Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

patchDVI 0.1 to 0.4

Quick initial releases.

patchDVI 0.5

• Fixes bug in handling of named chunks.
• Changes (and shrinks) format of inserted special.

patchDVI 0.6

• Removed concordance during patching, to avoid Miktex bug.

patchDVI 0.7

• Removed limitation on changing the size of a special.

patchDVI 0.8

• Allowed specials to be removed by setting their value to NA in setDVIspecials.

patchDVI 0.9

• Add expand=FALSE option.

patchDVI 1.0

• Move Sweave() changes into R-devel, delete them from patchDVI

patchDVI 1.1

• Allow it to run pdflatex (just to set the include directory)

patchDVI 1.2

• Case-insensitive filename matching.
• ChangeLog renamed to NEWS.
• Updated memory management to 2.6.x scheme.

patchDVI 1.3

• Use texify instead of latex/pdflatex in SweaveMiktex()/SweavePDFMiktex()
• Use normalizePath() so that path comparisons are more reliable.

patchDVI 1.4

• Add experimental patching of SyncTex output.
• Allow options to be specified on the command line.

patchDVI 1.5

• Add stylepath and ... args to SweaveMiktex() for more flexibility.
• Add BugReports field to DESCRIPTION.

patchDVI 1.6

• Add source.code arg to SweaveMiktex() and SweavePDFMiktex() to allow experimental versions of Sweave() to be used.

patchDVI 1.7

• Add SweaveAll(), SweavePDF(), SweaveDVI(), as well as handling .PostSweaveHook, .SweaveFiles and .TexRoot (see SweaveAll()).
• Added modified version of tools::texi2dvi(). Added vignette.
• Added preview option to Sweave* functions.
• Fixed bugs in patchDVI: no message printed, missed .tex files that were included by \input{filename}.

patchDVI 1.8.1583

• Made an attempt to handle compressed PDF files by using pdftk to uncompress them.
• Fixed bug in concordance inclusion into PDF files in Sweave(); adapted code here to handle it (for R > 2.12.2).
• Added grepConcords() method (using new grepRaw() function).
• Texworks on Windows needs Unix line endings on the Synctex file; we now produce those on all platforms.
• Fixed crash on file with no concordance.
• Missing .tex files were not being built by SweaveAll().
• Updated to handle new concordance format in R-devel (2.14.0-to-be).
• Added .SweaveMake variable to override the make arg to SweaveAll().

patchDVI 1.8.1584

• In SweavePDF() and SweaveDVI(), wrapped texi2dvi() call in try() in case of bad return status.

patchDVI 1.8.1585

• Added quick start instructions, and editor instructions.

patchDVI 1.9

CRAN release: 2013-01-10

• Cleaned up for CRAN release.

patchDVI 1.9.1594

• Added SweaveDVIPDFM() to allow users to use latex/dvipdfm rather than pdflatex.
• Updated the TeXShop and TeXWorks instructions.
• Added vignette for Japanese language work.
• Added patchLog() function to patch messages in log files.
• Added patchLog option to the Sweave* functions to call patchLog().
• Added sleep parameter to the Miktex Sweave* functions.

patchDVI 1.9.1616

CRAN release: 2015-06-09

• Modified SweaveAll() and patchSynctex() to allow non-Sweave vignette support (aimed at knitr).
• Added useknitr() and defSconcordance() functions for the same aim.
• Improved Japanese language support, and updated the Japanese.Rnw vignette with the help of Prof. Haruhiko Okumura.

patchDVI 1.9.1619

• Imported file_test() to avoid warning.
• Quotes in DESCRIPTION.
• Better error message when building Japanese vignette.

patchDVI 1.9.1620

• SweaveAll() now has a force = TRUE argument, to allow it to do staleness checking from the beginning. It also has a verbose = FALSE argument for debugging.

patchDVI 1.9.1621

• Added more support for RStudio, including knitInRStudio().

patchDVI 1.10.1

CRAN release: 2020-05-08

• Added needsPackages() function.

patchDVI 1.11.0

CRAN release: 2023-03-14

• Added support for R Markdown sources using R Markdown output driver pdf_documentC() and the new RmdConcord package.
• Moved source to Github, added website https://dmurdoch.github.io/patchDVI/ .

patchDVI 1.11.1

• Added support for markdown::latex_format output.