NEWS

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getopt 1.20.4 (2023-10-01)

• Documentation tweaks eliminating a CRAN check NOTE.
• {covr} is no longer a "suggested" package in the DESCRIPTION file.

getopt 1.20.3 (2019-03-22)

• Now by default getopt() won't override a user specified opt argument if argv is in the global environment. Will continue to use argv as a default for opt if it is in the global environment and the user does not specify an opt argument (for littler compatibility).

getopt 1.20.2 (2018-02-16)

• Now allows one to pass an empty string to a character option. Thanks Matthew Flickinger for bug report.

getopt 1.20.1 (2017-11-29)

• Now explicitly imports the na.omit() method from the stats package. Thanks Derrick Oswald for bug report.
• Improved parsing for negative numbers preceded by a space instead of a '=' sign.
  Thanks Roman Zenka for improved regular expression.
• Slightly more informative error message if storage.mode() coercion results in an NA. Thanks Roman Zenka for suggestion.

getopt 1.20.0 (2013-08-30)

• Type of "numeric" in spec automatically cast to "double".
  Previously users might have had an error passing negative numbers if they accidentally specified "numeric" instead of "double".
• Project website moved to https://github.com/trevorld/getopt
• Exports new function sort_list().

getopt 1.19.1 (2013-03-04)

• If a passed in option matches multiple options in the getopt specification but matches one exactly then getopt now uses that value instead of throwing a "long flag is ambiguous" error.

getopt 1.19.0 (2012-11-18)

• Exports new function get_Rscript_filename() that returns name of calling script, {getopt} now uses this function value as default for command argument.
• Documentation improved and now highlights differences between {getopt} and {optparse} packages for new undecided users.