NEWS

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modules 0.13.0 (2024-01-21)

• 'export' now raises a warning when called from outside of a module instead of raising an error. #47

modules 0.12.0 (2023-08-25)

• Bugfix when exporting object with special characters of length 1, e.g. '!' #45

modules 0.11.0 (2023-06-10)

• Bugfix when exporting objects with whitespace in its name #39
• Bugfix when exporting objects with special characters in its name #43

modules 0.10.0 (2021-02-06)

• CRAN release
• Bugfix when exporting objects with special names #37

modules 0.9.0 (2021-01-31)

• CRAN release
• Bugfix from issue #16 on Github: extend a module which has been loaded from a file now actually works
• Extending the export mechanism to allow for renaming: see #19
• Reattaching a module in the .GlobalEnv now actually works. See #24
• Importing a complete package now also imports datasets. See #29
• importDefaultPackages can be used to import Rs default packages, e.g. utils and stats. See #31

modules 0.8.0 (2019-02-10)

• CRAN release
• Update to documentation
• Bugfix: find 'module' inside a module declaration
• New function 'getSearchPathContent' to investigate the search path of a module
• getSearchPath can now handle functions and modules as argument
• New vignettes
• 'use' and 'import' now signal conflicts using 'packageStartupMessage' instead of 'message'. They can now also be suppressed using 'suppressPackageStartupMessage'.
• Skipping test for cross package dependencies on CRAN - not yet possible to reproduce locally.

modules 0.7.0 (2018-07-15)

• CRAN release
• New function 'depend' to declare package dependencies
• Throw error when names are exported which are not available
• New function 'amodule' aka module2 -> improved scoping of modules and dependency injection
• The function 'use' will now find symbols defined in a top level environment
• The function 'use' can now also handle URLs

modules 0.6.0 (2017-07-22)

• CRAN release
• Fixing conditional use of packages in suggests

modules 0.5.2

• Update documentation for parameterized modules.

modules 0.5.1

• New function: extend, can be used to extend an existing module definition.

modules 0.5.0 (2016-11-02)

• CRAN release

modules 0.4.4

• Eliminated package dependencies: 'aoos' and 'methods'

modules 0.4.3

• Fix for print method.
• Removing class and function 'modfun'

modules 0.4.2

• The function 'import' now has the additional argument 'attach' and returns an environment containing the specified imports.

modules 0.4.1

• Bugfix in expose when not called from within a module.

modules 0.4.0 (2016-04-07)

• Cran release
• Minor bugfixes
• Update for testthat compatibility

modules 0.3.1

• 'export' now appends the vector of exports instead of replacing it.
• Bugfix in 'export' for regexs.

modules 0.3.0 (2016-02-23)

• CRAN release

modules 0.2.4

• 'import' now checks if a package dependency is installed instead of quietly waiting for a runtime error: fail early!

modules 0.2.3

• modules can now distinguish between situations in which they are constructed inside a package, inside another module (nested module), or inside a script. This behaviour is implemented in 'autoTopEncl' and can be overridden. This behaviour defines the search path of a module.

modules 0.2.2

• 'use' and 'expose' have different argument names. '...' can now be used to select objects to load / attach. The order of arguments has changed to be consistent with 'import'. 'reInit' can be used to trigger re-initialization of module.

modules 0.2.1

• When 'use' is called, modules are re initialized by default.
• A 'module' now has an attribute 'moduleConst' which knows how to initialize a module and contains sufficient information for that process.
• New function 'expose' to inherit a whole module.

modules 0.2.0 (2016-01-06)

• CRAN release

modules 0.1.4

• ad-hoc documentation of functions using '##' as trigger.

modules 0.1.3

• as.module and thus use now accept a directory path. In this case all R-files in that directory are treated as module and returned as list of modules.

modules 0.1.2

• use and import now avoid duplicate dependencies on the search path
• new functions: getSearchPath, getSearchPathNames to explore the local search path

modules 0.1.1

• fix when de-parsing imports

modules 0.1.0 (2015-12-19)

• CRAN release

modules 0.0.8

• use does not attach by default
• a regex in export is indicated by a leading "^"

modules 0.0.5

• exports

modules 0.0.4

• new function: as.module