NEWS

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dipsaus 0.3.3 (2026-01-09)

• Added fancyDirectoryInput to allow uploading directory in shiny apps (browser support getAsFileSystemHandle or webkitGetAsEntry is needed)
• Allows streaming the directory data when the folder is large
• Added progress-bar when uploading directory
• Added maxSize to both fancyFileInput and fancyDirectoryInput to allow overriding the default upload size options
• Fixed a race condition (thanks @HenrikBengtsson)

dipsaus 0.3.2 (2025-11-17)

• Further removed the internal API calls to ENCLOS and CLOSENV

dipsaus 0.3.1 (2025-04-03)

• Using importFrom instead importing the whole shiny package
• Fixed compatibility issue when using customized shiny components in bslib
• get_ip no longer throw warnings
• Added session as argument to close_alert2
• Using Rcpp instead of native interface to avoid the internal API calls to ENCLOS and CLOSENV
• future::plan calls is automatically cleaned by default

dipsaus 0.3.0 (2024-12-17)

• Improved lapply_async and tries to automatically set global variable sizes when large environment and variables need to be serialized
• Removed magrittr, remotes, and glue from 'Suggests'

Changes

dipsaus 0.2.9 (2024-06-27)

Changes

• Added is_from_namespace to check if a function is from a namespace
• Reexported jsonlite functions
• Fixed potential imbalance protection in quantile2
• Fixed a documentation issue
• Updated JavaScript dependency

dipsaus 0.2.8 (2023-07-03)

Changes

• Added fancyFileInput with customized CSS to original shiny::fileInput

dipsaus 0.2.7 (2023-05-26)

Changes

• Added more default shortcuts
• Used system2 instead of system in rs_runjob_alt for more controls
• Upgraded JavaScript libraries
• Fixed lapply_async2 not respecting chunk size when callback is unspecified
• Removed cpp11 compiling flags to use system defaults
• Actively clear users cache directory when directories are empty

dipsaus 0.2.6 (2023-01-21)

Changes

• Fixed fastmap2 and fastqueue2 when subsetting with missing index resulting in errors
• Re-exports some cli, rlang functions
• Using the most recent fixed version of tinythread that correctly join pthread
• Allowed rs_exec to return as a promise object
• Removed base64url from dependence and implemented equivalent functions using base64enc
• Removed prepare_install2
• Removed startup from dependence
• Fixed Javascript vulnerability issues

dipsaus 0.2.5 (2022-10-22)

Changes

• Removed RcppParallel, using TinyThread only to avoid TBB related installation issues
• Removed autoconf script, using a much simpler way to generate compiler flags
• Added keyboard shortcut to run debugging code easily
• Allowed parse_svec to have space around connectors
• Added a new method to baseline_array for absolute contrast

Bug Fixes

• Fixed TinyThread memory leak issues

dipsaus 0.2.4 (2022-08-24)

Major Changes

• Automatically set system environments to be the same as master process in rs_exec
• Added rs_set_repos to set RStudio preference, allowing to add CRAN-like repositories when running inside of RStudio

Minor Changes

• Upgraded JavaScript libraries to fix the dependence vulnerability issues

dipsaus 0.2.3 (2022-08-06)

Major Changes

• Added rstudioapi wrapper rs_edit_file to allow editing files directly in RStudio

Minor Changes

• parse_svec handles multiple lengths all together, and parse_svec(1:10) is equivalent to parse_svec("1:10")
• Allowed rs_exec to run nested. However, there is a risk of parent process ends before the nested child process finishes. In this case, parent temporary directory will be destroyed, and child process will become orphan (results will become unavailable)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "offset-parent" issue in compoundInput2 when max-height is unset, but overflow is still hidden for the select inputs

dipsaus 0.2.2 (2022-06-18)

Major Changes

• Added a special %OF% to make sure the result is constrained

Minor Changes

• Replaced some functions from stringr to self-implemented base-R functions, plan to remove stringr in the future
• Create shiny_input_bindings list on package load

Bug Fixes

• Fixed print_directory_tree where an if condition generates warning for vectors with lengths greater than 1

dipsaus 0.2.1 (2022-05-29)

Major Changes

• Removed synchronicity package from dependency
• dipsaus_lock and dipsaus_unlock is exclusive-only and will be deprecated in the future
• PersistContainer is scheduled to be deprecated in the future
• Re-export detectCores and digest
• Added get_credential to generate strong passwords for different services using one single master password

Enhancement

• sync_shiny_inputs uses fastmap instead of environments
• sync_shiny_inputs uses the new bindEvent scheme to replace observeEvent
• Added sorted argument to as.list.fastmap2
• Ignored ... argument in as.list.fastqueue2
• rs_show_shortcut shows current shortcut expressions

Bug Fixes

• compoundInput2 now activates callback functions once using updateCompoundInput2
• Fixed get_ram not working on windows when user has no access to run wmic command
• Allow lapply_async progress bar to show in shiny applications (with backward compatibility)

dipsaus 0.2.0 (2022-01-27)

