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Updates needed for the cheatsheet

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Thanks to @averiperny the package development cheatsheet got a much-needed update in June/July 2022. Hopefully we'll test drive it in workshops at rstudio::conf(2022). However, we fully expect that it needs...

jennybc

Should `devtools::check()` also run `pkgdown::check_pkgdown()`?

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If pkgdown is installed, and `_pkgdown.yml` is present. That would make it harder to add a new function and forget to add to the pkgdown reference index.

hadley

Function factories defined out of collation order lead to head-scratching errors. Adding a hint would help.

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** I was trying to figure out why a function `make_function` defined in file b.R which defines another function `cool_function` in...

wdkrnls

Review exported non-internal functions

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Just to make sure we're not advertising anything that we'd no longer recommend. Functions to think about: * `release()` * `reload()` * `bash()` * `wd()` * `dev_mode()`

hadley

with_temp_install()

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There are an increasing number of places where we want to run R code in another session with the package installed. But installing is a relatively expensive operation, so it...

hadley

devtools fails in paths with utf-8 letters

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Hi, I am using R on windows in germany in folders with non-standard letters (e.g. ü) I have been using devtools on windows with R 4.0.2 and R 4.1.2 with...

clemenskuehn

Since the macOS builder doesn't send you an email, and the URL doesn't work right away, it's very easy to send a job, but then have no way to find...

jennybc

Support for running tests made with the tinytest package

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Currently, `devtools::test()` is tied to the **testthat** package, which is sensible enough. However, there are more than a hundred CRAN...

atheriel

Custom knit function for vignettes

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It's possible to customise what happens when you click the "Knit" button with a `knit` field in the yaml metadata: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/custom-knit.html. For README.Rmd and vignettes, we should set this to...

hadley

Request: add a way to check for build-time dependencies

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(I'm creating this issue to track a discussion that started elsewhere.) In general, it's a bad idea to run code from another package at build time, because it can bake-in...

wch