Package developers -- Each Bioconductor release is accompanied by release notes that mention new packages and other significant project developments. For the forthcoming release we would also like to include release notes for individual packages, so that users have an easy way to survey changes in their favorite packages. To have your package release notes made available in the Bioconductor release notes, please arrange for your package to include a NEWS.Rd or NEWS file that can be parsed by the utils::news function. We'll run this command over all packages, using a 'query' argument that captures all updates more recent than the start of the current release cycle. For instance, Rsamtools in the devel branch is at version "1.11.27", so we'll get news with
utils::news(Version >= "1.11.0", "Rsamtools")
Changes in version 1.12.0:
NEW FEATURES
o BamSampler draws a random sample from BAM file records, obeying
any restriction by ScanBamParam().
USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o bamPath and bamIndicies applied to BamViews returns named
vectors.
BUG FIXES
o completely free razip, bgzip files when done.
o sortBam, indexBam fail gracefully on non-BAM input.
o headerTabix on an open TabixFile no longer reads the first
record
o scanBcfHeader provides informative error message when header
line ('#CHROM POS ...') is missing
See ?news for more detail. We will collate these files no later than Monday,
April 1.
Thanks,
Dan