Major Changes

• Allow fastmap2 to as.list recursively
• Added mean_se to calculate mean and standard error of mean
• Re-exported digest from digest package
• Added combine_html_class and remove_html_class to manipulate HTML classes
• Force enabled ANSI color display for rs_exec when the jobs run in RStudio

Minor Changes

• Cleaned get_os so it does not depend on stringr anymore

Big Fixes

• Fixed progress2 not working properly in non-interactive sessions (but shiny is still running)

dipsaus 0.1.9 (2021-10-13)

Minor Changes

• compoundInput2 now respects the par(fg) and sets foreground accordingly

Big Fixes

• Fixed missing_dots freezing the session when incorrectly called
• Fixed autoconf warnings

dipsaus 0.1.8 (2021-09-06)

Major Changes

• Added lapply_callr to replace async_workers with cleaner and more robust implementation
• Added as_pipe to make any functions to pipe-friendly
• Added rs_add_shortcut to allow customized shortcuts in RStudio
• Added missing_dots to detect if dots are missing values

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in lapply_async2 when failing to restore plan

Enhancements

• Updated JavaScript libraries

dipsaus 0.1.7 (2021-07-26)

Major Changes

• Added fastquantile to estimate single quantile, which is faster than base R
• Added RStudio shortcuts, allowing customized code from shortcuts
• Added shiny_alert2 that launches large alerts in shiny applications
• Added %<-?% to only assign when right-hand side expression is valid and not null
• Removed qs_map, redis_map
• Removed dependence qs, RcppRedis, htmltools
• Removed make_async_evaluator

dipsaus 0.1.6 (2021-07-08)

Major Changes

• Added fastcov2 to calculate covariance in parallel
• Added sumsquared to calculate sum-squared faster
• Added sexp_type to obtain internal data type code

Bug Fixes

• Robust get_ram function. The function will return NA on Solaris, and actual memories in byte on other platforms.
• Fixed rs_focus_console not doing its job
• Fixed rs_exec when wait is true but not actually waiting

Enhancements

• Updated JavaScript libraries to fix vulnerability issues
• Allow rs_exec to return to console after submitting jobs (RStudio version 1.4 required)
• Removed unused functions in README.md.

dipsaus 0.1.5 (2021-02-20)

Major Changes

• Removed function get_cpu
• Added function to convert base64 to its encoding characters

Bug Fixes

• Robust get_ram function. The function will return NA on Solaris, and actual memories in byte on other platforms.

dipsaus 0.1.3 (2021-02-13)

Major Changes

• Added a wrapper for fastmap::fastqueue (fastqueue2) that shows friendly messages and can query elements
• Added wrapper method to convert any Base64 string to its generating string
• Soft-deprecate lock and unlock functions
• Soft remove the experimental function make_async_evaluator to embrace the new restbatch package

dipsaus 0.1.2 (2021-01-10)

Major Changes

• Added make_forked_clusters and lapply_async2 now restores previous future strategy one exiting

Minor Changes

• make_forked_clusters allows to set a backup strategy once forked process fails (for example, on windows)

Bug Fixes

• RAM usage is corrected on windows
• Bumped JavaScript dependence ini

dipsaus 0.1.1 (2020-10-09)

Major Changes

• Added async_works to allow scheduling works in the background using multiple sessions.

Minor Changes

• Instead of showing "finished", progress bar now shows square box once finished for cleaner output
• rs_exec now allows packages to be loaded before scripts
• Internally added attached_packages to detect attached packages

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lapply_async2 when plan is multisession, added future seed

dipsaus 0.1.0 (2020-08-12)

Major Changes

• Removed uglifyjs and use terser instead
• rs_exec now respects wait when running as RStudio jobs
• use_shiny_dipsaus can wrap around HTML tags now

Bug Fixes

• use_shiny_dipsaus now correctly add JavaScript and css tags
• uglifyjs is not maintained any more and it might cause vulnerability issues, fixed the dependency versions

dipsaus 0.0.9 (2020-07-17)

Major Changes

• Added rstudioapi related functions. When running with 'RStudio', take advantages of 'RStudio' user interface; when running in console, or non-interactive context, use default methods.
  • rs_active_project: 'RStudio' current active project name
  • rs_save_all: save all editing document when 'RStudio' is running
  • rs_exec: run job in 'RStudio', otherwise use Rscript
  • ask_yesno, ask_or_default also uses 'RStudio' dialogue
  • other functions starting with rs
• add_to_session stores key-value pairs in shiny reactive sessions
• clear_env clear elements in environments or fastmap2 instances
• do_nothing literally does nothing
• shiny_is_running returns whether current context is within a shiny app
• test_farg tests whether a function contains certain arguments
• capture_expr captures outputs when evaluating expression and returns a string
• get_dev_attr get attributes from graphic devices
• print_directory_tree generates directory tree as text

