Updates

[rociojoo]

This could be the best way to keep communication on the updates that we'll do in the future.

• All issues opened before our checking period have been replied to.
• It seems that we are all happy with the CTV now. The changes are summarized in the NEWS.md file.
• I'll send the ctv to Achim.

[rociojoo]

I was about to do that but... rsMove was removed from CRAN yesterday. I'll remove it from the ctv, add a comment on the Tracking_tbl.csv about it, push and send the ctv.

[rociojoo]

Notes for future self:

1. Update the date of the CTV version
2. Update the reference to the Joo et al. paper
3. Submit issues on eye and mouse packages if relevant:

• mousetrap https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mousetrap
• eyelinker https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/eyelinker
• eyetracking https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/eyetracking/index.html
• gazepath https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gazepath/index.html
• mousetrack https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mousetrack/index.html
• saccades https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/saccades/index.html
• (eyetrackingR has been deprecated on CRAN in 2020-07)

4. Check pathroutr https://github.com/jmlondon/pathroutr/
5. Check track2kba https://github.com/BirdLifeInternational/track2kba
6. Check actel https://github.com/hugomflavio/actel
7. Check RSP https://github.com/YuriNiella/RSP
8. Check migflow https://github.com/KiranLDA/migflow
9. Check PAMLr https://github.com/KiranLDA/PAMLr
10. Check BaBA https://github.com/wx-ecology/BaBA
11. Check smoove https://github.com/EliGurarie/smoove
12. Check nestR https://github.com/picardis/nestR
13. Check vmsbase https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vmsbase/index.html

[basille]

Other things to consider:

• Use GitHub Actions for continuous integration of the CTV (just like a R package). That would allow to automatically test current packages. New packages would only be tested when formally added. See here for relevant examples.
• Check pak as an alternative to packrat to deal with the private library of packages. pak seems to download and install packages faster, but the benefits might not be that great if packages installs are run serially (instead of parallel install).

[basille]

Continued:

• Add individual issues for each package of the list, so we have one place for all discussion points related to a package. We could certainly have templates for basic messages (for instance those that are on CRAN or checks CRAN tests).
• Consider contacting maintainers of each package to let them know about the CTV and their individual issue for relevant discussion.