Release liftr 0.5 · nanxstats/liftr

New Features

Added RStudio addins as shortcuts to containerize and render R Markdown documents.
Added new argument cache in render_docker() to improve rendering speed significantly by caching Docker image layers [#18].
Added new argument purge_info to render_docker(). This argument controls whether to output the Docker image and container name into an YAML file for purging purposes later.
Separate the creation and removal of Docker containers and images: removed the old argument reset in render_docker(); added purge_container() and purge_image() for cleaning up.
The ghpkg field is now deprecated. The new remotes field supports devtools remote package name format. Now packages can be installed from GitHub, Bitbucket, Git/SVN servers, URLs, etc.
Added new metadata field include for including any custom Dockerfile snippets into the final Dockerfile. This also fixes #21.

Renamed drender() to render_docker(). drender() is now deprecated.
Better naming scheme for liftr metadata fields.
Tidy up the output Dockerfile by lift().
Added two new examples in inst/examples/: explore tidyverse and Bioconductor RNA-Seq workflow.
New website (https://liftr.me) generated by pkgdown, with a full set of function documentation and vignettes available.
Added Appveyor support for continuous integration under Windows.
Removed Rabix support temporarily to embrace its new version in the future.
Added a new demo video.