReports links were added to DESCRIPTION.
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Changes in documentation
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The help output for <code>installGithub.r</code> was corrected (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/pull/39">#39</a> by Brandon Bertelsen)
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<p>Full details for the <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler</a> release are provided as usual at the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a> page.</p>
<p>The code is available via the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler">GitHub</a> repo, from tarballs off my <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html">littler page</a> and the <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler/">local directory here</a> — and now of course all from <a target="_blank" 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 target="_blank" href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> as well as <em>soon</em> via <a target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu">Ubuntu binaries at CRAN</a> thanks to the tireless Michael Rutter. will probably have new</p>
<p>Comments and suggestions are welcome at the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/">GitHub</a> repo.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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