Minor Changes

• dev_create can now set attributes and those attributes can be obtained by function get_dev_attr or method dev_attributes

Bug Fixes

• soft-deprecated prepare_install that might cause infinite loops

dipsaus 0.0.8 (2020-06-23)

Major Changes

• Removed dependency on crayon, added yaml
• Added shared_finalizer to finalize multiple objects only when last one is garbage collected
• Removed autoconf script and Makevars as no special flags are needed
• added flex_div to generate div with flex layout and calculate size automatically

dipsaus 0.0.7 (2020-05-12)

Major Changes

• Removed dependency on txtq and functions related
• Added list_to_fastmap2 to convert a list to fastmap2
• Exported to_datauri, allowing any files, especially images to be translated to base-64 code and can be directly used in websites
• mask_function2 to mask variables within function by adding one environment layer on top of the function
• new_function2 creates function that supports 'quasi-quosure' syntax

Minor Changes

• Allow maximum height set for compoundInput2
• fastmap2 now accept multi-assignment with single value

Bug Fixes

• fastmap2 subset method now accept integers instead raising errors

dipsaus 0.0.6 (2020-04-05)

Major Changes

• Added support for R 3.5
• Added %D% a decorator function that works like python decorators
• Added get_dots that can get variable from ... without evaluating other variables

Minor Changes

• lapply_async2 now supporting more load-balance settings

Bug Fixes

• 11 JavaScript library vulnerability bug fixed

dipsaus 0.0.5 (2020-03-12)

Major Changes

• Added dev_create to control switching among graphical devices
• Added use_shiny_dipsaus() to import all styles and JavaScript
• Added a wrapper for fastmap::fastmap - fastmap2, which provides several generic functions, making the original fastmap more like an environment
• Added lapply_async2, a naive version of future.lapply, but with callbacks, which is useful if play-back message is required. This is experimental. In the future when package progressr is online, this function will be adjusted.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved memory leaks in compoundInput2
• Use fastmap2 instead of environments to manage set_shiny_input

dipsaus 0.0.4 (2020-01-20)

Major Changes

• Canceled exporting queues because of strange behavior in windows. (plan to fix this for the next version)
• Implemented function to convert Base64 DataURI string to image
• cat2 now persist logger files on local drive, and can be exported via packup_logger
• set_shiny_input to set shiny input object
• baselineArray calculates baseline for arrays with internal parallel support
• shift_array to fast shift array along certain dimension
• %+-% plus-minus operator; %=>% a "JavaScript" style of creating functions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed compoundInput2 not initialized when rendered in shiny::renderUI

dipsaus 0.0.3 (2019-11-18)

Major Changes

Parallel

• Added four cross-session map types qs_map, text_map, rds_map, and redis_map
• Created R6 class PersistContainer, designed to cache key-value pairs on the local hard disk
• Implemented function make_async_evaluator that works as scheduler to queue arbitrary number of tasks without blocking main R session

Minor Changes

• Renamed txtq_queue to text_queue
• Added vignettes
• Minor fixes

dipsaus 0.0.2 (2019-11-05)

Major Changes

Shiny

• Use webpack to manage JavaScript libraries
• Added new shiny widget actionButtonStyled
• Implemented sync_shiny_inputs to synchronize among shiny inputs without causing dead-locks in UI changes
• progress2 allows debugging shiny progress instances in non- reactive context. It uses shiny::Progress in shiny reactive context, and just print out messages when shiny reactive domain is NULL

Parallel

• Implemented collapse, a parallel solution to calculate sum/mean along arrays, providing 4x speed-ups for large arrays;
• Added async_expr functions using future package for parallel evaluation of R expressions.
• Four cross-session queue types qs_queue, rds_queue, txtq_queue, redis_queue allow pushing arbitrary R objects into queue in one session and pop them from another session.

R-language

• eval_dirty works as base::eval, but supports quosures generated from rlang::quo
• match_calls match calls in a nested manner, and support changing the call arguments recursively
• %?<-% to assign default values to lhs

Minor Changes

• cat2 act as base function cat but provides different levels with different colored outputs;
• check_installed_packages, package_installed checks if package(s) are installed;
• col2hexStr convert color to hex strings that are friendly to HTML, CSS and JavaScript;
• parse_svec converts a string into integer vectors, deparse_svec converts integer vectors back into a compact string;
• drop_nulls removes invalid items within lists;
• get_cpu gets CPU types and chip-set names;
• get_ram, mem_limit2 gets total RAM size as an alternatives for mem.limits in non-windows environment;
• to_ram_size provides simple way to convert numbers to printable storage sizes in given units;
• time_delta calculates time differences and returns a number in given units.

dipsaus 0.0.1

Major Changes

• Implemented full JavaScript support for compoundInput2 as a new shiny input to
• Added utility function col2hexStr to convert color to hex value
• Added utility function match_calls to match and modify calls

Minor Changes

• Added label_color to compoundInput2 to enable colored group labels

dipsaus 0.0.0

• Initial private beta release!