Prepare for release

.github/workflows/R-CMD-fullcheck.yaml

@@ -24,14 +24,18 @@ jobs:
         config:
           - {os: macos-latest,   r: 'release'}
 
-          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release', rtools-version: '42'}
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
+          # Use 3.6 to trigger usage of RTools35
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: '3.6'}
+          # use 4.1 to check with rtools40's older compiler
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: '4.1'}
 
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
-          - {os: windows-latest,   r: '4.1', rtools-version: '40'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: '4.0'}
-          - {os: macos-latest,    r: '3.6'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: '3.5'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-2'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-3'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-4'}
 
     env:
       R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
@@ -41,20 +45,22 @@ jobs:
       R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
         with:
           r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
           http-user-agent: ${{ matrix.config.http-user-agent }}
           use-public-rspm: true
-          rtools-version: ${{ matrix.config.rtools-version }}
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
-          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck, interp=?ignore-before-r=3.6.0
+          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck
           needs: check
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
         with:
           upload-snapshots: true
+          build_args: 'c("--no-manual","--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf")'

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: rgl
-Version: 1.2.16
+Version: 1.3.0
 Title: 3D Visualization Using OpenGL
 Authors@R: c(person("Duncan", "Murdoch", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "murdoch.duncan@gmail.com"),
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Duncan", "Murdoch", role = c("aut", "cre"),
               person("Ivan", "Krylov", role = "ctb"),
               person("Michael", "Sumner", role = "ctb"),
               person("Mike", "Stein", role = "ctb"))
-Depends: R (>= 3.3.0)
+Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)
 Suggests: MASS, markdown (>= 1.12), 
           rmarkdown (>= 2.16), deldir (>= 1.0-4), orientlib, lattice, misc3d,
           magick, plotrix (>= 3.7-3), tripack, interp, alphashape3d, tcltk,

NEWS.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# rgl 1.2.16
+# rgl 1.3.0
 
 ## Major changes
 

cran-comments.md

@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
-# 1.2.8
-
-This small release is at the request of CRAN to address issues
-shown in the CRAN checks.
-
-- A call to Rf_warning() passed a variable; it now has a
-separate constant format string.
-
-- Some old documentation of arguments that were not present
-has been removed.
-
-These warnings/notes have not been addressed:
-
-- The installed package size has not been improved.
-
-- Some deprecated function warnings on MacOS are still
-present, as those functions are still needed.  I hope that
-the major changes I am in the process of making will allow
-me to address these finally, but those changes are months
-away from being done.
-
-In addition to those changes, there are some minor improvements and bug fixes mentioned in the NEWS file.
+# 1.3.0
 
+This small release is at the request of Tomas to adapt to
+upcoming changes in Rtools on Windows.  It also contains
+a number of other changes (mostly bug fixes and minor
+improvements, described in the NEWS.md file).  I ran revdep
+checks and didn't see any problems.

man/clipMesh3d.Rd

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ values without clipping.
 
 # Show the problem that minVertices solves:
 
-cube <- cube3d(col = palette.colors(6, "Accent"), meshColor = "faces")
+cube <- cube3d(col = rainbow(6), meshColor = "faces")
 
 # This function only has one argument, so it will 
 # be passed x, y and z in columns of a matrix

vignettes/rgl.Rmd

@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ with(iris, plot3d(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length,
                   type="s", col=as.numeric(Species)))
 ```
 
-\noindent
 can be used to plot three columns of the `iris` data.
 Allowed plot types include `"p", "l", "h", "s"`,
 meaning points, lines, segments from z=0, and spheres.  There's