NEWS

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optparse 1.7.5 (2024-04-16)

• We no longer coerce the type of an option default to match that of its type argument when action = "callback". Thanks husheng (@hs3434) for bug report (#47).

optparse 1.7.4 (2024-01-16)

• Revises vignette engine specification in the DESCRIPTION to suppress new CRAN check NOTE (#43).

optparse 1.7.3 (2022-07-20)

• The errors raised by parse_args() (and parse_args2()) are now of class "optparse_parse_error".

  When interactive() is FALSE we now print out a usage string followed by a (less verbose) error message.

• Throws a more informative error message for unknown short flags when positional_arguments=TRUE. Thanks Greg Minshall for bug report (#42).

optparse 1.7.1 (2021-10-08)

• Add a formatter argument to OptionParser() for a function to format the usage message (#30). By default uses the new function IndentedHelpFormatter(). {optparse} also provides the new function TitledHelpFormatter(). Thanks Ni Huang for suggestion.

optparse 1.6.6 (2020-04-16)

• Throws an error for unknown short flags and long flags when positional_arguments=TRUE. Thanks Greg Minshall for bug report (#34).
• If the callback parameter of add_option / make_option is not NULL then the default of action is now "callback". Thanks Greg Minshall for suggestion (#35).
• Better documentation of action=="callback" in the man page for add_option and make_option. Thanks Greg Minshall for bug report (#35).

optparse 1.6.4 (2019-09-16)

• Fixes bug in printing help for action=="callback" when metavar==NULL (#29). Thanks Ni Huang for bug report.
• Throws an error when passed short flags more than one letter long (#32). Thanks Gautier Richard for bug report.

optparse 1.6.2 (2019-04-02)

• Fixs a parsing bug when action=="callback" and positional_argument==TRUE (#28). Thanks Ni Huang for bug report.

optparse 1.6.1 (2019-01-15)

• Improves accuracy of README (#27). Thanks Alex Penson for bug report.

optparse 1.6.0 (2018-06-17)

• Supports callback actions (#26). Thanks Gyu Jin Choi for patch.
• If interactive() == FALSE and print_help_and_exit == TRUE then optparse will now call quit(status=0) instead of quit(status=1) after printing the help message (this matches behaviour of the python package).
• Better error message when forgetting to set add_help_option=FALSE when defining an -h or --help flag. Thanks Jeff P. Bruce for bug report.
• Increment getopt requirement so that empty strings are parsed correctly. Thanks Matthew Flickinger for bug report.

optparse 1.4.4 (2017-07-18)

• Minor documentation fixes. Thanks J. J. Ramsey and Daeyoung Kim for bug reports.
• Fix bug when add_help_option in OptionParser set to FALSE. Thanks to Jeff Bruce for bug report.
• parse_args now supports convert_hyphens_to_underscores argument which converts any hyphens to underscores when returning the list of options
• Now includes the convenience function parse_args2 which wraps parse_args with positional_arguments set to TRUE and convert_hyphens_to_underscores set to TRUE.

optparse 1.3.2 (2015-10-03)

• optparse should no longer give any warnings when options(warnPartialMatchArgs=TRUE). Thanks Rich FitzJohn for patch.
• print_help no longer throws an error if we have a default argument of length zero. Thanks Benjamin Tyner for bug report.

optparse 1.3.0 (2014-12-11)

• OptionParser and OptionParserOption S4 classes are now exported. Thanks Peter Humburg for patch.

optparse 1.2.0 (2014-04-04)

• Parameter positional_arguments of function parse_args now accepts one or two numeric values that denote the minimum and maximum number of supported positional arguments. Thanks Kirill Müller for patch.
• If interactive() == TRUE then parse_args will no longer quit(status=1) after printing a help message but will instead throw an error. optparse will continue to quit(status=1) after printing a help message for non-interactive Rscripts unless print_help_and_exit == FALSE.
• In make_option argument type="numeric" automatically cast to double. Previously users might have received an error passing negative numbers if they accidentally specified "numeric" instead of "double".
• Bug fixed in printing usage message for options with default value of NA and a help string including "%default". Thanks Stefan Seemayer for bug report and patch.

optparse 1.0.2 (2013-08-26)

• Project website moved to https://github.com/trevorld/optparse
• We now replace all occurrences of %prog in usage message (including description and epilogue). Previously we would only replace one occurrence and didn't make replacements in description and epilogue.
• Fix bug in parse_args when we have options with no short flag and positional_arguments=TRUE. Thanks Miroslav Posta for bug report.

optparse 1.0.0 (2012-11-21)

• Added description and epilogue arguments to OptionParser to allow users to add more information to generated help messages
• Slightly alters the generated usage string to match more closely what the Python module does
• No longer exports S4 classes that represent OptionParser and OptionParserOption
• Now requires package getopt (>= 1.19) which has also been moved to Imports field from Depends field in DESCRIPTION
• Now also Suggests stringr package in DESCRIPTION