Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

risk.assessr 2.0.0

New Features

• Author Metadata Expansion:

  • Added $author section including maintainer, funder, and a full list of contributing authors with ORCID IDs and roles.

• Hosting Metadata Extraction:

  • New $host section includes GitHub and CRAN, Bioconductor and internal package

• GitHub Repository:

  • Added $github_data with:
    • created_at
    • stars
    • forks
    • recent_commits_count

• CRAN download:

  • Added $download with:
    • total_download
    • last_month_download

• Package version:

  • Added $version_info with:
    • available_version
    • last_version

• Bioconductor compatibility:

  • assess_pkg_r_package() function now fetches bioconductor source package

• renv.lock processing:

  • risk_assess_pkg_lock_files() function now processes renv.lock and pak.lock files

• Suggested Dependency Analysis:

  • Introduced $suggested_deps output as a tibble with source, suggested_function, targeted_package, and contextual message.

• Traceability Matrix:

  • now processes and reports on regular, S3, and S4 functions.

• Package validation report:

  • HTML report creation with interactive features for package validation

Improvements

• Structured Dependency Extraction:

  • Dependencies are now returned as structured nested lists under $dependencies$imports and $dependencies$suggests, replacing the previous flat string format.

  • Each suggested package now includes installed version from getsession()

  • Added $license_name for readable license detection, e.g., "MIT + file LICENSE"

  • Added $rev_deps returning list reverse dependency

  • risk_assess_pkg() now includes an optional parameter “path” for locally stored package

  • remove httr2 and tibble dependencies

risk.assessr 1.0.0

First package version inspired by riskmetric.

Package features include:

• Run CMD, test coverage
• Traceability Matrix
• Metadata (Date, system, OS)
• Quality extraction metrics (documentation, license, examples, vignettes)
• assess_pkg_r_package() function fetches source code from CRAN