devtools 1.5 is now available on CRAN. It includes four new functions to make it easier to add useful infrastructure to packages:
add_test_infrastructure()will create testthat infrastructure when needed.add_rstudio_project()adds an Rstudio project file to your package.add_travis()adds a basic template for travis-ci.add_build_ignore()makes it easy to add files to.Rbuildignore, escaping special characters as needed.
We’ve also bumped two dependencies: devtools now requires R 3.0.2 and roxygen2 3.0.0. We’ve also included many minor improvements and bug fixes, particularly for package installation. For example install_github() now prefers the safer github personal access token, and does a better job of installing the dependencies that you actually need. We also provide versions of help(), ? and system.file() that work with all packages, regardless of how they’re loaded. See a complete list of changes in the full release notes.